The extensive but straighforward layout of the city offers little to look at, other than the Cathedral beside Rizak Park which was built to replace the original church dating from 1880s. Palawan’s largest and most famous caven, St Paul’s cave can only be reached by water.

About 30 miles due north of Puerto Princesa the Underground River flows through the 4 ½ mile long cave in St Paul’s National Park which cover 15 sq miles on the shore of St Paul Bay on the South China Sea. The northwest of Palawan, El Nido is the place that visitors to Palawan dream of finding. The Spanish called the El Nido meaning "The Nest" because bird’s nest from which the famous soup was made "grew" in the limestone cliffs. The town snuggles shyly between the high cliffs and the white sandy beach. The invasion of foreign visitors in the last few years has not robbed El Nido of its friendly charm. In the face of such overwhelmingly beautiful natural landscape, any development would have been both irresponsible and presumptous.

It becomes even more miraculous if visitors travel to explore Bacuit Archipelago. Cliffs rise like dark ships sheer out of the crystal clear water, white beaches gleam above colorful banks of coral, lagoons hide behind steep walls of rock. El Nido is one hopes a place where nature will have a safe home.

The Calamian Archipelago stretching north from Palawan Island almost as far as Mindoro, is another place where nature is sacred, Nowhere else in the Philippines is a relatively small stretch of sea so densely dotted with islands. The Culion Island is the second largest of the Calamians. Its special claim to fame is the leper-colony, founded in 1905. The largest island in the group is Busuanga Island which is quite densely populated. The island capital Coron is full of activity. Coron Island to the south of Coron town is a strange looking wedge-shapes cliffs. Behind the cliffs is a seven turquoise-colored fresh water lakes lying in a rugges landscape the Cayangan Lakes.