Palawan is covered in plants and trees that bear delicious fruit year round, pineapple, bananas, coconuts, avocado, assorted berries, but one of my very favorite are mangoes. Yes while ripe mangoes are usually my favorite, but I've grown to like green mangoes. Although they are a little sour with a little salt they become quiet enjoyable. The only down side is that green mangoes don't fall from the tree, only ripe mangoes do. So in order to get them you need to climb.
One day while returning home with the children from my village, we were passing under a a few mango trees and decided to stop for a snack. Dyubim and I climbed up and started shaking the branches to cause them to fall. Things were going great, mangoes were dropping one after the other to the kid below us. Moving to another branch, I began to shake it but the mango wouldn't come lose, so I did the obvious thing, shake harder. Bad move. What I didn't see was the bee's nest further out on the branch. That second shake sent a number of angry bees, stingers first, straight toward me. One got me on the crown of my head, another on my hand, but the one that brought the most swelling and later much laughter to all who saw it, was the bee that selected my upper lip as his target. A little swelling at first turned it to something....well just look at the picture. PS: Jungle remedy for swelling: heat a banana leaf over flame for 3 second and directly apply to swollen area. Thanks Meyini.
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