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Palawan
Beaches |
There you go folks, a big snazzy map of what tourists local and foreign call “Paradise”, or “The Last Frontier”. I got the map in a website that caters to tourists, which pretty much sums up the myopic view of many people when it comes to the island. The thing is, Palawan is more than a tourist’s Paradise, and more than an investor or landgrabber’s Last Frontier: it is the Palawan of Palaweños. What gets ignored in the bird’s eye view of the island is the people, and when that happens, one cannot claim to really know the place.Also, a lot of the things that puzzle tourists and other visitors to Palawan may be explained by going deeper into its social profile. For instance, why are the roads so bad outside of Puerto Princesa City? Why are there so few, if any, big factories in the whole island? Why does there seem to be so little “political instability” in its city center, unlike in Metro Manila? These are queries that will not get a satisfactory answer by spending a month’s vacation in Palawan, or with a cursory browsing of available literature on it.
This is what I aim to do, fill in this knowledge vacuum that comes with the one-sided promotion of the Palawan as either of two things: a prime tourist destination (fine white beaches and fresh seafood), or a prospecting area for foreign and local mining companies (rich in metallic minerals and fossil fuels). A lot of information are floating about on the net regarding more serious concerns on Palawan, but they come from official (i.e., government) sources or “pure” non-government environmentalists, thus they come through generally as official state propaganda or as a diffused litany of parochial concerns. There also does not seem to be any effort to put all resource materials on Palawan together to present a more comprehensive and objective view of one of the most interesting places in the Philippines.
Tall project, huh? But this is where you, a fan or native of Palawan, comes in. You can help by doing any or all of the following:
That’s all folks, welcome to Palawan!
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Getaway
Music |
Groove
along with Smooth Jazz tracks to go with awesome Palawan scenery |
"Lake Union" by Tony Gable & 206 "Catching The Sun" by Spyro Gyra "Promenade" by Peter White "Morning Island" by Sadao Watanabe "Caribbean Breeze" by The Rippingtons "Can You Imagine" by David Benoit "Breezin" by George Benson "Crazy For You" by Earl Klugh "She Could Be Mine" by Dave Grusin "Back In The Day" by Brian Culbertson "Sunrise" by Jay Beckenstein "One For The Road" by Acoustic Alchemy |