Honeymoon in Palawan: Palawan Museum

Palawan Museum and Plaza Cuartel (Travel Date: April 24, 2018)

This is my last post about our honeymoon trip in Palawan. If you haven't read my previous posts, here are the links for your convenience:

PALAWAN MUSEUM

Palawan Museum is a small museum located in the center of Puerto Princesa. It looked like a little government office and if not for the sign "Palawan Museum", we wouldn't have found the place.

But even if this museum is a bit small, it has a lot of interesting things to offer, showing a bit of history, not only of Palawan, but of the Philippines as well.

Some artifacts

Old tribal version of a backpack

Native bags and baskets

More bags and baskets

Hubby trying to understand the board

Write up about "Baybayin", which is an old form of Filipino writing

A cute story of a proposal.
This has got to be my favorite write-up among all the ones I've seen in the museum.

I love this piece! It's an old tablet that has writings in Baybayin.

More articles regarding the old language

Sea Corals in different forms

Interesting piece

Different type of seeds

Ancient items

Hunting devices

Another interesting piece

I love this still-life presentation of tribal babaylan (I think)

More baskets

Old-fashioned hair accessories

Vases

This one is a huge shell. And you can touch it, too.

PLAZA CUARTEL

Nothing much to see in Plaza Cuartel but I believe this park has been a part of American World War. Pretty historic, right? It somehow reminded me of small spot in Intramuros. Here we just took advantage of the quietness of the place and took a little rest before heading back home to our hotel.

Beautiful front of the plaza. Very Intramuros, right?

After our City Tour, we went back home to our hotel to fix ourselves and prepare for our flight back home.

Our Palawan trip has got to be the most memorable travel we have ever done up to date. My heart's so full of the stories and experiences, like I really wished I could do them all again. In my heart I really wished for more chances of travel like this. As I type this extro, I can't help but shed a little tear because it feels like saying goodbye again to Palawan. You see, when you are in a happy place, sometimes you wish it to last. But all I could do now is to wish again, that someday, I may go back to Palawan again. I wish by that time, I am with my family escpecially my little one. I want them to also see the beauty of Palawan.

Cheers to more travel experiences!

Till my next escapade.

Love,

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