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Cadlao Lagoon
A stretch of coast worth the drive · El Nido, Philippines
Photo: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.8★Rating
227Reviews
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Nov–MayBest time
The experience
A karst-walled lagoon on Cadlao Island with calm, mostly waist-deep emerald water, reachable by kayak along the island's shoreline from El Nido town when seas allow.
Most bangka tours race to Big and Small Lagoon; Cadlao is the quieter stop, and paddlers who come over on their own often share it with almost no one.
emerald waterlimestone wallspaddle-quietwaist-deep calm
It's only worth the detour Nov–May. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
Where it is
El Nido, Philippines · Palawan. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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