Hello again. Today I will relate what I did from the 2nd to the 8th of December.
On the 2nd I flew to Boracay, where I stayed until the 5th. Boracay is a small but nice island, mostly famous for its nightlife and beaches. According to Travel+Leisure Boracay is considered the second best island in the world, Palawan (where I went the previous week) being the first.
I mostly went to the beaches, visited the mall, and I went ou at night. The beach is actually quite nice, the water is calm (which is also nice sometimes, even though I personally prefer big waves) and the sand is white. The bars, next to the beach, are also quite nice. I tried to do other activities, such as kitesurfing and flyboarding, but the first was too expensive and I needed more people for the second one.
The most interesting thing about it was probably the blackout: apparently the electricity in certain parts of the islands is cut out periodically, and when I was there my hostel was in that part. Because it was quite new, it didn't have a generator there, which means that my whole stay in the hostel was without electricity (except for 30 minutes after they finally installed the generator-it broke down again afterwards). Which was quite hard at night, as the only light we had was from candles, an also when we had to take a shower, as we had to decide between complete darkness or showering with an open door.
On the 5th I flew to Manilla, the capital of the Philippines, located in the island of Luzon . There I met the son of the business associate and his friends, and stayed in his apartment.
In Manilla we went to a theme park (Star City), filled with rides and whatnot, and also to Intramuros, a district filled with structures from the Spanish occupation, where we visited forts, a museum, and prisons in the Fort Santiago, where the Filipino hero José Rizal was imprisoned.
We also took a bus to the Taal Volcano in the same island. This is a very interesting volcano as it is located in a lake, but also contains a lake inside its crater. We took a boat to cross the bigger lake and then swam in the smaller one.
On the 2nd I flew to Boracay, where I stayed until the 5th. Boracay is a small but nice island, mostly famous for its nightlife and beaches. According to Travel+Leisure Boracay is considered the second best island in the world, Palawan (where I went the previous week) being the first.
I mostly went to the beaches, visited the mall, and I went ou at night. The beach is actually quite nice, the water is calm (which is also nice sometimes, even though I personally prefer big waves) and the sand is white. The bars, next to the beach, are also quite nice. I tried to do other activities, such as kitesurfing and flyboarding, but the first was too expensive and I needed more people for the second one.
The most interesting thing about it was probably the blackout: apparently the electricity in certain parts of the islands is cut out periodically, and when I was there my hostel was in that part. Because it was quite new, it didn't have a generator there, which means that my whole stay in the hostel was without electricity (except for 30 minutes after they finally installed the generator-it broke down again afterwards). Which was quite hard at night, as the only light we had was from candles, an also when we had to take a shower, as we had to decide between complete darkness or showering with an open door.
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| The hostel at night |
On the 5th I flew to Manilla, the capital of the Philippines, located in the island of Luzon . There I met the son of the business associate and his friends, and stayed in his apartment.
In Manilla we went to a theme park (Star City), filled with rides and whatnot, and also to Intramuros, a district filled with structures from the Spanish occupation, where we visited forts, a museum, and prisons in the Fort Santiago, where the Filipino hero José Rizal was imprisoned.
We also took a bus to the Taal Volcano in the same island. This is a very interesting volcano as it is located in a lake, but also contains a lake inside its crater. We took a boat to cross the bigger lake and then swam in the smaller one.
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| Statues at Star City |
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| Canon at an old wall in Intramuros |
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| Statue of Rizal in his own cell |
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| Our boat, sailing on the outer lake |
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| The volcano (the whole island is actually) |
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| Me with the crater lake in the background (the small island in the lake is an island in a lake in an island in a lake in an island) |
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