My Palawan Trip: Coron Part 3

Us on our last day in Coron

One thing that we always try to figure out is the food. Since Philippines is predominantly Christian community, it's kinda hard to find a Muslim restaurant there. All we had was biscuits, instant noodles, fruits and some instant boxed food we brought from home. Since canned food can't passed through the Manila airport.

But we're lucky two of the tours we took serves no meat at all, just crabs and fish and seaweed so at least during those tours we could eat rice.

From what I read online from other people experiences in Coron, there are no Muslim restaurant or eateries. But we tried to ask the locals anyway since we found few Muslims runs a grocery store there. but to no avail. So the night we went to Maquinit Hotsprings, this tricycle driver happened to be Muslim and promised to bring us to a Muslim food stall on our last day in Coron.

The Tricycle guy, Abdul Rahman named his tricycle after his first daughter.

So for those who are planning to go to Coron, look for this food stall nearby the boat jetty. There's a lot of other food stall so kinda hard if we have to find it ourselves. So i took a picture and the name of the owner so other people could find this stall in the future.

This lady name is Isnaiah.

Her food stall address : Shop no 37, Building No 5

Phone number : Smart - 639 097532074

Probably you can call her and ask for directions.

All are local food but not much different from Malaysians local food. 

Just they use a lot of coconut than we used to.

We took 3 kinds of chicken since we haven't had meat for 7 days, one kind of fish,  2 kinds of veggies with rice and all costs only 310 peso.

 After that, we still have time and the tricycle driver decided to show us their newly built mosque. It is located up on a hill on the way to Mount Tapyas.

The tricycle driver(the red shirt) introduce us to the Imam of the mosque. They seems very excited of the construction of the first mosque in Coron.Telling us up until now, there are almost 200 Muslims in Coron.

The mosque also is a place where they teach young kids how to read the Quran and other religious classes. And they wish for donations to make the place a proper religious institution. So for those who plan to come to Coron, you are welcome to visit and give a little donation. They will definitely appreciate it.

Even though not 100% completed, its already been used at the time and I believe during the time I write this, it must be completed and ready to be used.

I wish to go there again on my next trip to Coron.

 So after that the driver took us back to our hotel and we took a van to the airport.

 Busuanga Airport, Coron.

Flight delay is common here, during the time, our flight delayed for almost 2 hours.

Luckily it doesn't affect our consecutive flights in Manila.

 Rather small airport..

  ...with a small landstrip.

So that's a wrap on my Coron post and Palawan trip.
Might not be the best storytelling post and I'm not very good at expressing my experience but all I can say these places are worth visiting if you have more time in your hand.

I'd say Puerto Princesa 3 days, El Nido 4-5 days and Coron probably a week.
That is if you are okay with 5-8 hours of land travel (bus or van or even motorcycle if you're up for it).
And 8hours boat ride.
But if you just want to explore Coron, just take a flight directly from Manila.

Thank God for this little experience.
Now I'm itching for another trip. InsyaAllah, soon. Wish me luck.:)

My Palawan Trip: Coron Part 2 - Island Escapades

There are few things people can do/go when in Coron.

1. Kayangan Lake.

2. Mt Tapyas

3. Safari Tour in Calauit

4. Shipwreck snorkelling tour/Coral garden

5. Maquinit Hotspring

6. Malcapua/Banana Island

And we only had 2 full days in Coron means only 2 trips to choose.

We already took the Kayangan Lake tour the previous day. And from what we see, we're no longer interested in Shipwreck and coral garden thought it was gonna be more of the same as what we saw yesterday. but we figured out we're wrong at the end of the day when our next room neighbor told us the shipwreck was totally visible you could stand on part of the boat and the Coral Garden was really a garden. Totally different from our trip to the Kayangan Lake tour.

I do want to hike 700steps of Mt Tapyas and see the sunset view, but we're too tired from the previous day trip. Dena was not so fond of the idea so I'm not leaning on it since we have other options.

The Safari Tour is too far (4hours van ride) and too expensive.

And we plan to go to the Hotspring later during the day. So we took the Island Escapade tour.

And thank God we did. This tour is a 2 hour boat ride from Coron and consists of 3 islands.

First we went to Malcapuya Island.
All these pictures I took from my old HTC One X phone. The grandpa of the One series. But still I think they turned out quite good. The bright sunlight really makes it possible to capture the moment as it is.

I wish I had one whole day to spend here.

Though I love the super clear water, I couldn't stay too long since it's super hot at the time.

I literally burned myself.

2. Banana Island

Another delicious seafood lunch being prepared.

Here I have the chance to go snorkeling for a bit.

3. Next and the last one is Bulog Dos Island.

Then back to Coron main island.

Then as planned we went to Maquinit Hotspring. I haven't been to any hotsprings actually so it was a nice experience for me. It's quite a stunning place with the hanging lamp decorations and everything. But I couldn't take a lot of night pictures using my phone. Most of it in Dena's camera.

So we had our last breakfast the next day in one of the gazebos and just chit chatting while waiting for our van to depart to the airport.

To be honest, 3 days are not enough to be spent in Coron, there's so much thing to do and explore and experience. If I were to choose, I might replace the Kayangan Lake Tour with the shipwreck tour, and I want to hike Mt Tapyas and wait for the sunset.

Time was not on our side but all and all we had fun, and I'm truly satisfied.

I'll definitely come back, fly from Manila straight to Coron next time.