{"id":6647,"date":"2016-07-08T10:59:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T02:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2016-07-08T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T05:38:21","slug":"palawan-named-as-worlds-best-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/07\/08\/palawan-named-as-worlds-best-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Palawan, named as world\u2019s best island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6648\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/07\/Taraw-Cliff_2.jpg\" alt=\"Taraw Cliff_2\" width=\"850\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/07\/Taraw-Cliff_2.jpg 850w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/07\/Taraw-Cliff_2-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/07\/Taraw-Cliff_2-768x421.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>PALAWAN\u2019S BEST. <em>Taraw Cliff in Coron, Palawan <\/em>continues to captivate more tourists as they are once again named as the best island in the world by an international travel magazine.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">For the second time around, the island of Palawan in the Philippines was named by international travel magazine Travel and Leisure (T+L) as the \u201cbest island in the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">With a score of 93.71, Palawan was described by one voter as \u201cevery beach lover\u2019s dream destination.\u201d The article also mentioned Palawan\u2019s five-mile long underground river, turquoise waters, and shipwrecks and reefs where scuba diving and snorkeling are popular activities. \u201cIt\u2019s considered one of the world\u2019s wonders of nature, and visitors shouldn\u2019t miss the chance to boat through its limestone caverns,\u201d said Travel and Leisure in its post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">T+L also named Palawan as the best island in their 2013 list. Aside from that, Palawan also topped Conde Nast Traveler\u2019s annual poll where it also ended up as number 1 in their list of best islands in the world in 2014 and 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Part of T+L\u2019s list as well were Boracay Island which ranked 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, and Cebu which ranked 6<sup>th<\/sup>. Palawan bested other islands in other countries such as in Indonesia, South Carolina, Hawaii, Greece, New Zealand, and Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/worlds-best\/islands#intro\" target=\"_blank\">Travel and Leisure<\/a>; <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/life\/07\/07\/16\/palawan-named-worlds-best-island-anew\" target=\"_blank\">ABS-CBN News<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mb.com.ph\/palawan-is-conde-nast-polls-best-island-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Manilla Bulletin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALAWAN\u2019S BEST. Taraw Cliff in Coron, Palawan continues to captivate more tourists as they are once again named as the best island in the world by an international travel magazine.\u00a0 \u00a0 For the second time around, the island of Palawan in the Philippines was named by international travel magazine Travel and Leisure (T+L) as the \u201cbest island in the world.\u201d With a score of 93.71, Palawan was described by one voter as \u201cevery beach lover\u2019s dream destination.\u201d The article also mentioned Palawan\u2019s five-mile long underground river, turquoise waters, and shipwrecks and reefs where scuba diving and snorkeling are popular activities. \u201cIt\u2019s considered one of the world\u2019s wonders of nature, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/07\/El_Nido_Palawan_Big_Lagoon-e1498708415938.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647","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=6647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6654,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions\/6654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}