Day 39

We had brunch at the Seventh-Day Adventist Hospital cafeteria. We had the budget meals for PHP40 – curried gluten dish, sayote dish, banana blossom with coconut milk and ginger, another gluten dish with tomato sauce and rice. We also had soy milk locally made—very sweet. We went back there for dinner and met the manager. We told her about the Adventist food stall in Bacolod which is in the downtown food court and very, very successful.

We transferred lodging to Puerto Pension. The room has tv, private bath and air-con. The materials used for the building are all local—woven mats for walls and ceiling, bamboo strips for roof (very creative). We watched movies on tv while waiting for the heat in the afternoon to pass.

Puerto Princesa City is very clean. The mayor (half German) has made a tremendous effort to make the city trash free by providing trash cans similar to the ones back home.