Philippines: Island hopping in El Nido!

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Translated from the French original — read it here.

"Island hopping" means doing a circuit of the islands around El Nido. There are tours A, B, C and D. Each one takes in about five islands — the most popular ones, out of the 45 that surround the town of El Nido. I did tours A and C, over two days.

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It was so good. I really did get film-set scenery — literally, in fact, for one of the islands, which was used for the last Jason Bourne (the one without Matt Damon); the closing scene was shot here. Every lagoon was different and all of them were genuinely stunning: little caves, little beaches, coral, clownfish. Paradise.

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Icing on the cake, lunch was included — and it was no afterthought. Grilled meat and grilled fish, if you please :-) , all of it cooked right there. Yum!

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