Calauit Safari — Local services in Busuanga

The Safari is what you’d expect from the pics, so I’ll spend this review giving advice about land travel from Coron Proper.

There’s an opportunity to do a bunch of single-track off-roading with some great ocean views either there or back if you get a dirt bike. We did this, taking the paved south road there, and the off-road north route back.

The paved south road there features a toll booth Google doesn’t know about roughly halfway there. They only stop you if you’re a westerner, and charge 200php per head, a pretty expensive toll for PI. Inevitably, the road gets notably worse after the toll too, with large patches of gravel in several places, while before the toll it’s clear. You could avoid this toll if you go the north route there and the south route back.

The north / south forking point on the way there is in Coron (non proper). On the way back from the Safari, the north / south fork is at Amazen Resort - take the dirt road if you want to off-road back. There’s about 20km of single-track off-road trail that feeds into a two-way dirt road for another 30km or so that continues along the coast with beautiful ocean views all along it.

The single track part is a 4/5 out of 10 difficulty on a dirt bike, probably 9/10 difficult on a regular scooter. There’s a a fork with a bunch of big black rocks to the left and a dirt path up a very steep hill to the right about halfway through, and you want the steep hill - the big rocks go to a river bed eventually. It’s pretty fun riding.

The road eventually starts turning paved a little before the airport, then is fully...

My husband and I, during our honeymoon and as part of our Tour Package with Ellen's Travel & Tours Palawan visited the Calauit safari park and saw this devastating enclosure, home to their local endangered crocodiles. There were 7 of these crocodiles in tiny concrete cages, with small concrete ponds with barely any water; it was dirty as well. There was one larger crocodile that couldn't even properly turn around the cage was that small! It honestly broke my heart. There were other animals such as birds in tiny cages, monkeys with little stimulation and an anaconda, that were also poorly looked after but our main concern was for the crocodiles, who had nothing - no stimulation, no water to submerge themselves in, nothing but staring at a concrete wall day after day. We have tried to reach out to the Calauit Wildlife Safari Park to see how we can help fundraise money here in Australia for them to improve the crocodile enclosures or rehome them but we have not heard back from them in about...

I thought I was arriving at a sanctuary dedicated to animal welfare. The giraffes have multiple wounds but they look like they've been "treated" because they have blue antiseptic on them. It's the humans who are locked up to feed the giraffes and not the other way round, so that's fine.

However, and this ruins EVERYTHING: for the second part of the park, we are taken to a place where the animals are locked up in cages, most of them rusty. Why are they locked up? Why such small cages? For pity's sake, there's no point in keeping them like this: no tourist enjoys seeing this form of mistreatment. It's the freedom of the animals that makes this country so beautiful. Please 🙏🏼 At least, if they are no longer capable of returning to the wild, in much larger enclosures! And if you have to, appeal for donations on the spot!

I sincerely hope that you will pay attention to this...