Pacific Breeze Hotel & Resort
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Day 1 . . . 2 Hotels & a Block Party
First full day in PI. Wow...awoke in the Philippines. And unfortunately the day time hours light up the Orchid Inn, and my room :( My door to the hotel room was nothing more then a very thin door that could have been a closet door with a wobbly knob and no idea if the lock worked, TV didn't work, and some guy banging on the street, outside my …
Olangapo/Subic
Olangapo is a city that I thought was near some nice water and a bay. It is a port for old navy and marines. There is not much here except a few model airplanes and monuments from war and I'm not sure why I came here because the bay is not swimmable and very dirty. It is polluted with oil from the boats. Across the river from Olangapo ...
Last stop in the Philippines for now
... out any extra cash for some air con. What they don't tell you is that every room has an extremely powerful ceiling fan that works just fine, as I was actually rather chilly with it all the way on. Besides that, they have a nice, hot water shower free of charge! I somehow also lucked out and got fulltime access to their wifi with no additional charge...but I'm not going to complain!
Next stop: Kota ...
Back to see the Angels in Angeles
... to Angeles again anytime soon until I find a big hotel close to the action with a decent swimming pool to hang out in during the day.
But night time is still quite a lot of fun. People watching and then Gogo bar hopping until the wee hours of the morning. With most drinks between $3-5 you can drink and buy drinks for others ...
The depths of respect
... sea snake makes a dash to the surface for air. A banana-yellow pipefish darts and hovers about the corals, sea cucumbers and brisling sea urchin spines like a dragonfly. Cute little clown fish (Nimos!) in costumes of all colours frolic in and out of the protection of stinging sea anenomes. We hover for 3 minutes at 5 metres to breathe off the nitrogen compressed into our blood by the pressure, so that it doesn’t bubble out in our brains on the surface.
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