El Nido is a first class municipality in the province of the Palawan. It is 420 kilometers southwest of Manila and 238 kilometers northeast of Puerto Princesa, the capital of Palawan. It came from a Spanish word El Nido, which means nest in the English language. It was named after the multitude of nests you can see on the marble and limestone cliffs of the island – the sanctuary of different tropical birds. These nests are edible and used as the main ingredient of a Nido soup.