PALAWAN

Palawan Island is the largest island in Philippines . The island is half desert, so is still undeveloped. You can enjoy the jungle, mountains, and white beaches. Palawan Island has been rated by National Geographic Traveler magazine as the best Southeast Asia region in 2007, and the 13th best island in the world! It is the most biodiverse islands in the Philippines. Palawan is an archipelago with 1,780 islands on the western part. Due to its amazing landscapes and high bio-diversity, Palawan island is known as “The Last Ecological Frontier of the Philippines”.

The northern part is characterized by incredible clear waters, white beaches, and many species of flora and fauna. Here the most commonly visited places include El Nido and Taytay are characterized by limestone cliffs , underwater world with many species of tropical fish and corals and are five species of endangered sea turtles. Jungle has about 100 different species of birds! So…this is a really amazing tropical destination to relax and enjoy yourself!!!

Main destinations are the capital Puerto Princesa & El nido on the north of the island and also Coron island where you can relax and do good snorkeling and diving. Out of the many beautiful places Philipines has to offer , with lot of dilemma and confusion we chose to visit Puerto Princesa , Elnido & Nacpan Beach ! We wished to visit Coron Island which is so Instagram Famous but due to lack of time we saved it for another trip !

WHERE IS PALAWAN?

GET THERE PALAWAN ISLAND

You can reach Palawan Island from Manila and other areas of the Philippines. It is connected by air from the international as well as domestic airports at Cebu, Manila and Caticlan (Boracay) through four gateways: El Nido Airport, Puerto Princesa City Airport, Cesar Lim Rodriguez Airport in Taytay and Francisco Reyes Airport in Busuanga. There are also ships from Manila to ports in Coron and Puerto Princesa. IMPORTANT: you cannot fly internally from Puerto Princesa to El Nido, so you must take one day shuttle van transfer (2 days return) if you want to visit both areas.

GETTING TO PALAWAN

From/To Manila
Air Philippines, Cebu Pacific and Philippine Airlines fly to Puerto Princesa City every day. Flying time is 1 hour and 15 minutes.

From/To Cebu
Cebu Pacific fly to Puerto Princesa City. Flying time is 1 hour and 15 minutes.

From/To Busuanga and El Nido
Southeast Asian Airlines operates flights to /from Puerto Princesa. Flying time is 1 hour from/ to Busuanga and 30 minutes from/ to El Nido.

From Caticlan (Boracay)
Southeast Asian Airlines from Caticlan on tuesdays and back on friday.