When we began discussing where to go on our long adventure, I thought we might need an actual vacation first – something with sun and palm trees, maybe even huts on stilts. Tahiti or Fiji seemed like a great place to go, until we looked at the typical January weather, turns out it rains there. After a bit of research, Boracay – a tiny island in the Philippines – seemed a great place to start, as it is also remarkably cheap to get to from SF (a direct flight to Manila runs a few times a week).
To get to the island, we flew an hour south from Manila to Kalibo, spent 2 hours on a bus, and had a quick boat ride. The bus ride was our first (fairly tame) experience of being on Asian roads, complete with tricycles making all kinds of daring maneuvers and discovering why they don’t bother painting the center line in the road. We arrived at the hotel at last and immediately changed from the clothes we’d been in for the last 36 hours to beach appropriate attire.
Though the island itself is a bit more touristy than we usually like, once we had our first meal of grilled seafood and beer right next to the ocean, we were ready to embrace doing nothing by the beach for a little while. We are in Boracay for a week, so I suspect our itch for adventure will creep in soon and we’ll be ready to get to the meat of our trip.
So far we have traveled:
16 hours by plane
5 hours by airport bench
2 hours by bus
15 minutes by boat
10 minutes by tricycle
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- Tricycle traffic on the roads of Kalibo.
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- Rice field scenery on the bus ride from Kalibo to Boracay.
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- Boats on our way to Boracay
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- Our first meal and drinks in Boracay.
Hello guys!
After checking facebook for several times for impressions of your newest adventures I remembered the mentioning of the blog and went there, oh well, I mean here… So here I am, just read everything and ready for more…
BTW, I also just discovered that somehow I missed the moment when week three of your honeymoon was published – great pictures, thank you!