#C31 picture is an old picture, about one year old, of the west entrance to the Malinta Hill Tunnel complex. The cage was built against fallen rocks, I believe. On this trip or others the tours do not take visitors into the tunnel anymore. I believe they only take them to the east entrance but we skipped it this time.
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Today, the 2nd Jan. 2026, I took my family, coming from Hawaii, to Corregidor. My Grandson Dylan, who had his 16th Birthday and is enrolled in the Hawaiian JROTC Program (USMC) of his High School, requested it.
This is not a family album though, we share these pictures to show how Corregidor looks like in Jan. 20026.
Note #1: For your Information, the virus from China killed the previous services on Corregidor, hotel and ferry service are gone, and the Corregidor Foundation Inc, manager of the island has been terminated. The new manager of Corregidor is TIEZA of the Philippine Tourist Department. TIEZA allows only day tours, like the two tour organization above, whose boats leave from Bataan, and official tour guides are required and are provided. The tour organizations have to notify the Philippine Coast Guard of the names and ages of the passenger, a few days in advance. The Coast Guard sends a member to witness the boarding of the boats.
In other words Corregidor cannot be visited anymore on you own, stay overnight, explore ex Fort Mills gun batteries, barracks, utilities-like the power plants or ice plant, defense installations, roads, trails, beaches, tunnels or any other facilities, anymore! That is terrible and makes me very sad!
Note #2a: For this trip I used Villa Carmen Tours and resort to get us to Corregidor:
Villa Carmen Pools and Beach, Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/villacarmenpoolsandbeach/
Villa Carmen Corregidor Tours (internet booking)
https://www.corregidortours.com/
Note #2b: For your information, the only other Corregidor tour company I’m aware of and I used it, is this one: Guia del Mar Travels and Tours (I was happy with their service also).
https://guiadelmartoursph.com/
https://guiadelmartoursph.com/corregidor-island-tour/
Call us to book your tour – Phone, Viber & Whatsapp
+63 997 764 0946
Note #3: On this date, 2nd Jan. 2026 Villa Carmen had at least 6 boats taking passengers to Corregidor, I ask the admin lady on Corregidor how many boats were in Dec. 2025; she said quite a few, sometime 4 or 5 boats a day. That is good news. In my opinion though, I see a problem ahead, the two trolleys (tramvia), left on the island, are getting old and may have serious breakdowns before long!
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#C01 & #C02 pictures are of our departure from Villa Carmen at the SE End of Bataan. #C02 picture is our guide who came from Balanga. The Coast Guard person also came from Balanga, who checked our departure, but I don’t have a picture of him.
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#C03 & #C04 pictures are Google Earth graphs showing the two Tour Companies, the only two I know of, where they depart from to take you to Corregidor.
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#C05 to $C10 pictures are at the Middleside Barracks, the sad fact is that only about 10 years ago both Middleside Barracks were completely cleared of trees, grass and scrub vegetation. It seems the resources to keep the wild growth under control are no longer available. I believe this wild growth is damaging the ruins further.
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#C11 & #C12 pictures are of Battery Way, 12 inch howitzers; this gun battery has an awe inspiring history, which is spelled out in plaques posted here.
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#C13 to #C15 pictures are of the Fort Mills Hospital and the road to it, next to the Fort Mills Commissary. Again, about 8 years ago all the grass, scrub and tree vegetation was held under complete control, now no more. Notice the mud ahead of the trolley in picture #C15, that could disturb access to the hospital.
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#C16 picture shows Battery Hearn; its spare rifle tube is now being used in Manila for another display.
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#C17 to #C19 pictures show the ex Fort Mills BOQ (at left), the Pacific War Memorial and the Cine in that order.
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#C20 to #C22 pictures show the inside of the Pacific War Memorial Museum and we can see it is suffering some roof leak problems.
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#C23 to #C25 pictures show the outside of the Pacific War Memorial Museum, three of the WWII action description displays on one side look worse than the other side. #C25 picture gives us a view of Malinta Hill and the Tailend of Corregidor. This area is very special to us Corregidor Friends; Tom Aring a close friend’s ashes were put to rest in this area. He loved Corregidor, its history and he loved the loyal, then CFI staff personnel.
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#C26 picture shows us walking from Battery Geary area to Battery Crocket because of a fallen tree, I’m sure they will clear the road soon.
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#C27 picture shows us passing by the Lorcha Dock, left and off picture and the former Mac Arthur Lodge at right.
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#C28 picture shows we are at the Filipino Heroes Shrine and it seems rough weather caused roof damage on the site museum and rest rooms.
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#C29 & #C30 pictures are at the Japanese peace and friendship park.
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#C31 picture is an old picture, about one year old, of the west entrance to the Malinta Hill Tunnel complex. The cage was built against fallen rocks, I believe. On this trip or others the tours do not take visitors into the tunnel anymore. I believe they only take them to the east entrance but we skipped it this time.
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#C32 & #C33 pictures show our departure from inside the Northdock. One nice piece of news, although we have the prevailing NE winds, the trash amount along the north shoe was a lot less than before. Maybe the trash controls efforts in Manila Bay arte helping? In picture #C34 one can see a small amount of trash in that one corner of the water body.
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#C34 & #C35 pictures are from the Death March Zero (0) Km Marker in Mariveles Town. It is only 14 km from Villa Carmen to this place and we took advantage of that and had a look. Villa Carmen did not offer a snack on this trip, we brought drinking water, so it was good to drive to this site and get a bite. Directly next to this park, on either side is Jollibee or Macdonald; good for parking when visiting the site.
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