PandananIsland in Balabac, Palawan
Forests at the water's edge
- Barangay
- Pandanan
- From Buliluyan port
- About 5 km southeast, in a straight line
- From Balabac town
- About 40 km northeast
Not a tour stop
Pandanan isn't a tour stop. The Katala Foundation, which protects the island's cockatoos, says travel to its project site on Pandanan and Bugsuk “is currently restricted for visitors” because of security concerns. People live here, and the videos below are theirs and their visitors'.
Videos
Filmed by visitors and by people who live here. Tap one to watch it on this page. It plays from YouTube, so it uses data only when you tap.
Short clips
Phone clips from YouTube Shorts, most under a minute.
More online
Pages and posts
Before you go
What you'll find
- With Bugsuk, one of the largest continuous coastal forests left in the Philippines
- The Philippine cockatoo (katala): about 40 birds grew to 297 by 2018 under nest protection
- Daily life in the island's villages
Good to know
- A trading ship that sank off Pandanan in the mid-1400s was found in 1993 by a pearl-farm diver and excavated by the National Museum in 1995.
- Pearl farms work the waters around Pandanan and Bugsuk.
- Plan the trip itself with the getting-here guide and the safety guide.
Sources
- Pandanan and Bugsuk, Katala Foundation
- The Pandanan shipwreck, National Museum of the Philippines
- Pandanan shipwreck, Wikipedia
- Scuttlebutt, Daily Tribune, December 2024
Videos and posts on this page belong to the people who made them. We link to them and play them from YouTube; we don't copy them.
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The far south
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