Waiting time at restaurants
by yann.ng
Be prepared to wait for at least 15 to 20 minutes before your order will be served. As we were travelling in a group, at times we waited 45 minutes before anyone of us are served our meals.
After 1-2 days of experience at various restaurants, we've learnt to takeaway some food from the roadside stalls before we go to the restaurants to order our food. So we hungry divers will not be starving or over-starved by the time our food arrives.
Vendors and women offering massage on the beach
by thomyorke
When you're in White beach, expect people to offer you wrist/ankle bands and locals offering you massage. Some could be annoying because some of them would force you to say yes. So be ready to say 'No' hundred times in a day if you don't like massage. You can use 'Hindi Po' meaning 'No', Po is what we affix to be polite.
A different type of Halloween
by Restless-in-kl
PG residents celebrate Halloween on 1 Nov. Instead of dressing up and going for some trick or treating, kids here and adults too go caroling and making a lot of noise with makeshift drums made of tin cans, rattles using bottles filled with seashells to go with their singing.
To show your appreciation, give them some coins. After all, they have sung for their supper!
what i forgot to bring!
by icoy
underwater camera. yup. i forgot this. would have been nice to have taken photos of the little blue fishies. :) sunglasses! i had to buy a pair of imitation oakleys. and guess what... the color bled with my sweat! Hundred bucks a pair.
Wolley ball on White beach,Puerto Galera
by knox
On mondays you can take a trip to white Beach outside Puerto Galera to play on the beach.If players is enought there is a nations tournament on the beach and a lot of beer drinking and food etc.And if your not into playing White beach is a great place for swimming eating and getting some sun!