Palawan is a very diverse island, both in terms of landscape and of people. Travelling around you meet not only natives but immigrants of different cultures from all over the Philippine archipelago.

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Children going home from school. Culion Island, Calamianes. For most of the 20th century, the whole of Cullion was a leper colony. However, there are now very few cases of leprosy to be found here and children grow up in relative freedom and health.