PUERTO PRINCESA – Continued from Hiking matters #409: At Paray-Paray campsite (In 2008 I used ‘Palay-Palay’, which was how my
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PUERTO PRINCESA – Continued from Hiking matters #408: Hiking in the rainy season makes one conservative in terms of the itinerary;
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PUERTO PRINCESA – Six years after I first climbed Mt. Mantalingajan, the highest mountain in Palawan, I came back, this
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PUERTO PRINCESA – Palawan is truly a hiker’s paradise. Yesterday, two weeks after I did the beautiful Mt. Beaufort (Hiking
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PUERTO PRINCESA – I have often lamented that I couldn’t find time to go hiking in Palawan, where the mountains
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BALI, INDONESIA – After the successful hike of two volcanoes – Gunung Batur in Bali (Hiking matters #400) and Gunung
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LOMBOK, INDONESIA – The summit assault is the most exciting part of every climb, because it is the moment when
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LOMBOK, INDONESIA – The day after we hiked Gunung Batur in Bali (see Hiking matters #400), we took the eastward
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BLUE MOUNTAINS, AUSTRALIA – We are now prepared to head back to Sydney after three amazing days in the Blue
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BLUE MOUNTAINS, AUSTRALIA – Here we are in the famed Blue Mountains of Australia – a World Heritage Site that
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