We'd heard El Nido was a bit special but nothing prepared us for the sight that greeted us as we looked across the bay this morning.
Dozens of immense limestone stacks sitting out in the bright Blue South China Sea for as far as the eye can see.
Stunning, just stunning.
Chartered a small boat to visit a few of the larger ones, and if anything they're even more impressive close up. Also called in at the imaginatively named Big Lagoon, a piece of paradise only surpassed by the neighbouring - even more imaginatively named - Small Lagoon, which we agreed was one of the most drop dead gorgeous places any of us has ever visited.
Only accessible via a four foot gap in the rock, it's more like a small lake than a lagoon, surrounded by towering jagged stone spires, which over 250 million years have been sculptured into what can best be described as a 100ft high set of dentures.
Not happy with the digs we'd ended up in when arriving late yesterday, so on the advice of Dale, an amiable Geordie, we checked into a brilliant little eco-place which at 4 quid a night is about six hundred per cent cheaper.
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