فانسنت [فندرفكن]

يضع حوالي 350 [كم] إلى أسفل جنوبيّة من مانيلاّ في [فيسس], [بوركي] خرافيّة شاطئ غاية أن يكتشف. يرتّب فقط في 7 [كم] طويلا ب 2 يوسع هو جزيرة صغيرة استوائيّة نسبيّا أنّ يتلقّى حصص أن يقدّم. فقط أن يرى هو [4كم] شاطئ طويلة مشهورة بيضاء يكون جيّدة يساوي الرحلة هو غير أنّ يتلقّى الجزيرة ب بنفسي حوالي 30 شواطئ وخيران ل أنت إلى اختاروا ويكتشف. بعض [إسي وف كّسّ] بقدم بينما أخرى يتطلّب [ا بيت وف] سباحة أن يكون بلغت. بالتّعاقب سيأخذ يستأجر خارجا [بنك] أنت حول [ألّ وف ي] ووراء. في الواقع مجهولة 25 سنون [أغو] ينمو هو يتلقّى سريعا داخل واحدة من فليبين كثير غاية نفيسة. [بوركي] يأتي من ال الكلمة `[بورك]' أيّ يكون قطن في إنجليزيّة يحيل النسيج ولون من هو يكون رمل.

السابقة ليال كان نوم قصيرة (حوالي 2 ½ ساعات) وك نحن يسارا فندقنا في مانيلاّ حوالي 5 أنا كان بعد في دولة حالمة يتساءل إن على وصولي إن الماء كان بما أنّ أصليّة & إن الرمل حقّا تلقّى أنّ بيضاء مسحوق إحساس مثل هو نظر على الصور أنا كان قد رأى.

السريعة واحدة ساعة رحلة من مانيلاّ إلى [كليبو] مع سيبو [بسفيك] هواء ذهب جيّدا وسلّيت نحن كان بالطاقم بحّارة وهم مشهورة [أن بوأرد] يخمّن لعب. بما أنّ معتادة كان الطائرة حوالي 30 دقائق متأخّرا غير أنّ الذي حقّا لاحظ [أنوس] بما أنّ نحن نكون فوق وقت فليبينيّة…

ينتأ قبل يطلع الرحلة بعد إلى حدّ ما كثير نعسانة بما أنّ يستطيع كنت

من هناك أنت داخل ل آخر 90 دقائق سيارة أو حافلة عمليّة ركوب إلى المعدية انتهائيّة أنّ يكون على الطرف شماليّة من الجزيرة رئيسيّة. هو ليس واقعيّا أنّ سيّئ بما أنّ هو أعطىني لمحي أولى من حياة فليبينيّة ريفيّة أيّ يكون جدّا مختلفة من الواحدة من الرأس مال. أنت تستطيع إن أنت تكون في إستعجال ذبابة مباشرة من مانيلاّ إلى [كتيكلن] رحلة مع كحول آسيويّة أو [سير] وتخطّيت ال 90 دقائق إنتقال على صغيرة 20-30 يجلس طائرات. [كتيكلن] مدرج مثل قصيرة بما أنّ يحصل هو وفقط هذا جديات الطائرات كانوا يمكن أن يهبط وغادرت من.

Now comes the final part of our journey the 20 minutes Banca ride to Boracay which was quite a fun experience to board one of those vessels onto the sea:

Leaving the Banca ferry terminal

As a few other Bancas approach

View of the main island from the sea

View from inside the banca

Land at last ! Here we are approaching Boracay

First glimpse of Boracay is quite impressive

And now after checking in at our hotel time to actually go and take a first hand look (and snap a few pictures) of the famous White Beach.

Final verdict ?

I was totally overwhelmed by its beauty! It’s the kind of place that you would only imagine possible to be true in Martini advertisements… But its booming, Leif who had been there just three years previously could hardly recognize a lot of the places. Every square foot of beach front left seem to have been almost bought and developed. A walk along the palm trees will reveal restaurants serving food from corner of the globe: German, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Indian, Thai, Caribbean, Scandinavian, etc. you name it! The old native style bamboo huts are almost all gone and what’s left is a modern strip of hotels with everything from small bars to all out night raves and discos.

