The remote area between El Nido and Coron is truly beautiful and pristine, speckled with 52 islands around Linapacan alone. Unfortunately, its remoteness means that it is less developed in terms of fancy resorts.
You will notice Coron underlined with yellow in the top right, with El Nido bottom left and Sibaltan, where our multiday tours start or end (include a one hour private van transfer to or from El Nido.
The area in the green dashed line is the Rustic Zone, with accommodation only basic beach huts, tenting on deserted islands or beaches, or at best a simple aircon hotel, Dastan. The closest nice resorts outside of this rustic zone are Resort1 closer to El Nido and Two Seasons or Coco Beach closer to Coron. There are plenty of other nice resorts in the Coron area, and you can easily extend you multiday expedition to include many beautiful sites in that area as well.
If the options in the rustic zone do not suit your fancy, you can take the fast boat to whip through the area while visiting as many sites as possible along the way (such as the Sea Turtles), but if you do decide to stay at least one night in this zone, you should take our regular banca boat because the fast boat does not have any cooking facilities on it and the food available in that area is almost negligible.
On the other hand, you might be intrigued to experience life in this beautiful, remote area like a local, or perhaps like Tarzan, perhaps going as far as tenting on a deserted island or beach, or even a step further with a survival experience. Learn how to catch fish like a local, or let them catch it for you, prepare it for you, get the fire going and leave you to yourselves for one evening. The world is your oyster!
Why the Tarzan years
In my quest to start a paradise beach resort, I stumbled onto this remote area and was fortunate to be granted free stay on a beach if I started developing it with the help of volunteers.
Near the end I had a solar panel on the roof, wind turbine to charge at night, when it was usually much windier, 12V fan to keep me cool at night, comfortable mattress and everything else I felt I needed for this type of existence. But in the beginning it was baking in the tent, midnight dips in the ocean to cool me off, swimming slowly against the current whenever I wanted to relieve myself.
The locals basically live the same way on these remote islands, and the beach huts offered to visitors passing through are of a similar calibre.
The most famous of these beach camps is Linapacan Tourist Camp (above photo), but with capacity for 60+ people it can become a bit of a party joint for the budget, group tour backpackers (especially during the peak seasons), although there are more quiet and secluded camps around. Here can be found other examples of accommodation in the rustic zone.
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