Country Info
- Koror
- Capital
- US dollar (USD)
- Currency
- 19,092
- Population
- PW
- Country Code
Palau Slideshow
Top Hotels in Palau
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Palau Royal Resort Koror
83 reviews -
Airai Water Paradise Hotel & Spa Koror
43 reviews -
West Plaza Coral Reef Hotel Koror
4 reviews
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West Plaza Desekel Koror
13 reviews
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West Plaza Downtown Koror
9 reviews
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F&B Palau Hotel Koror
5 reviews
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Sea Passion Koror
61 reviews
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Cliffside Hotel Palau Koror
30 reviews
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H.K. Motel Koror
4 reviews
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Palasia Hotel Palau Koror
80 reviews
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Penthouse Hotel Koror
30 reviews
Palau
Travel Blogs from Palau
Spending 30 hours "Where the Rainbow Ends"
This is a top pick! ... the nightly news or in school geography classes. Once the USA took over the island chain from Japanese occupiers during WWII, Palau became a Trust Territory run by the USA for fifty years until it became fully independent in 1994. Today the small nation ...
Yapping
This is a top pick! ... Federated States of Micronesia. After the defeat of the occupying Japanese forces in WWII, the islands of Micronesia became (like Palau) a Trust Territory administered by the USA until they gained full independence in 1986. Although there are a few modern ...
Life and death in paradise
This is a top pick! There hasn't been too many times in my 31 years that I've feared for my life, but yesterday's approach and entry to this narrow anchorage I did. Woowee it was a doozy, especially at low tide and coupled with a computerised sea chart that was a hundred or ...
Breath taking: from the air for a change
This is a top pick! ... takes my breath away and tears to my eyes. The brochure says: 10-15 minutes for 75$. We fly more than 20 minutes. IF you go to Palau: you HAVE to do this. I stay jumpy all day. Bob needs his camera back, tomorrow: he is leaving and we have 3 ...
Chandelier chambers and blue holes
This is a top pick! We dive a Japanese vessel, sunk in 1944. And the chambers. Those are air chambers UNDER an island, only reachable when diving. They ARE amazing! You dive under an island and come up in air chambers. You can take your mask off in there: the air is ...
The most dangerous dive site in the world
This is a top pick! In case you are planning to come to Palau: a couple of websites. Yesterday, we had a day off. Did not do much. We looked for an internet café, mentioned in the Lonely Planet. As often before: Lonely Planet is outdated. We do find a hotel with ...
No pictures for a while since ...
This is a top pick! ... we lost our camera. This time for good. It is at the bottom of the sea. What started off as a nice day, turns bad. Sun is shining in the morning, not anymore when we reach our dive site: it is raining cats and dogs. Sea is rough. I roll in ...
We dive nr2 of the top 100 dive sites of the world
This is a top pick! Oops, the local Beata screwed up again: pick up is not at 7h30 but at 8h. 5 minutes drive later, we arrive at our dive shop: Fish 'n Fins: it is the best oiled dive shop I have ever seen. They sell about everything a diver might want, all with ...
Palau Economy
Palau Economy Palau's whole economy is based on tourism. I don’t know what they did before divers discovered Palau but it must not have been too much other than some fishing. ...
Aliens in Palau
... nbsp; I have done it. I have swam with the jellyfish in the jellyfish lake. I have dove in Palau. I have had a very good time in spite of my cold and arthritis and wrenched back. Now it is time to think ...
Where the rainbow ends
... out they were wondering if I was on the crew-oops! It's going to be called Survivor Micronesia but it was really filmed in Palau. The secret is out! By the end of the trip my bruises had faded and my dog bite was healing quite nicely. I was ...
breakfast
It's hard to ruin a breakfast but they have managed it. You have a choice of eggs, scrambled or fried, then a choice of ham or bacon or sausage and then toast or rice. I've had eggs both ...
Palau, The Rainbow’s end
... has a lot of fun chasing gecko’s around. Each day she greets all the people with a friendly "Morning!". The weather in Palau is somewhat unpredictable, often nice in the morning with heavy rain in the afternoon. Both of us went diving, and crossed ...
around the island
... monolith site. These large volcanic stones are set in a field and no one knows why they are there or where they came from because Palau doesn’t have this kind of volcanic rock on it. How very, very odd. I paid my $5 to walk down ...
Check that Equipment
... about an hour to get to the dive site. We are weaving through some incredible scenery. Kent told me yesterday that Palau has 330 islands and a number of rocks. I think that some of their islands could be classed a just big rocks because ...
stuck on a tropical island
Arrived safely last night at 2 in the morning and was driven in the dark to my hotel, climbed the hill, and collapsed into bed in agony from my cold and from arthritis in the knees and from a sprained back ...
Sad Holiday
... the neighbor feels that part of Minda’s family lot should be his. Poor Minda. She sent her Christmas presents from Palau to Manila just on the 20th so they have all burned too. She is not looking forward to Christmas. I ...
Paradise at its finest
There just are not enough positive adjectives to describe Palau: fantastic, spectacular, beautiful, peaceful, friendly...all true but don't quite do it justice. Palau is roughly 4,500 miles from Hawaii and forms part of the boundary between the ...
Recap of the trip
... (Greg's BIL from Dallas TX)- this pic is taken in Chandler Caves close to the Island were we stayed, popular dive location for Palau. This is a group of caves with around 4 air chambers; the name comes from the hanging rock formations that look like ...
Palau tales
... the Japanese dive shops, they stay in Japanese hotels and they eat in Japanese restaurants. Kent told me that recently Palau passed a law that required hotels, restaurants and public places to have their signs written in English as well as Japanese ...
arrival in Palau
... 2009 Not a bad flight and not that long to fly from Manila to Koror, Palau. But we arrived in the middle of the night, 1:40 a.m. I hate arriving places at that time. You can't ...
Peleliu Express
Last week we traveled to Peleliu, a small, beautiful island South of Palau. The island is surrounded by lagoons on all sides. It measures only six by two miles and has a population of around 600. Peleliu is renown for its diving and notorious for the ...
Paradise in Palau
... week we were there. The next day we decided to take a break from scuba diving and explore some of the other opportunities Palau had to offer, like swimming with dolphins! Palau has a dolphin sanctuary which daily gives tours of the facilities. Two of ...
leaving Palau
... flight. It would have been really good to fly over Palau during the day but of course it was very dark by the time we left. Goodbye Palau. I hope you can get it more together should I come again. You need some customer service ...
Palau
... the tv show Survivor was just wrapping up filming. It's going to be called Survivor Micronesia even though it was filmed in Palau. When you see it on tv next year you can know that I was there! Of course there were georgous views to ...
Palau Perhentian's - Many Hours In The Ocean
We moved from one wonderful beach in Thailand to another beautiful one in Malaysia. Crossed over the border on an overnight train and arrived in the peaceful Perhentian islands ready to relax in the sun. I (Amy) decided it was time to get my advanced ...
And into Malaysia. . . .
We arrived in Malaysia after a long day travelling in a mini bus all the way to Georgetown, the capital of an island called Penang in the north west coast of Malaysia. Quite a difference entering Malaysia in terms of the look of the place, everything ...
8.50pm - Secure
... in age, variance in interests (most people who come to Palau come solely to dive), and most importantly, the language barrier. Palau is a destination destination, as t’were, for the Japanese. And like most Japanese people, all the ones I’ve ...