Boracay

Boracay is to the Philippines what Cancun is to Mexico, or for what Moncton is to Canada... Ok well I guess Canada does not have an equivalent place but you undertand my drift. Boracay is extremely touristy and crowded, has a beautiful beach and a fairly lively bar scene.

The obvious problem with such places is the cost. Everything costs double what it costs elsewhere. Now this is all relative as in North American standards, it was still cheap, but in the Filipino context it feels like you are busting your budget.

Luckily on the bus ride up to Boracay we met a nice Filipino guy named Chian, or something like that, who guided us to the place we wanted to stay and got us and airconditioned room upgrade for free, he was a nice guy. We bonded on the bus ride when the song 'YMCA' played on the radio and we were both singing along to it. Apparently is is fun to stay at the YMCA if you are a young man. I must look into that when I get back to Canada. Later we were both singing along to a Lionel Richie song. As you can see, Chian and I both have great taste in music.

It was humorous how many Korean tourists there were in Boracay. It was thoroughly saturated with them. For some reason the Philippines draws a ton of Koeans, probably because it is fairly close... My powers of deduction are quite amazing I know.

It is interesting how different Sugar Beach and Boracay are yet how similar the activities we ended up doing were. Sleep late, sit on beach/swim, drink at night. It wa a fun time all in all but after 4 nights there it was definately time to be moving on.