We came to visit Boracay during lean season and I thought we'd have the island to ourselves because, well, it's lean season. This was my first time and I was stupid enough to think that the country's number 1 tourist spot would be crowd-less on the last week of September. But the scene in Caticlan airport showed otherwise. It didn't sink in to me that people from all over the world have heard about Boracay through various media until we reached the jetty port and boy was it pretty crowded. I checked my calendar after asking myself, is it summer yet?
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This is part 5 of the series I'm writing for our Coron trip. You may check the other posts here: CORONicles Day 1: Touchdown Coron CORONicles Day 2: Coron Island Loop Tour CORONicles Day 3: Malcapuya Loop Tour CORONicles Day 4: What Should've Been An Awesome Calumbuyan Tour June 03, 2012 Alas, it was time for us to leave this paradise and go back to the metro. I honestly wanted to stay just for the Calumbuyan Tour. But it was time to go home :'( After the fun in the sun, it's time to face math! So, how much did our 5D/4N Coron trip cost? Itinerary and expenses after the jump.
This is part 4 of the series I'm writing for our Coron trip. You may check the other posts here: CORONicles Day 1: Touchdown Coron CORONicles Day 2: Coron Island Loop Tour CORONicles Day 3: Malcapuya Loop Tour CORONicles Day 5: Wrap Up and Post-Travel Accounting June 02, 2012, Saturday 07:00AM
It was raining. Hard. Like thunderstorms and lightning. Cats and dogs. Chickens and eggs. Wait, whuuuut? At least you get the point, it was not the best time to go island hopping. This morning Ms. Gigi told us to wait for the rain to stop before we head to the wharf. Calumbuyan is far from Coron town, more or less 2 hours by boat. It would be too dangerous for us to continue the tour with this kind of weather, especially that we had a 2 year-old kid in the group. I was begging Papa Jesus to stop the rain so we could go to Calumbuyan. After two days in the sea, we still hadn't had enough. We wanted moooooaaar. This is part 3 of the series I'm writing for our Coron trip. You may check the other posts here: CORONicles Day 1: Touchdown Coron CORONicles Day 2: Coron Island Loop Tour CORONicles Day 4: What Should've Been An Awesome Calumbuyan Tour CORONicles Day 5: Wrap Up and Post-Travel Accounting June 01, 2012 , Friday 07:00AM
After a tiring but fulfilling hike on the first day and an "intro" tour on the second, we were excited as hell to see what else Coron had to offer. It didn't help that I've seen Coron three years ago because I was still the most excited among the bunch :)) I was fidgety the whole morning and couldn't wait for for the others to finish breakfast. This post is the second of the series I am writing for our Coron trip. The first post can be viewed here: CORONicles Day 1: Touchdown Coron CORONicles Day 3: Malcapuya Loop tour CORONicles Day 4: What Should've Been An Awesome Calumbuyan Tour CORONicles Day 5: Wrap Up and Post-Travel Accounting May 31, 2012, Thursday 06:30AM
We all had a good night sleep and woke up early to prepare for our island hopping tour. Waking up to the sounds of nature was something we, as urban nocturnal creatures, badly needed. The room that we had in Gran Vista was a basic fan room. We didn't need A/C rooms as the cool wind of the province was more than enough to lull us to sleep. Even though we were really exhausted from climbingMt. Tapyas the day before, we were all enthusiastic about the day's activities. This is part 1 of the series I'm writing for Coron. You may check the other posts here: CORONicles Day 2: Coron Island Loop Tour CORONicles Day 3: Malcapuya Loop tour CORONicles Day 4: What Should've Been An Awesome Calumbuyan Tour CORONicles Day 5: Wrap Up and Post-Travel Accounting May 30, 2012, Wednesday
We all know how difficult it is to get RT tickets during seat sale (which, by the way, is becoming a weekly showdown among budget carriers -- hallelujah!). We all know it's muuuuuch more difficult for big groups. During Cebu Pacific's February 14 sale, I was able to book tickets to Busuanga for 7 people. It's a miracle having booked 7 people at the same time, so you could just imagine how ecstatic I was. Unfortunately, I was able to book one-way tickets only. Bummer! I didn't want to let go of the one-way tickets even if it meant we had to anxiously wait for another round of seat sales. The upcoming waves of sales from Cebu Pacific, however, didn't give us some love. Our travel period was May 30 to June 3, and tickets were becoming pricier as the days passed by. On March 18, though, I saw Airphil Express' P596 base fare sale and grabbed the chance to book seven Busuanga-Manila tickets. I was happy but scared at the same time. There are plenty of reasons to be scared.
That's what I'm gonna say on May 29, 2012 -- the day before our trip to enchanting Coron. Or maybe on the 28th, or 27th because I'm that EGGGZZZOOOITED. Three loooong months of waiting and now we're down to just 9 slow days. And what's gonna be in our bags? ♥ Camera - because Coron is photogenic, very photogenic. ♥ Underwater casing - Coron ain't just about the limestone formations yo! XD ♥ Swimsuit - kebs na ang katabaan, I wan't some tan lines ;p I hope the weather's going to be all good when we visit Coron. Oh well, we still have 9 days to do our own rendition of sun dance! :)
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I have never seen a beach as rocky as the one we visited in Narvacan, Ilocos Sur. I can't even remember if I saw a grain of sand along that stretch of pebbles and stones of different sizes. The heat was becoming intolerable so we all decided to leave Baluarte at 02:30 PM. There was nothing much to see there anyways. I wanted to visit the other museums in Vigan but we were already exhausted from walking along Calle Crisologo and Baluarte on a very hot day. We thought we didn't have any energies left to even walk because it seemed like the summer heat had sucked all our power but the sight of the picture-perfect Quirino Bridge in the town of Bantay made us jump from our seats and got us excited to explore the rocky beach that we had seen earlier in the day.
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