Green Turtle

Puerto Princesa


Green Turtle's location near Puerto's hard-to-reach bus station is a huge plus if you have a morning departure the next day. It's a friendly hostel featuring eight-bed dorms with en suites, thick mattresses and crisp air-con. Breakfast costs P100.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Puerto Princesa attractions

2. Palawan Museum

2.89 MILES

Housed in the old City Hall building adjacent to Mendoza Park, this newly modernised museum has two floors of exhibits about the ethnological and…

3. Palawan Heritage Center

2.91 MILES

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

4. Plaza Cuartel

3.01 MILES

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…

5. Environmental Enforcement Museum

3.22 MILES

In the Pasyar Travel & Tours complex, this is a worthy and important museum that displays confiscated chainsaws, boats, dynamite and (sometimes) animals…

6. World War II Museum

3.25 MILES

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…

8. Iwahig Prison & Penal Farm

6.41 MILES

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…