Tuesday, November 11, 2014

3 days and 2 nights at Boracay Island

Arrived at the airport and there wasn't any need to fret over how to get to the port to Boracay island. There are 5234654312 vendors who will try to get your business. One can opt for bus or a mini van (not much price difference anyway). It's a 2-hour journey to the port (it could be longer if the mini van picks up passengers on the way to the port). Usually, the package includes a ride to the port and boat ride to the island.

Upon reaching the port, we bought our tickets, or rather... paid for the environmental fee and jetty fee. The boat/modified sampan ride was around 15-minutes.

Finally arrived @ Boracay and the first mode of transportation in the island we took was the tuk-tuk! Can you imagine 4 adults fitting and luggages fitting into this small tuk-tuk? Yep... we managed to squeeze our asses in this little transport.
Took the tuk-tuk to our accommodation

 Just in time for sunset!

 Checked into our accommodation: Nigi Nigi Nu Noos. Had a villa each and the room was lovely! :)

 Towels folded into swans. The cleaners will fold a different type of animal each time they clean the room.

 One of the first food that we tried - some grilled sausage from a random stall

 Bought our souvenirs

 J just gotta have his coffee after dinner

ET & I tried their local brew. I still prefer Hacker Pschorr.

 Our villa for the next 2 nights

The next morning after breakfast, we opted for a tour package from the hotel vendor. Selected a package that consists of parasailing, jet skiing, island hopping, snorkelling, ATV ride to the mountain top, zipline and sunset sailing. All for PHP18,000 for 4. It's the low season, so we had the bargaining power.

 Beautiful... just beautiful ;)

 Hello from above!

 Island hopping

 One of the islands that we stopped by so the guys can show macho - cliff jumping. Fun fact tho, for almost everything you do @ Boracay, there's always a certain environmental fee that you need to pay.

 Aloha!

 Riding the ATV all the way up to the mountain then climbed up the stairs to the observatory deck for a birds eye view of the island


 Zip line after enjoying the view

 Ready for sunset sailing!

While sunset sailing... breathtaking view!

We were lucky that even though it was the monsoon season, the daytime weather was superb! Sunny all the way until the end - after dinner where it rained heavily. 

Got burnt and got a tan. Tanned and happy :)

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