How could I explore the Rock Islands of Palau?

12/1/2011 7:15:11 PM

I’ve just had a tweet from a travel blogger about Palau, which reminded me of this question. He linked to the Palau Visitors Authority website, which has a section solely on the Rock Islands of Palau.

Quite a few interesting links about Vendors, Tours, details about the companies and what they offer in terms of activities around the islands.

You can see the website here: Palau Visitors Authority

8/23/2011 9:18:46 AM

6 – 9 people for 11 days kayaking around the islands for US$4795
http://www.wildernesstravel.com/trip/palau/micronesia-kayaking-snorkeling

It turns out the Visit Palau site actually looks useful, although it didn’t show up in the first couple of searches that I did. Under the ‘things to do’ section there seems to a lot of providers offering dive, kayak, canoe and regular tours of the rock islands. However few give prices or any real detail.
http://www.visit-palau.com/

This leads me to a couple of conclusions – because they’re custom tours they’re going to be expensive(as seen above – the only price I’ve found so far) and potentially the industry is still fairly new to the web and hence not a lot of info, quite a few of the operators are only listing email addresses.

I get the impression it could be a situation where you get a better deal when you book locally as there is likely to be more competition.

7/30/2011 3:18:49 PM

Wikipedia may be sparse, but Wikitravel isn’t 🙂

http://wikitravel.org/en/Palau

Looks like you certainly can hire a car (with both left and right drive so won’t matter where you’re from) or take a taxi – there are loads of local ones, however, to really see the reef, you’ll need to Scuba Dive, or snorkel.

There’s also a Palau International Coral Reef Center, an educational aquarium in Koror.

If you want to whet your appetite, you could also try watching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Palau – sure, it’s reality TV, but as someone who has seen the series, the cinematography is amazing!

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