{"id":19086,"date":"2017-07-15T08:59:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T00:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=19086"},"modified":"2017-07-17T14:55:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T06:55:33","slug":"palawan-still-the-best-island-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/07\/15\/palawan-still-the-best-island-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Palawan: Still the Best Island in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Palawan is once again hailed as the world\u2019s best island for the year 2017 by Travel + Leisure magazine. Palawan first held the top spot in the magazine\u2019s list in 2013 and has reclaimed and retained the spot for two consecutive years since 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19087\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/IMG_7127-watermarked.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/IMG_7127-watermarked.jpg 850w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/IMG_7127-watermarked-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/IMG_7127-watermarked-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Crystal clear waters, abundant aquatic life, untainted natural environment, and many other natural wonders\u2014Palawan is such a gifted province, which is why people never get tired of raving about it.\u00a0Palawan is home to one of the New 7 Wonders of the World, the Puerto Princesa Underground River. Some other world-famous attractions are the Coron Reefs, the Tubbataha Reef, El Nido, and\u2014the friendly people. <a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/04\/19\/4-philippine-islands-dubbed-as-worlds-friendliest\/\">Palawan also topped the World&#8217;s Friendliest Islands<\/a> list of Travel + Leisure this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2016\/11\/19\/puerto-princesa-subterranean-river-national-park\/\">Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another Philippine island made it to World&#8217;s Best Islands list. Known for its white sand beaches, Boracay is in the third spot this year. The country&#8217;s summer capital also seems to always have a place in the list.<\/p>\n<p>Travel + Leisure is a New York-based international travel magazine published by Time, Inc. that holds annual traveler surveys to rate destinations and travel experiences in different categories.<\/p>\n<p>Get to know the rest of the beautiful islands in the world that made it to Travel + Leisure&#8217;s World&#8217;s Top 10 Islands:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\"><strong>10<\/strong> Bali, Indonesia<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\"><strong>9<\/strong> Hvar and the Dalmatian Islands, Croatia<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\"><strong>8<\/strong> Ischia, Italy<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\"><strong>7<\/strong> Kauai, Hawaii<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\"><strong>6<\/strong> Maui, Hawaii<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\"><strong>5<\/strong> Santorini, Greece<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\"><strong>4<\/strong> Galapagos Islands, Ecuador<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\"><strong>3<\/strong> Boracay, Philippines<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\"><strong>2<\/strong> Hilton Head Island, South Carolina<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\"><strong>1<\/strong> Palawan, Philippines<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Written by: Rizelle \u201cRei\u201d Lea\u00f1o<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/\">Travel + Leisure<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palawan is such a gifted province, which is why people never get tired of raving about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,5],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-19086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-story","category-news-and-current-events","tag-palawan"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/IMG_7127-watermarked.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19086"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19157,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19086\/revisions\/19157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}