「 The Islands of Coron, The Philippines 」
C H A P T E R F O U RDuring our time in the town of Coron, we stayed in a beautiful, gorgeous hostel called Hop Hostel. It's located on the northwest part of the town, up the hill, and offers absolutely mind-blowing views from the rooftop terrace at the top of the building! Even better yet is that the rooms start at a modest price of 679 pesos (about £9 or $11) per night! The staff here were so friendly, and the facilities are some of the best I've experienced of any hostel (and trust me I've stayed in a lot!). With a cinema room, dedicated kitchen, restaurant and rooftop bar, you'll have everything you need. It's also easy to meet people here, and book island trips from the reception. We also rented our motorcycles from the hostel which were delivered straight to our front door!
The day after I arrived back from the island tour, I decided to see what the island had to offer. I hopped on our bikes, donned my raincoat (as there are likely short tropical showers through the day) and set off to our first destination: Cabo Beach, which was east of the town. The trail was tough, particularly by bike, and I wouldn't recommend it to novice riders at all. The route took us through Coron, by the docks and up into the hills where the road eventually disappeared and slowly turned into mud and rocks where one wrong move would send me and my bike to muddy ground. After a wet drive, I was determined to make it to Cabo beach despite the rough road. I used my trusty offline maps (courtesy of Maps.me on my Samsung S8) as the signal was pretty bad.
It directed me off the main "path" and towards the sea, and I followed it until I came to a small dusty car park where I paid a measly 10 pesos for parking. As soon as I had parked and turned the ignition off, as if by magic, the rain completely stopped and the clouds parted making way for the much sought after sunshine. I made my way down to the sandy shores of Cabo Beach and chilled for a bit with a coffee from a nearby shack. The views were great, with actual Coron island in the distance slightly obscured by the mist. I decided to set my drone up and fly it above the beach, getting some stunning views of the beach and the surrounding jungle!
After taking in the sights and as the clouds came back, I got back on my bike and drove past the muddy trail and back through Coron to try and make it to the modest waterfalls of Concepcion, which is about 50km due east of Cabo Beach. This took about an hour and a half and for this trip I was joined again by my colleague who I met back at the hostel. Luckily the clouds started to clear for this trip and allowed us a stunning ride through the Philippine countryside. And what a ride it was. The roads were very well maintained, which was surprising as we were on just a small island. But moreso, the views were incredible, with the road snaking through the mountains which made the hour that it took for us to get to the waterfall feel like simply just seconds. We passed rice paddies, jungle, palm tree forests, sea inlets and shear cliff edges and this view was all completely free. Apart from the bike rental of course, which was a very meagre 450 pesos per day (about £7 or $9).
We arrived at Concepcion falls which is a modest waterfall just a ten minute trek through the jungle. A small dam was built to form a lake at the base of the waterfalls, and makes for a very refreshing swim! After a few photographs around the area, we drove back, stopping for lunch and eventually heading back to the hostel. My last few days here was fast approaching, so I had a couple of things in mind - the natural hot springs, and climbing the locally famed Mt. Tapyas at sunset. Keep up for my next blog for the Final Chapter in Coron!
The Islands of Coron, The Philippines
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🌏 | Coron, The Philippines
📷 | Canon PowerShot SX730 HS/DJI Spark
🎨 | Lightroom Mobile edits used
Over the next few weeks I'll be trekking through The Philippines and I'll be sharing with you my stories, emotions, advice and tips about this wonderful place. I will be doing this while sharing my photographs with all of you too. I sincerely hope this inspires you to go out there and travel!
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Very beautiful, thanks for sharing. Love the drone photos.
Thanks @programmingvalue, that's very kind. You've always been so loyal here <3
Is that you on the tree? You look like a dumbass
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Actually it's my companion but I'm obligated to pass the message on to him
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Lol...the people are so salty...
wow, what amazing photos this amazing, I would love to go there, if you can travel like this, I recommend you personally if you have the opportunity to visit the Amazon in Venezuela is incredible, or the roraima that is in brazil very good images you can find on those sites .
greetings from Ecuador.
I'd absolutely love to. Might just have to visit after I do some research on where to go. Have you been there before?
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WOW amazing looks
Hehe thanks so much @cityofstars! Hopefully more amazing looks tomorrow :)
Nice pictures. I need a drone NOW (and this beautiful landscape :) )!
One of the best buys of this year tbh! Definitely worth it if you use it to its potential :)
I Love it you are an amazing photografer
A very nice place to be! Thanks for the pictures.
No problem, thanks for stopping by and commenting :)
Excellent post. Success.