Ah yes this isn’t the worst place to be stranded is it?

more or less in front of our hotel

The other side with me unable to open my eyes due to the blazing sun

More of white beach at station 2 & 3

And now for a bumpy tricycle ride up to the top of the island on Mount Luho which is the highest point of Boracay which is around 100 meters high. The round trip should take you just under an hour.

From where you can an excellent good view of the island and its surrounding

I am finally able to open my eyes a bit at last here

Now for a look all around the different sides of Mount Luho

Monkeys on mount Luho

Pickpockets!

Cute looking little monkeys aren’t they ?

Even one peso coins gets them going

Divers returning on White Beach

Now for a White beach station 2 & 1 picture flood…

A feel of walking around the island

White Beach at station one

The extreme northern tip of white beach

Diniwib beach

Balinghai Beach

Pictures of the sunset at Boracay

Picture from one of Leif’s friend home, a native woman that was one of the first to come in Boracay here 2o+ some years ago living with Bill, an American that left to visit Asia in 1972 and never made it back home.

You can rent one of their rooms here for the year at $2500. The Zone is wi-fi as most staying here make money from the internet working at home.

and after sunset the hostilities start & our first night of two nights out…

My mistake here telling the Canadian owner/bartender that his drinks were a bit light since a bottle of local Tanduay Rhum is 40 pesos in a sari-sari store (PS: 1$ CAD = 45 pesos today).
We Both woke up still drunk hopefully an Australian couple we had met the day before had a hangover cure the next day for us.

Another beautiful day at the beach doing just about nothing…

There are many activities possible though that range from: scuba diving, horse riding, kayaking, island hopping, renting motorcycles, all terrain vehicles and much more, etc.

And here our last night together already well in full gear…

Leif had of course to take over the bar and prepare his own special drinks to our new half Filipino but swiss raised friend that had a little time off while his girlfriend was sleeping.

Ready when you are

Ok light it up !

1-2-3.. GO!

Job DONE! Now the hardest part inhaling the alcohol fumes

And our last stop at an unnamed bar.

PS: notice the nice girls in the back

These are the Very very obvious trannies you can only see coming out late at night … Others are very hard to differentiate.

Be very careful what you bring back with you. The previous day two Arabs we talked to late at night(one from Dubai & the other from Saudi Arabia) seemed to clueless they were picking up ladyboys. I am sure they were in for quite some surprise…

That was quite the inside joke of the night.

Leif’s forces slowly dying out. Can’t blame him, its after all his last day of his 3rd week in the Philippines.

Trannie Alert!

Last picture took of Leif before he leaves to bed. His flight is earlier than me & he must be awake by 5 AM to be among the first to chose his seats online for the plane to Norway. Gladly I stayed on a bit

A quick stolen picture of my last day in Boracay having brunch with the lovely presence of Anne Sy (quite a pretty Filipino/Chinese I met the evening before). Leif’s presence has been at last upgraded !

Life is very harsh for some… Raised solely by her grandma and struggling to survive she came 2 months previously to Boracay where the tourism jobs are booming. Still not much to eek out a living for a single mother but they never like to be taken in pity. They accept what fate brings them.. I could imagine a few worst places to be obliged to live while being poor anyways

She said hello last week online so I had to do her justice & add her into my pictures with a more proper one of her.

A few hours later I was on my way for Cebu city. This time I left from from the small airport of Caticlan with Asian Spirit airlines. The flight was one hour late this time & aboard a tiny aircraft. I was a bit uneasy since instead of the usual English emergency exit writing inside this model was all in Russian. Made me think I was boarding some old USSR Aeroflot aircraft. The speakers also made very a weird sound.

A few last pictures of various boats in Boracay