Palawan is variously cited as the Philippines' "last frontier," "the world's best-kept secret" and "a nature-lover's dream."
There's still some truth to all three claims.
Closer to Borneo than it is to the nation's capital, Manila, the more than 1,700 islands that constitute Palawan make it the largest (and least developed) province of the Philippines.
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