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Palawan Heritage Center-November 2024
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Nov 7, 2024

　　This museum has touch-screen videos and a hologram that outline Palawan’s history and explain contemporary economic and environmental challenges. There's also a gallery that showcases local artists.

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Palawan Heritage Center
Puerto Princesa
　　This museum has touch-screen videos and a hologram that outline Palawan’s history and explain contemporary economic and environmental challenges. There's also a gallery that showcases local artists. ...
Environmental Enforcement Museum
Puerto Princesa
　　In the Pasyar Travel & Tours complex, this is a worthy and important museum that displays confiscated chainsaws, boats, dynamite and (sometimes) animals such as civets. 　　It needs all the support it can get as local governments do not promote it (quite the opposite), and group-tour operators tend to not...
World War II Museum
Puerto Princesa
　　Just east of the centre, this is an interesting, privately owned museum set up by Eugenio Mendoza, whose father was a member of the Fighting 1000, a group of local guerrillas who fought the Japanese (his father was ultimately beheaded). The museum is chock-full of war memorabilia and has tributes...
Palawan Museum
Puerto Princesa
　　Housed in the old City Hall building adjacent to Mendoza Park, this newly modernised museum has two floors of exhibits about the ethnological and archaeological significance of Palawan, most with interesting accompanying explanations in English. ...
Nagtabon Beach
Puerto Princesa
　　This beach, on the northern side of the isthmus, has several hundred metres of white sand and shallow water good for swimming. Jeepneys from San Jose terminal (they leave around noon) aren't a convenient option, so best to go by motorbike or rental car or van. The road is rough...
Palawan Butterfly Eco Garden & Tribal Village
Puerto Princesa
　　One half of this is a lovely garden where you can see different species of fluttering butterflies. The other half is set up for interaction with members of the Palaw'an tribe, who sell crafts and play instruments and conduct demonstrations. There are also some interesting insect displays, and a few...
Iwahig Prison & Penal Farm
Puerto Princesa
　　About 15km from Puerto, this penal colony invites visitors to drop in and mingle with the prisoners. In the gymnasium of the central compound, inmates sell souvenirs and perform flamboyant dance routines for tour groups; these are definitely worth seeing if you can time it right. From the central compound,...
Plaza Cuartel
Puerto Princesa
　　Behind the Immaculate Concepcion Cathedral (c 1872), this restored WWII garrison is the site of an open-air war museum and shrine to American prisoners of war burned alive here by the Japanese on 14 December 1944 – an incident known as the Palawan Massacre. Only 11 of the 154 survived....
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