El Nido Resorts’ Pangulasian Island offers One with Nature Adventures
HigH-end travelers, who set world trends, returned to el nido Resorts’ Pangulasian island following renovations to further enhance the guest experience.
Javi Hernandez, president of Ten Knots development Corp., owner and developer of el nido Resorts, relates that guests revisit Pangulasian because they feel they can be left to themselves there to enjoy nature. The resort, which has been cited by travel authority Condé Nast Traveler a number of times, was master planned to allow guests privacy beginning with villas set some distance from each other and further surrounded by greeneries.
Pangulasian is the top-end property of el nido Resorts’ four-island getaways in northern Palawan. The three others are Lagen, Miniloc and Apulit, with each one appealing to a special group of travelers.
Pangulasian guests who enjoy their privacy further have a 1-kilometer stretch of ivory beach to themselves.
The waves that hit the beach tend to be gentle owing to the location of the resort in the bay, and provide a soothing rhythm to an island holiday.
Moreover, the resort has its own house reef teeming with abundant coral life just steps away from the beach. Moray eels, groupers and anemone fish are just some of the attractions found there owing to the marine currents in the area that carry nutrients, and food, for these fish and marine invertebrates. And where rich marine life is found, predators, like the blacktip reef sharks, will follow. The latter feast on squid, crustaceans and small fish, and don’t bother snorkelers who keep a respectful distance from them.
Renovated common areas, like the Amianan restaurant and a new beach bar lounge area, have also been positioned to maximize views of the limestone cliffs of neighboring islets that dramatically change with the light.
Hernandez explains that densities were kept deliberately low to allow guests to lose themselves to the natural surroundings and unhampered views.
Joey Bernardino, Ten Knots marketing director, relates that the beach bar is what revisiting guests will mainly notice as an improvement. “it will allow guests a new area wherein they can soak in all the nature around them.”
The rest of the changes included the refurbishment of the cogon roof at each other guest villas, furniture restoration, upgrading of the guest TV sets to 50 inches with new Bluetooth speakers and boosting the sewage treatment plant to ensure that marine life will continue to feel welcome there.
The new treatment plant ensures that guests who frequent the house reef will remain amazed by the outstanding biodiversity of the area for a long time to come. Keeping natural attractions unchanged over time does take a lot of planning and work, comments Bernardino.