Hiking, Biking and Motorcycling

With so many islands in this area, we can arrange for you many hiking and trekking, biking and motorcycling tours between El Nido and Coron, including Culion. Whether you need a guide or want to do it solo but with good instructions and gps coordinates, we can do it for you. This can be combined … Read more

Camping and Tenting

The Philippines is a country of 7,107 islands, beach paradise after beach paradise. It is not difficult to find empty beaches where you can set up a tent for free, with walking trails through the jungle on remote islands. If you respect the environment and locals, they are most often completely cool about it. Just … Read more

Wolfgang

The first six were retouched by him and sent back to me, the rest being ones that I liked and quickly touched up myself. Carsten Only three pics by another visitor, so decided to add them to this page, but ones of evening lightning with fancy camera and pretty cool stuff. Happens fairly frequently with … Read more

Boat Operator – Thomas

This boatman is no longer be available. His primary source of income by profession, Thomas also runs a regular schedule to Coron on Fridays, 2 days, with a one day trip back leaving on Sundays. Every operator has their own contacts or relatives who have islands you can explore or people to meet and stay … Read more

Suggested itinerary and travel plans for Palawan

Map of travel routes in the Philippines, showing air, sea, and land connections.

Synopsis The Palawan area of the Philippines is the nicest, most natural, safe and devoid-of-typhoons area in the country. And the Puerto Princesa > El Nido > Coron to Manila corridor is rapidly growing as a favourite tourist route. If you are short of time, such as 12 days or less, and you like pristine … Read more

Volunteer program

This project is no longer active, but if you like you can apply to our new project on Guimaras Island. If you would like free accommodation in tent and half price off renting any equipment (if not used by guest), please apply through the usual websites such as workaway or helpx. Below is an old … Read more

Party in Manila, Ozzie brings 2 kiteboards

Back in Palawan when I was researching things to do in Manila for my website, I came across one blogger who wrote about visiting the slums. Horrid pictures of children wading up to their lips in black muck scrounging the city’s garbage in exchange for a bite to eat that day. Thought it could make … Read more

Eli Cave

Natural cave formation with layered rock surfaces in El Nido and Coron, Philippines.

About a five minute boat ride from San Miguel, you can hire a boat for about 1,500p to explore these caves and then two other islands for some fantastic snorkeling. A local Japanese Filipino can give you a guided tour of the caves. To get here you can join or book one of our private custom Palawan … Read more