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.
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.
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| Maquinit Hot Spring rate |
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| Huge tribal mask hanging on a tree - Maquinit hotspring |
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| Maquiniit Hotspring |
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| Maquinit hotspring Coron |
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| Maquinit Hot spring Coron |
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| Maquinit hot spring Coron |
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| Maquinit hotspring |
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| 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.
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| Maquinit Hot Spring Coron |
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| Maquinit Hot Spring Coron |
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| Stunning mountain view in Maquinit Hot Spring Coron |
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| Reflection of Mountains in Maquinit Hot Spring Coron |
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| Maquinit Hot Spring Coron |
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| Maquinit Hot Spring Coron |
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| Maquinit Hot Spring Coron |
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| 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.
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| Lualhati Park Coron |
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| Lualhati Park Coron |
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| Seen 7 - Lualhati Park Coron |
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| Coron Cashew Harvest |
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| Coron Cashew Harvest |
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| Coron Cashew harvest |
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| 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.
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!
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| Stairs to Mount Tapyas |
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| View of Coron Town |
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| 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!
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| Mount Tapyas cross |
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| Partial Coron Sunset |
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| Coron Sunset - Mount Tapyas |
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| Coron Sunset - Mount Tapyas |
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| Overlooking Coron - Mount Tapyas |
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| Mount Tapyas overlooking |
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| Mount Tapyas overlooking |
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| Coron Sunset view from Mount Tapyas |
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| Coron Sunset view from Mount Tapyas |
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| Coron Sunset view from Mount Tapyas |
