CILYC
Palawan · PRIMARY Homeport
El Nido &
Coron
Karst islands, glass-still lagoons, and light that turns gold before anywhere else in the archipelago. Reached by private sail — never by queue.
| ARRIVAL
Bacuit Bay doesn't look real from the water.
Limestone rises straight out of the sea in shapes that shouldn't hold together, and the light does something here it doesn't do anywhere else in the archipelago — it goes gold early, and stays that way.
You arrive by private sail into a lagoon most people only see from a photograph, and for a moment the boat feels almost incidental to the scenery it delivered you into.
| Why We Sail Here
El Nido and Coron reward exactly one kind of traveler: the one willing to arrive slowly.
The lagoons, the hidden coves, the drop-offs between islands — none of it opens up to a fixed ferry schedule or a shared banca queue. A private trimaran means we choose the hour, the tide, and the light. We arrive at Big Lagoon before the day-trip fleets, and we leave before they've finished arriving.
Before 8am
| When we typically enter Big Lagoon — alone
Big Lagoon & Secret Lagoon
Entered by kayak through openings barely wide enough for two paddles — the water inside changes colour the moment you pass through.
Kayangan Lake
Cool and startlingly clear, tucked above Coron's coastline — a freshwater pause between two very different kinds of blue.
Discoveries, not a checklist.
A tight edit of what earns the sail — the places our crew return to, and the ones we quietly keep to ourselves until you're aboard.
What You'll Find
Cobra Island & the Twin Lagoons
The karst walls close in close enough to touch, the passage between them narrow enough to feel like a discovery rather than a stop.
Sandbars, on the tide's schedule
They surface and vanish through the day, claimed for an hour at a time and shared with no one but your own party.
CILYC Experiences Here
Three ways to sail this coastline.
Each experience routes through El Nido and Coron differently — choose by pace, not just by itinerary.
Frontier Voyage
The full private expedition between El Nido and Coron - hidden lagoons, remote anchorages, and complete disconnection over three to five days
Golden Hour Sail
An intimate sunset sail built entirely around Palawan's changing light, curated music, and a limited open bar.
The journey is the luxury.
The lagoons don't wait for anyone. But we can wait for you.
Frontier Voyage · Lagoon Escape · GolDen Hour Sail