I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 475. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about rice terraces and

caverns, hanging coffins, and an island named the best island in the world as we return like MacArthur to the Philippines.

I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not today. Welcome to the Amateur Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen and now with no

further ado let's talk about the Philippines. I'd like to welcome the show

Julie Longland who is coming to us from rich and

Julie get a move on dot blog spot.com and Julie has come to talk to us about the Philippines. Julie, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Chris.

Now, I say we're talking about the Philippines. We did a show recently on a southern portion of the Philippines on Sabou, the whole and some of the areas down there,

but you're taking us to some place different.

Where are you taking us, first of all?

Right, so there's a couple of different places that I went to in the Philippines that I want to talk about.

One is on the northern part of Luzon, which is the big main island that Manila is on.

I was in the Cordilleras mountain region,

which is kind of in the central part of that big island.

And then also another island off the coast just north of Borneo called Balawan, which is also part of the Philippines, but quite a remote part of the Philippines.

As you were pitching me this show that there's a specific reason why you were

pitching Palawan right now that it was just recently received some recognition as a place to go.

Yeah, I was very surprised about this because I'm actually Filipino American and so I've been hearing about Balawan for a long time, but someone recently told me that apparently

Kondenasr readers recently voted it, the best island in the world.

So it was really quite a surprise to hear something that had been kind of

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