This is Boracay. One of the tourist spot in the Philippines. It is a small island in the Philippines located approximately 315 km (196 mi) south of Manila and 2km off the northwest tip of Panay Island in the western Visayas region of the Philippines.
It has received awards from travel publications. It has been famous for being one of the world's top destination for relaxation and at night, if you love to party in an island this is the place for you!!!
How to get there: From Manila by Plane usually cheap flights for economy on local flights of about 1 hour ride or from Ilo ilo island by land of about 3-4 hours bus or van around 1-2k pesos towards Caticlan. In Caticlan, there are several medium size boat that can accommodate you towards the island for about 15-30 minutes.
Travel tips: Book more than a week and have an itinerary. Check for the time availability of flight schedules and also for the beach activities such as island hoping and others online.
Me and my long time friends arrived in the location with a view of the clear blue waters. There's a tricycle that serves as a transportation towards which hotel you will be accommodated depends on your reservations.
Boracay is divided into 3 stations. Station 1 where there are luxurious hotels with beach front, station 2 for affordable hotels and rooms which is near to the mall (a shopping place with lots of restaurants), and station 3 which is more relaxing and a very cheap price of cottages to stay overnight.
We rented a room in station 2 not necessarily over the beach front because it was costly. The place was called Jeromes place where we 4 rested for awhile. Traveling to this place doesn't need to be that staying in a hotel for a long time as they were a lot of activities and excitement once you visited the tourist spot. It's about 2k pesos per night, the room is clean and it was nice.
Afterwards we headed over the beachfront just 2 minutes walk from our hotel. While walking it's like a place where there are numerous other nationalities around who booked themselves to go here and there are also fellow filipinos who still visits the place as it was really fun.
Well, things have changed o my second time around here in this place, unlike before that it's still not yet fully developed, now there are lots of bars, cafe, restaurants over the beach front. They are all just walking distance and you'll just pass by in a straight line.Although there are bars and infrastructures that are outside the beachfront but there are people who are just winding up in the beachfront.
We swam a little bit and headed up to eat in one of the resto near the mall.
We headed back to our hotel to get some shower.... and the most awaited night is about to approach (of course! Party!). We ate dinner over some of the filipino restaurants.
After dinner, we searched for some cocktail drinks and enjoyed bar hoping.
Then we headed to some of the bars to dance a bit.
It was fun partying all night but we headed back to our room to get some rest.
The following morning we had to get up for breakfast and lunch as we woke up late around 1pm so we headed again towards the mall to get some food. It was already 3pm when we had reservations for island hoping. The man told us it was rough but still we pursued our plan.
We visited only one island because we can't go further as the sea was rough.
We also went snorkeling in a place where there are less waves.
This pic was in crystal cove island. We are already late so the cave was closed. I advise to do the island hoping early in the morning to avoid rush and have an enough time to enjoy and see the other islands.
We headed back at dawn.
there was an organized party along our way and we decided to stay it was 500 pesos drink all you can.
It was our last night but we enjoyed the most out of it.
In the morning, We had breakfast near our place. we packed our things to be ready for pick up as we are going back again to bacolod.
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