Getting Around in Coron

 

One very pleasant thing about Coron town is that it's not heavily populated by tourists. Actually, not even by locals. Not heavily populated, period. There are hardly any cars on the road and everyone goes around in tricycles.  Coron tricyles with their jeepney-like cabs are bigger than their Manila counterparts, which only have a sidecar for two people.  

Sunz en Coron, Busuanga

At the top of our accommodation list for Coron were The Village Lodge and Princess of Coron. The former only because I've read reviews of it from marketmanila.com, and the latter because Liza's friends stayed there already.  I was still going to do more research, but then Cecilia bumped into good friend and presidential dive instructor, Gigi Santos, and Gigi recommended staying at "this new place, Sunz en Coron". Since we trust Gigi's recommendations, Cecilia promptly checked them on the internet and booked our rooms.

Island Hopping in Coron, Palawan

We were told that the thing to do in this part of  Palawan was to go wreck diving, island hopping and snorkeling.  Cecilia and her family wanted to do the wreck dives so they went a day earlier to get that done with before the rest of us arrived. We all decided we were going to snorkel around the different spots of Coron island, visit the former leper colony of Culion for some history, and just experience Coron town.

To get to this northern part of Palawan, we flew into Busuanga, which is a short 40-minute plane ride from Manila.