How To Get There

 

Map of the Philippines showing the location of Province of Quezon

 

The Polillo Islands are situated thirty kilometers off the north-eastern coast of Quezon Province, Luzon. It is just forty-five minutes chopper or light plane flight from Metro Manila and Palanan. It is twenty-five miles of the eastern coast of Luzon , and ninety-five air miles, (approximately half-hour flight time) from The Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Metro Manila.

It is twenty-four kilometers west of the municipality of Infanta and twenty-seven 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.