Thursday, December 11, 2014

Coron DIY City tour

Our second day in Coron Palawan started with a DIY City tour including Maquinit Hotspring, Coron Cashew Harvest, Lualhati Park, and Mount Tapyas. According to my research other travelers who have been to Coron opt climbing Mount Tapyas in the afternoon to catch the sunset and go to Maquinit hotspring afterwards for a soothing hot spring therapy. We chose the latter instead of going for the usual itinerary because we want to see the beautiful panoramic view of Maquinit hotspring. 

We started our 2nd day by renting 2 trikes (6pax) to Maquinit worth 300 pesos per trike 2 way and they will wait for us for 2 hours. By the way, please expect some rough roads during the 20 to 30 minutes ride to Maquinit. We arrived at Maquinit Hotspring 8:30 in the morning and we paid 150 per head for the entrance fee. It was our first time to experience salt water hot spring that's so refreshing and soothing to the body.  Just be careful dipping because this hot spring can reach its maximum heat to 40 degrees.  


Maquinit Hot Spring rate

Huge tribal mask hanging on a tree - Maquinit hotspring


Maquiniit Hotspring


Maquinit hotspring Coron 

Maquinit Hot spring Coron

Maquinit hot spring Coron

Maquinit hotspring

Maquinit Hot spring Coron


Then again, what we really really love about this place is the view. Even if the sun rays started kissing our skin, we felt the cool breeze in the area because mangroves  and  full-grown trees are everywhere. While on the other side of Maquinit is an improvised bridge placed in the middle of mangrove trees that will lead you to a stunning view of sea and mountains. I knew it! View in the morning is sooooo majestic. We're right in deciding to go there in the morning, not only we enjoyed dipping in the soothing hot spring, we also enjoyed the view. 



Maquinit Hot Spring Coron

Maquinit Hot Spring Coron

Stunning mountain view in Maquinit Hot Spring Coron

Reflection of Mountains in Maquinit Hot Spring Coron

Maquinit Hot Spring Coron

Maquinit Hot Spring Coron

Maquinit Hot Spring Coron

Maquinit Hot Spring Coron


After our relaxing activity in Maquinit Hotspring, in the afternoon of our 2nd day we decided to visit the remaining destinations in our DIY City tour, the Coron cashew harvest, Lualhati Park and Mount Tapyas for sunset. DIY'ing City tour in Coron is so easy because trikes are everywhere and fare is just 10 pesos per person per way. 


Lualhati Park Coron

Lualhati Park Coron

Seen 7 - Lualhati Park Coron


Coron Cashew Harvest

Coron Cashew Harvest

Coron Cashew harvest

Coron Cashew Harvest Owner

When climbing Mount Tapyas, make sure you bring bottled water to quench your thirst because it's a boggling  720 steps to the cross, haha. 



Stairs to Mount Tapyas

View of Coron Town

Mount Tapyas

After the supposedly 720 steps to Mounta Tapyas, these were our rewards. Seeing the newly rebuild cross which was previously damaghed by Typhoon Yolanda (Haian), a magnificent view of Coron town and of course, the spectacular Coron SUNSET! We were lucky to witness such phenomenon. Such an amazing feeling!



Mount Tapyas cross

Partial Coron Sunset

Coron Sunset - Mount Tapyas

Coron Sunset - Mount Tapyas

Overlooking Coron - Mount Tapyas

Mount Tapyas overlooking

Mount Tapyas overlooking 

Coron Sunset view from Mount Tapyas

Coron Sunset view from Mount Tapyas

Coron Sunset view from Mount Tapyas




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