Kalanggaman Island is located in the municipality of Palompon, province of Leyte, Philippines. It is an hour boat ride from the town proper of Palompon.

Our point of entry for Kalanggaman was at Palompon Leyte since we spend days discovering new places in Samar first, which I’ll be sharing on my next blog.

Things you should know before going to Kalanggaman Island:

Bathrooms: yes they have plus shower room but water is from the sea!

Freshwater: Fresh water is provided by your boat, 1 gallon is for 2 persons. Make sure you don’t forget to get your water before docking in your boat.

Electricity: None! Except for Solar power for lights and other essentials during night time, but they offer charging station for a certain fee, so make sure bring power banks.

Signal: very low! Just enjoy the view!

Food stalls: If you forget to bring something, they have small stores there. They are offering short meal orders too.

Reservation: Reservation is not needed for a small group( like 2-3 person) you may go straight at tourism board, however, if you are traveling in a large a group you may need to reserve first.

Tourism Board contact details:

Time for an overnight/ Day tour:

Day Tour – Boat trips start as early as 05:00 A.M. and go back to Palompon at 03:00 P.M. Make sure to consider the time when you are planning to go on a Day Tour, 3:00 P.M. all boats will go back to Palompon.

Overnight tour – Boat Starts at 12:00 noon 

How to Go to Kalanggaman Island from Tacloban Airport:

• Take a Multicab/Jeep going to Downtown
• From Downtown you have 2 choices:
  • Ride a tricycle going to Vanvans Terminal
  • Ride a multicab going to Abucay terminal/Robinson North
• New Terminal Station (Abucay terminal) is just in front of Robinson North. Vans Going to Palompon are in the left side corner of the terminal stations
• Van fare is 150 Php
• Travel time is 2 1/2 hour to 3  hours

How to go to Kalanggaman Island from Samar (San Juanico bridge, our route) :

• Take a Van going to Tacloban and drop off to Robinson North/Abucay terminal
• New Terminal Station (Abucay terminal) is just in front of Robinson North. Vans Going to Palompon are in the left side corner of the terminal stations
• Van fare is 150 Php
• Travel time is 2 1/2 hour to 3  hours

For those who wanted to go to Kalanggaman Island but coming from Cebu, you may book in advance here.

Kalanggaman Island Tour from Cebu

Itinerary Expenses:

Where we Stayed:

Palompon Lodge

I really like to recommend this place, cold aircon, clean room, the owner is super nice and even allowed us to check out late, it has strategic location near to stores, “barbecue-han” place at night,

We got our stay for P1,000 thru booking.com or you may contact them to the following numbers I posted.

This is just 5-10 minutes walk from the port of Palompon (Municipal) where will you ride a boat to Kalanggaman

Since the Day tour starts at 5 am and we arrived at Palompon around 6 pm from Tacloban, we need to stay and look an overnight stay to catch the first-day trip the next day.

How to get here? Tell the Van driver that you are going to Palompon Lodge. It is in the “Lincoln” street which is near the Terminal, from there walk for about 3 minutes and you’ll see the building.

Kalanggaman Day tour

( approximately 1 hour -45minutes boat ride from Palompon Municipal to Island.)

Day tour dispatching is from as early as 5 a.m. until 12noon, end of the day tour is 3 pm and you need to go back to your rented boat.

And if you’re only just a few, worry not that you’ll pay and rent the whole boat, you just need to inform the staff at the information desk that you’re a joiner and will wait for other passengers. That saves a lot!

Arrived at Kalanggaman

We were welcomed and assisted by the tourism staff. They asked if we would like to rent during our stay, and since it’s only a day tour we rented these:

Chair: 10 Php

Bench: 50 Php

Table: 30Php

other things you may rent:

Tent: 250 Php

Kubo: 500Php – 700 Php depends on how huge it is.

Overnight:

If you are planning to have an overnight in Kalanggaman Island but don’t want to stay in a tent, you may try to avail the TP house offed by Jeter.  Just inform the Palompon tourism office in advance for them to reserve.

Accommodation cost: 1,000 Php with Breakfast for 2 persons.

Store at Island:

They offer short orders like silogs and pancit! ( a bit pricey though)

Time for some photo ops!