More of the Philippine Islands

Sabang was great, but I had to get on the move. It was such a sleepy little town, until the 'Discos' got kicking about 10pm!
I met two girls from Denmark that were also going to the next hot spot, Boracay. The trip down was a long hard road, well path actually. It started on the Jeepney to Puerto Galera, not a bad ride about 20 min. The next leg was a Jeepney to Calapan. Well, the Jeepney was FULL before we got in, three Westerners with large backpacks! It was quite the spectacle. I sat on the rear tailgate with an older Filipino guy. He would switch from hanging off the back to sitting when the monsoon rain got too bad for him! The road was not paved for much of the journey and I'm pretty sure we almost slid down the mountain a few times. The views were beautiful though. Next was a minivan from Calapan to Roxas, uneventful but long. In Roxas we were to take a ferry to Caticlan, but the ferry was leaving as we were getting out of the minivan. Oh well we weren't planning on catching it until 6pm, we arrived at 1pm. Well the guy at the port said we were better off taking the 12am boat because it was a four hour ride and once in the smaller town of Caticlan the ferry to Boracay didn't leave until 6am the next morning. Had we taken the 6pm ferry we'd have to sleep there in Caticlan. We waited, and waited.


Well, 11pm rolls around and I decide to find out about tickets. Well, the same port guy, after a few minutes of deciphering, said the midnight ferry wasn't running due to the rains knocking a bridge out. It was a roll on roll off ferry so no cars/buses, no ferry! We waited and took the 6am ferry to Caticlan. Then got the 9:30am or so ferry to Boracay. Moving around the Philippine islands is difficult.

I found a room at a place called Sander's White. Near Boat Station 2 on White Beach. It is P500 a night, so roughly $12.

I went kiteboarding for two days at Isla Kiteboarding
I got level three IKO certified! It only took 4 hours for me with instructor JoJo. It was a great time!

Another pic of White Beach.

The weather hasn't been great, so I'll take more when the sun comes out and there's actually something to look at!

I will stay here in Boracay until Tuesday, probably. There is a group of kitesurfers coming from around the world to film a video starting Sunday. Hopefully the wind will pick up while I'm here in Boracay.