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“Authentic experience.”Those were among the words our tour operator used to distinguish Taytay Bay island-hopping over the far more popular tour offerings at El Nido, the widely known tourism hub on the north end of Palawan in the Philippines. The description struck me as particularly...

Our banka glided across a protected cove toward rock drapery spilling from the forested cliff above. From a distance the cave entrance appeared merely as another fold in the rock; but, as we slipped into its darkness, our boatman’s headlamp revealed a tunnel that opened...