How To Get There

 

 

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The Polillo Islands are situated 30 kilometers off the north-eastern coast of Quezon Province, Luzon. It is just 45 minutes helicopter or light plane flight from Metro Manila and Palanan. It is 25 miles of the eastern coast of Luzon , and 95 air miles, (approximately 30 minutes flight time) from The Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Metro Manila.

It is 24 kilometers west of the municipality of Infanta and 27 kilometers northern west of the municipality of Real, Quezon.

You can be reached the Polilio Island by motorboats three hours via Real-Polillo in the Ungos Port and a little bit shorter via Infanta-Polillo. Or if you want a pretty long drive from Manila, about four or five hours thru land, and you have to pass through Laguna and ride a ferry boat.

It is also about a three-hour boat ride from the municipality of Real in Quezon, the Polillo towns are typically rural, with no permanent and regular public utility buses and jeepneys plying the routes from one municipality to the other, and the road system not yet well established. The most common mode of transportation is by boat and many residents have to settle for motorcycles as inland transportation. Only few of the settlers here own vehicles, although a lot of houses especially at town centers have already been renovated into big bungalows.