Boracay Island

Llegamos a Boracay luego de un corto vuelo en avión desde Manila, luego unas 2 horas en van para llegar al pueblito desde donde había que hacer un cruce en barco de unos 10 minutos (donde obviamente hubo que pagar el derecho de usar el embarcadero y un par de cosas más) y finalmente tomar un tipo taxi que son unas motos con un agregado lateral que …

The Chronicles of Boracay Island: Island History

Buracay is Boracay

It is an island truly beautiful, sometimes sinful, always controversial. This makes it intriguing and causes people to return again and again, if they cannot linger for a lifetime. Its rich History dates back in the early 17th-8th Century.

Boracay is more …

... taxi, and lastly a 10-minute hike was all it took for us to get from our hotel in Manila to our guest house on the island of Boracay. If only we'd had a chance to take a train as well then we would have taken just about every form of non-animal transport ...

On occasion, you take a picture and the light is just how you'd like it and the subject comes out perfectly...this picture represents island life here in the Philipiines to me - the beauty of the islands is seen in the mixture of color and light and ...

By just about any measure, Boracay is the number one beach destination in the Philippines. Although we’ve developed a certain beach expertise (and I think we still have that beach walk swagger) from our stay in the south of Thailand, we were ...

Boracay is an island in the west of the Philippines and is THE beach destination in the Philippines. They say when you meet any Filipino they will always say "you must go to Boracay". So, I flew off to Boracay from Cebu on a tiny little bubble of an ...

... a traveling support team (two nurses and a doctor) to look after Ami and allow John and Carol to have a real holiday. Boracay island is a holiday destination well known to Filipinos and kite surfing types but not on the western tourist map yet. ...

So many things about our arrival on the island of Boracay should have made us squeal with excitement. Our first ride in a trike, piled in with our bags under our feet, clinging on for dear life as we tore through the streets choking on the petrol fumes; ...

Boracay, Philippines - In many respects, this is my ideal of hell. Loud music, loud people, excessive drinking and not being able to hear anyone talk so I normally find any excuse to leave and go back to sleep. I spoke to a few people before I travelled ...

... we wandered around at 3.00 in the morning trying to find a place that we could sleep. The next morning we caught a boat to Boracay. This island is supposed to have some of the best beaches in the world. Personally I think if a beach does not have surf it ...

... is that travelling there is pretty straightforward, the places pick themselves for the most part and they follow a basic sensible route. The Philippines on the other hand looks like someone had a curry then took a shit next to Malaysia. In short it's ...

... 830 am classes and roll in all tanned with our bags, and were just like, "sorry, just got back from the Philippines" pretty baller.  Epilogue Pat has been in bed for 48 hours straight since getting back, dinner last night was the first ...