Boracay Baby!

We went to Boracay for the weekend with a wonderful bunch of friends. You can fly to Caticlan or Kalibo. Our flight was scheduled through Kalibo, which meant we had to take a bus ride from Kalibo to Caticlan boat station and from there we had to take a boat across the channel to Boracay. Kalibo is the bigger of the two airports. It's actually an international airport strangely enough. It really is a small airport, so it was surprising to find out it's an international airport. 

The crowd...or at least most of them. 

               Lindsay and I in our ever so stylish hats. 

Zest Air flight to Kalibo. 

Brad and myself at the airport.

Boat station at Caticlan.

On the boat :-)

Heading to our transport from the boat station to the hotel.

Boracay Boat station.

Our ride to the hotel was a blast. No aircon on a hot Philippine day in a tin can! 

Transport ... more fun in the Philippines!

Our transport.

Boracay main road?

I couldn't manage a day without a mango shake, or two, or three, each day. They definitely cooled me down even better than soda!

Mango Shake at Ole.

Lunch at Ole. 

Finally we got down to the beach Saturday afternoon. I was totally desperate to get down to the beach and I was definitely not disappointed!

Boracay Beach Pic :-)

The man himself :-) 

The sunsets at Boracay are beautiful. 

Very near to our hotel, the D'Mall is where most of the shops and a bunch of restaurants are. It reminded me of a Philippine version of Key West. 

D'Mall

D'Mall Main Street

Jonah's is the main spot for fruit shakes. Well worth the walk from the D'Mall. 

At night, all the restaurants along the beach move their deck chairs out the way and set up tables for dinner on the sand. Really cool!

Random pic during our walk along the beach.

Boracay overcast.

 We took a trike to meet everyone at Kasbah for dinner. We were dropped off at Fridays and then walked through the resort to the beach. Kasbah is right near Fridays. It was really interesting to walk down the hill and finally find this sign board with evac routes during emergencies. It was really interesting to see that the earthquake route was directed away from the water. Clearly because earthquakes mean there is a risk of Tsunami's.

Earthquake emergency evac route was away from the water...interesting!

More sunsets from night number 2. 

My friend Lindsay and her family.

Dinner at Kasbah.

We had dinner on the beach at a Moroccan restaurant on Sunday night. The decor was cool for a beach restaurant. 

Kasbah Restaurant.

The Boracay Bunch!

More of the Boracay Bunch!

After dinner we took a walk along the beach in the opposite direction to the walk the previous night. There were a number of restaurants that displayed seafood. Very interesting. 

Finally we had to go home :-( On the boat, back to Caticlan, a little more pink than when we arrived!