Country Info
- Koror
- Capital
- US dollar (USD)
- Currency
- 19,092
- Population
- PW
- Country Code
Koror Slideshow
Top Hotels in Koror
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Palau Royal Resort Koror
70 reviews -
Airai View Hotel And Spa Koror
34 reviews -
West Plaza Downtown Koror
9 reviews
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F&B Palau Hotel Koror
5 reviews
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Sea Passion Koror
49 reviews
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Cliffside Hotel Palau Koror
25 reviews
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H.K. Motel Koror
4 reviews
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Palasia Hotel Palau Koror
76 reviews
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Penthouse Hotel Koror
27 reviews
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West Plaza by the Sea Koror
20 reviews
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West Plaza Coral Reef Hotel Koror
4 reviews
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West Plaza Desekel Koror
10 reviews
Koror
Travel Blogs from Koror, Palau
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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 ...
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
... we sat. Kent wanted to show me the capital. Koror used to be the capital of Palau but not too long ago, the government decided to move it to a small village. The reason for ...
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
... 19, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mr. Extensive Traveler Snorkeler Bore
Extensive Traveling Bores December 21, 2009 My diving day. There are snorkelers on the boat as well. One is a man from the U.S. who claims not to dive because he never stays in ...
9.08pm - All That Glitters
... tour, but it was actually a few sites around the Rock Islands, which are, oddly enough, islands made of rock near Koror. Specifically, limestone. Our guide today was a lovely Palauan girl called Emerald (I know, right?) who led the intrepid snorkelling ...
Palau
... from Palau. We haven’t researched the topic ourselves. We then took the highway down the eastern side of Palau passing the capital building which is a huge domed building in what appears to be the middle of nowhere. Eventually we ...
Palau
My sister, then age 10, wrote: In the morning we had to hurry because we were being picked up at 8:30 to go to Milleacoc on Bable Thraup. On our way down to the dock we saw a bunch of dead frogs. The boat we rode in had 230 horsepower! When we arrived we ...
Yap
My sister, age 10, wrote: We checked the museum again but it was still closed. When we got back we had a car so we went out by the airport to see some old Japanese zeroes. We had to go back, have lunch, and go out again with a guide. It turned out ...
Yap
My sister, age 10, wrote: In the morning I felt pretty good but couldn't eat half of my breakfast. Afterward Mom and Dad went to church but left us behind. When they got back I told them that I wasn't feeling good. They said I probably had some of the ...
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