ABW June 2017

making up one quarter of all the islands on the
archipelago, with 1,780. Palawan has one wondrous
statistic in that it is home to only 1% of the total
country’s population, which has passed over the
100,000,000 mark in recent years. It is home to the
endemic one-toed otter in the remoter rivers, the
only place on earth that this creature is found.
6. Where in these islands
do you find the only pod of
Irrawaddy dolphins found
in the whole country? It is
in the Malampaya Sound
in the NW of the Palawan
main island. Altogether 6
types of dolphins live in
Philippine waters, and the
most exciting to see is the Spinner dolphin leaping
and performing its acrobatic tricks especially when
they swim across the bows of boats.
Did you know that
there are vampire beings
in Capiz in Panay island,
but that no-one can
prove it?
‘Philippine -Time’. In these luscious tropical islands
time dissolved long ago in a quagmire of endlessness.
When the clock strikes midnight no-one will have
made it to the spot to witness the vampires, and will
only arrive long after the vampires have left to go
about their nightly chores! Proof is in the pudding,
but time went down the plughole many moons past!
8. Did you know that the Filipino city driver is
obsessed with blowing his horn! In fact the average
taxi driver blows his horn 178,000 times in one year.
However, herein lies a formula … when entering a
taxi tell him you will give a P20 tip, but that every
time he blows his horn you will deduct P1 from the
tip … the result is always the same … at the end
of a trip the taxi driver will always owe YOU money!
7. Did you know that there are vampire beings in
Capiz in Panay island, but that no-one can prove
it? Herein lies yet another tale, since they come out
exactly at midnight … but this is to their advantage
since they are protected by what is well known as
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