"The Northern Adventure Palaui Island " a Palaui Island Travel Page by moymoydtraveller

Was built by Spaniards in December of 1892 it has a Focal Plane 100m (327 Ft); white flash every 5 sec; 14.5 metres (47Ft) Octagonal cylindrical stone tower, has a U-shape structural formation. Located in the Northernmost part of Palaui Island San Vicente Cagayan.
The walls and beams are showing to be aged by years, the roof is totally gone, they say on the entrance or south part of the lighthouse there was flagpole. Cape Engaņo sits on top of the mountains has a spectacular view, from the tower window in the southern part lies a white sand beach which houses magnificent corals and marine life to the north vast sea and the Dos Hermanas Islands in the east side you will see the ridge which is being battered by waves and strong winds, the locals say during September to January nights and days are windy and quite cold due to the Northeast Monsoon (hanging amihan) from Icy Siberia, China and Japan.
From the North Eastern side is the Pacific Ocean on the Northwestern side South China Sea.
Sad to say the lighthouse is already abandoned, nobody maintains the beautiful place like this, withered by storms, winds and nature quite amazing the lighthouse still stands up to present day.

Finally the day has come November 10, 2007 we are now on our way to this pristine island Palaui Island, 3 months of planning accompanied by excitement, it was 12:30PM when we departed Manila, we boarde Florida Bus lines they are the only bus company who has trips directly to Sta Ana Cagayan the last town of Cagayan, the travel was already an adventure for me, specially the mountanous Nueva Vizcaya, we had our dinner there to tell you it the weather is just like baguio. after 14 hours of travel we finally arrived at our destination November 11 2:30AM we arrived 2 hours earlier than expected. by 4am we were able to get a quadcycle to take us to the Pier in Barangay San Vicente the ride took 30 minutes of our time by 6am the pump boat has arrived and now ready to take us to island. All i can say the travel was time consuming but quite worth it!

After our Lunch we have decided to trek and go to the Northern Side of the Island, its about 8KM away from our Base Camp, took us 3.5 hours to trek with a faster pace and less rest, good thing is the trail has a very luch vegetation, i hope it would be that way always, this island is actually a marine santuary and proctected forest.