Thanks very much
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Upvoted.
Thanks hugely!
Thank you for a nice blog about this place!! :-_)
Me and my boyfriend are going to Philippines. We are starting our tour like this: Dumaugete just to land there and then going directly to – Apo Island 3 days – Siquijor Island 5 days – Oslob 6 days – Boracay 5 days – Coron for 4 1/5 days. What do you think about that? All the flights are booked and we are looking forward to this so much! I am little sad that we arent going to El nido in Palawan 🙁 but we cant do evrything…
We have open water, so looking forward to dive! But I can read that you are saying that Coron town is something else then the island? I really want to see and enjoy diffrent Islands or the beauty of Coron, so where to stay? Its our last place in our tour 🙁 Coron and then back to Manila and home 🙁 our flight back to Manila is going 16:00 and back home to Scandinavia is going 20:00, so I really hope we make it!
Hello! I'm heading to sleep now but in the morning I'd be glad to give some pointers to your trip! I think its an excellent tour around the Philippines but my only concern is 6 days in Oslob - I would suggest splitting the days across Cebu island (such as visiting Kawasan or Bohol!). There's not much to do in Oslob outside of the whalesharks. When are you going to the Philippines? Boracay is closed until the 26th October but hopefully you'll be there after!
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again these images are so insane!! need to leave the U.S. ASAP haha
Hehe thanks so much! Well arguably I'm sure there are some gorgeous spots in the US too!
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Love the waterfall. Sooo blue
Yeah it's so cold though if you wanted to swim!
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I can bring my blanket then :)
Oh wow I expected a photo or two, not this. Amazing! My next destination for sure!
I'll try to take as many as I can to get a good perspective of the place I'm writing about :) within reason though. The internet in the Philippines is pretty abhorrent so uploading 8mb photos takes a while! Glad it's inspired you to visit.
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Awesome !
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the read.
all brilliant photos
nicely captured !
Thank you for the kind comments! Much appreciated :)
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You got some amazing photography skills. I specially loved that blue water's picture. keep flourishing:)
Thanks so much, I'll definitely try!
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Very interesting post! Thank you for the great photos!
Thanks so much @sweettais!!
Great pictures. It seems it is a hot place but like a paradise
Very hot indeed but you're on the money about it being paradise.
Stunningly beautiful💕
Thanks! 🙏
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nice...
Thanks!
That's really wonderfull nature!
Its a hugely gorgeous place :)
OMG! REALLY BEAUTIFUL PLACES!... THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR, POST IS AMAZING!
Many thanks friend, thanks for your enthusiasm!
waw it's very amazing thank you for this picturs you make me happy ^^, Very beautiful, thanks for sharing.
Aww glad it made you smile!
Beautiful, thank you so much for sharing.. I have friends in the don det islands, as I've never traveled around Indonesia, it is def. on my bucket list!!
Glad it is, there's a lot to see out in the Philippines!
I would love to visit that place soon too. The view was really beautiful. It's already listed on my bucket list!!!
Hey @seetheworld.sgp Amazing Pictures. I visited your Instagram as well. Man, I would absolutely love to visit the Philippines.
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hopefully, it won't be another Boracay.
very good photos
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Thanks for these amazing photos of Coron. It's really my dream to visit this place. <3 I can't wait this coming summer!!!!
You're going there this summer?? Lucky you! All the best for your travels and take care, no doubt you'll love it there.
Wow stunning shots and the place is amazing. The rumors are true that in the Philippines there are so many worth visiting place that you would feel amazed.
So what I like about your post is that you have a knack for photos which is actually great 'coz you were able to impart to us what Coron Palawan has to offer in a picture perfect way. I'd loved to visit there someday. :)
Aw thanks so much! I'd post more photos but my internet can only cope with so much. But I think 12ish per post should hopefully be enough, as they say a photo speaks a thousand words. Anyway I hope you get to Palawan someday!
In time I will and hopefully it will be sunny. hahah..I've heard that it rains a lot in the Philippines that's why. Well maybe there are other places where you could just enjoy indoors should it rain. If you could recommend me something that would be great.
Paradise! I would love to see it for myself, the wonder of nature and it's beauty really attract my inner being! Thanks for sharing.
wow. amazing shots mate. beautiful places :)
So fascinated with this Island. I wished to go there soon, my friend back in Manila told me so many things about the Philippines. Loads of beaches, destinations to go to and food to experience. Hope I can visit this place first real soon! thanks @stephengreenprice for touring us around by this post! i really really loved it!!!
Wow, are you using a dron machine for taking photo?
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