The 6 Best Things to do in Airai, Babeldaob Island

The highly-trained and professional staff at Palau Escape offer personalized dive packages and courses. We are a boutique operation, specializing in smaller groups. We can offer everything from superb half-day or full day snorkeling trips and discover scuba diving to tours around the more challenging dive sites in Palau for seasoned divers looking for new adventures. We can also run training courses via PADI, IANTD, & IART and can provide support logistics for technical dives: everything scheduled to your convenience. At Palau Escape, you set your own itinerary so you can enjoy your time among our reefs, wrecks, swim-holes and lagoons at your own pace.Francis Toribiong, the father of scuba diving in Palau, an inductee to the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame and the man who put the island on the diving map and discovered legendary sites like Blue Corner, is one of the owners of Palau Escape.Our goal is to make sure you have a safe, fun and completely unforgettable stay in Palau.

Micronesia's second-largest island is still undeveloped.

Kabekl also known as War Canoe was the major type of ocean vessel that are distinguished from all others in Pacific area, they are usually low in the water when compared to the length of the boat and the size of the sail. Nevertheless, Palauan’s retained great skills in manipulation and maneuver of their canoe either by sail or paddle. The Airai war canoe was built around the 90’s by some of the elders of Airai and some of younger man who are involved in man’s association in the village, the tools that was used to carve the canoe was adze tools which is very common in every village who are construction the canoes. The war canoe’s length is base of the certain trunk of the tree and its quality, better yet, the longer the better, they’re usually 40 feet in length or more and 2 feet deep, to accommodate 40 people, and if you noticed the rope made of coconut husk is being used to hold all parts of the war canoe together as a replacement for nails.

We are a locally owned Boat Charter company whose specialize in lure fishing(casting and Jigging) for pros and beginners alike and personalized private family tours like (snorkeling in the famous World heritage sites(southern lagoon)and light tackle fishing for fresh sashimi and having lunch at one of the many beaches in the Rock Islands .Our guides are local and speak English and Japanese.