{"id":106,"date":"2014-05-17T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogtest.cowebtech.ca\/?p=106"},"modified":"2019-10-02T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T19:44:15","slug":"el-nido-back-to-puerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"El Nido back to Puerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took the lovely bus ride back to Puerto yesterday, as I had a flight to catch to Manila this morning.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The ride was a bit better on the way back. It took 5 hours instead of 6 and it departed on time. &nbsp;This time I spent most of the journey reading. &nbsp;After you see one hour of jungle, the next 4 hours kind of look the same! &nbsp;The only annoyance is the driver who loves his horn. &nbsp;I took a break from reading when he was leaning on the horn. &nbsp;He was trying to overtake this truck.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-Av9LgOU_8As\/U3awF-1DsNI\/AAAAAAAAFk4\/G3eCZ4cI-ek\/s1600\/blogger-image-1779451825.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-Av9LgOU_8As\/U3awF-1DsNI\/AAAAAAAAFk4\/G3eCZ4cI-ek\/s1600\/blogger-image-1779451825.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">It&#8217;s a bit hard to see in this picture as I took it with the iPad as I was reading an eBook. &nbsp;It&#8217;s the back of a truck that is just packed with Filipinos going to Puerto. &nbsp;The problem is there are not many transportation options along this road, so if someone owns a truck or van, everyone packs into it. &nbsp;This one only had people inside it, some have people sitting on the top of them as well!<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">You can probably see from the picture that the van has an absence of leg room. &nbsp;These things seem to be made for smaller people. &nbsp;The good thing is that the air conditioning worked well though.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">You can also see the catholic presence, as everywhere else in the Philippines, with the image on the roof. &nbsp;On the road there are signs with the Lord&#8217;s Prayer. &nbsp;The way people drive, I think they may need it!<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the lovely bus ride back to Puerto yesterday, as I had a flight to catch to Manila this morning. The ride was a bit better on the way back. It took 5 hours instead of 6 and it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/?p=106\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[103,104,105],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines","tag-el-nido","tag-eulen-joy","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}