My family spent three days and two nights in Coron, Palawan last weekend. My mother assumed that my brother, my sister and myself would be off from school by this time of the year so she booked us a packaged tour to Coron a month or two ago. I had just finished my final exams in law school, so it was a welcome respite.

We’ve been to Palawan before, more than seven years ago, but that was in Puerto Princesa, the capital town of Palawan, touted as the Philippine’s “last frontier”. Last weekend, it was our first time in Coron, on the northern part of the country’s largest province. Coron is both the name of a town in the island of Busuanga and the name of a beautiful island off the shore of Coron town.