MANILA - Palawan, over the past two years, was struck not only by one but two crises the devastating pandemic that halted its tourism activities and the catastrophic Typhoon Odette that battered its towns last December. For the most of 2020 and 2021, it either only accepted tourists under a travel bubble set-up or limit them to local visitors. By the end of 2021, "Odette," the strongest to hit the country last year, battered the province. "We tried to open tourism last year in 2021 with San Vicente and then Covid happened again, the whole Holy Week during the Delta surge, then Odette. If you were here in December you will see the effect of Odette on San Vicente, El Nido, and most of the northern part," Palawan Tourism Council President Rey Felix Rafols told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) in an interview. Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park (PNA photo by Joyce Rocamora) "Sobrang devastated tapos 'yong bridge namin nasira. Roxas was the worst