Yap a quiet destination in July 2007
Relaxing in Yap and spending your time at the Manta Ray Bay Hotel is a very pleasant vacation. The hotel is beautiful right down to its pool and picturesque Malaysian Junk boat restaurant parked right outside the pool. The rooms are nice and the only thing lacking for some of you may be TV. However, they do have a DVD/TV with some movie rentals.
Trader's Ridge Resort supports the local heritage culture with a Hawaiian Cultural Center type of layout. Just up the hill from Manta Ray Bay Hotel it has GREAT home grown vegetables and spices and the best unusual baby spinach you will ever taste. Oh the food! Incredible Mangrove Crab, and if you are incredibly lucky a once in a life time taste treat Coconut Crab, a crab a crab lover would pay a $100's a plate not the $20's when they are available brought in by request from the outer islands.
If you go there send ahead for the possibility of this taste treat. Imagine a crab that feasts on coconut and other crabs. Its a big one and they are becoming rare since the islanders love their taste. www.tradersridge.com or toll free USA: 877-350-1300, resv@tradersridge.com. Built by a California Doctor it looks like it's right out of a southern mansion or a 1800's Bahama hotel. I ate there twice in my week for the pleasure of the veggies and the wild taste of Mangrove crab.
As for the diving hard corals with unusual black and grey reef sharks that like to just chill in the sand and I was able to be up to two feet away from them they are so use to divers in the area. As far as Mantas go you need to go January to March not July when I went. I did not see any, but the owner said he caught a glimse of one.
This island gets more storms than Palau so avoid the rainy season unlike me and go in October when the Philippines are great and when specials abound. I can't wait to go myself to dive the Philippines and another side trip to Palau and if the money holds out back for a few more days in Truk.
Enjoy, just be prepared for miserable hot Continental flights and really hot airports in Truk. The weather was nice in the low 80's in July, so I enjoyed my entire trip being from 100's in Las Vegas.
Relaxing in Yap and spending your time at the Manta Ray Bay Hotel is a very pleasant vacation. The hotel is beautiful right down to its pool and picturesque Malaysian Junk boat restaurant parked right outside the pool. The rooms are nice and the only thing lacking for some of you may be TV. However, they do have a DVD/TV with some movie rentals.
Trader's Ridge Resort supports the local heritage culture with a Hawaiian Cultural Center type of layout. Just up the hill from Manta Ray Bay Hotel it has GREAT home grown vegetables and spices and the best unusual baby spinach you will ever taste. Oh the food! Incredible Mangrove Crab, and if you are incredibly lucky a once in a life time taste treat Coconut Crab, a crab a crab lover would pay a $100's a plate not the $20's when they are available brought in by request from the outer islands.
If you go there send ahead for the possibility of this taste treat. Imagine a crab that feasts on coconut and other crabs. Its a big one and they are becoming rare since the islanders love their taste. www.tradersridge.com or toll free USA: 877-350-1300, resv@tradersridge.com. Built by a California Doctor it looks like it's right out of a southern mansion or a 1800's Bahama hotel. I ate there twice in my week for the pleasure of the veggies and the wild taste of Mangrove crab.
As for the diving hard corals with unusual black and grey reef sharks that like to just chill in the sand and I was able to be up to two feet away from them they are so use to divers in the area. As far as Mantas go you need to go January to March not July when I went. I did not see any, but the owner said he caught a glimse of one.
This island gets more storms than Palau so avoid the rainy season unlike me and go in October when the Philippines are great and when specials abound. I can't wait to go myself to dive the Philippines and another side trip to Palau and if the money holds out back for a few more days in Truk.
Enjoy, just be prepared for miserable hot Continental flights and really hot airports in Truk. The weather was nice in the low 80's in July, so I enjoyed my entire trip being from 100's in Las Vegas.
