Posts under ‘Palawan’

by Aaron Joel Santos
I’m in the Philippines, sitting at a six-person dining room table made of bamboo. It’s the kind of table found all across Southeast Asia, but this one is special. This one is unconvincingly strapped to the top of an old bus speeding down an unpaved highway on the island of Palawan.
Apparently, this [...]

Brooke’s Point, Palawan : This progressive town is the origin of the Pearl of Allah or the Pearl of Lao Tzu, the biggest pearl in the world.
The Tridacna shell, weighing almost 50 kilos of the clam “pearl” which measures 9.45 inches in diameter and weighs 6.4 kilograms is still being kept at the house of [...]

Honda Bay, which is littered with islands, islets, atolls and corral reefs could very well be one of this locality’s prime leisure destinations, due to a wide variety of attractions that it offers. for both foreign and local tourists.
For domestic and foreign tourists, the shallow reefs that adorn the fabulous beaches of its several islets [...]

Panoramanila Pictures Co. and Judy Ann Santos’ film “Ploning,” which was entirely shot in the picturesque Cuyo islands in Palawan, got a high recommendation, and a General Patronage (GP) classification from the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB). “Ploning,” which also highlights the beauty of the Filipino culture and the Filipina, can be [...]

By Alex Villanueva, Jr.
This paradise called Puerto Princesa, may have been declared by the national government as a Highly Urbanized City (HUC) recently, but its local leaders are bent on keeping it in the state closest to how God originally willed it to be - endowed with unadulterated natural wonders.
Blessed with the beauty and opulence [...]

Two luxury resorts in the Philippines – the El Nido Resorts in Lagen and Miniloc islands, and the Shangri-La Island Resort Mactan – are among the 81 properties in the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) region to receive the Green Hotel recognition given by the ASEAN member countries at its recent forum in [...]

City Mayor Edward Hagedorn of Puerto Princesa in Palawan said the city will soon become the country’s “Sports Tourism Capital” as efforts are well underway in making the pristine city a haven for local and foreign outdoor sports enthusiasts.
Hagedorn said that while Puerto Princesa has long been one of the favorite tourist destinations of the [...]