It's more fun in the Philippines Part 4 (Boracay Trip Day 3)

After days of waking up early, we were glad to be sleeping in for once. We woke up just early enough for breakfast at Willy's before it end at 10am. The best part about breakfast at Willy's was just the egg station and the fact that it's free, the rest of the food are just bearable and so-so. It's still nice to sit at the cafe early in the morning, watch the waves and the tourists stroll around the beach, some of them will even come in for some finger food and drinks as the location of our hotel is simply awesome. After a chilly night, there were still occasional showers, the air is much cooler than the time we first arrived on Boracay. It seems that we always bring rain whenever we get to a nice beach destination, its kind of sad as the waters are more tempting when its warm and nice.

A cup of taho 

We spotted Uncle Rene walking around the beachfront, so we guessed he probably did not find any customer for the day. Even though parasailing is on our to-do list after our Langkawi trip in April, we still felt like lazing around for the day, so we asked Uncle Rene to get us on a parasailing trip later that afternoon. After we got our fourth round of Jonah's shake (Papaya Banana for me this time), I saw one of the vendors on the beach with a metal container. P told me they are selling taho (filipino version of soya bean curd), its quite interesting as the vendors are roaming around like how they do it in China. Even though the taho came in lots of brown syrup and sago, it wasnt as sweet as I had imagined, and its soft enough to be poured down the throat, thus it came in a cup.

Our hotel, with a strategic location, also 'sell' the beach chair for lounging

P and I are on our 15th overseas trip together, and we are great traveling partners as we simply like to bum around! Its not easy to find a good traveling partner with similar energy levels such that we will all enjoy the trip together, more often than not, I'm the one feeling tired easily and needed time to 'nuah' in the hotel. Anyway, instead of spending time wandering around Boracay and doing stuff (there's so much more to see and do), we went back to our room to watch 'Back to the Future' movie series and take our nap. We finally got out of the room at 4pm to check if Uncle Rene can bring us parasailing, but we realised the weather condition must be quite bad as there were only surfers at the beachfront, we did not see boats out at the sea. With hopes of doing anymore activities dashed, we decided to just enjoy the beach and the sea, so we swam in the shallow seawater and played with the surf at the beachfront. Even though we only did helmet diving and snorkelling for this trip, it gave us more reasons to be back at Boracay again someday.

As hotel guest, we can use the beach chairs anytime, most of them were always available when we were there.

The rain started to fall heavily as we swam, so we got out of the sea, wrapped ourselves in the beach towels issued by the hotel (those beach towels are real life saviours in keeping us warm!) and headed out looking for food as we did not have lunch. P was craving for sisig (again!) and fries, I remember Boracay Kitchen just across the street from our hotel was recommended in another blog, so we decided to head there to look for some food. Unfortunately, Boracay Kitchen was not opened. But we were soon thankful for that, as we found a gem just next door! The eatery is Kolai Mangyan Fudhaws (foodhouse?), a 24h small filipino establishment serving typical filipino stuff, good and cheap. One thing we realised about Boracay, anything found just a little further away from the beach tend to be cheaper than those at thebeachfront. The were some other tourists and locals having their meals there, seeking some warmth from the rain. They served unlimited Bulalo soup before our orders came, its common for filipino eateries to do that and a nice gesture in the rainy weather. It's the first time I tried fresh lumpia with gravy (once again, filipinos loved their sauce gravy), it's quite refreshing although I would prefer it without it drowning in the gravy. The sisig came and it was nice too, for Boracay price standard it was also considered cheap. As we were swimming in the sea before this meal, I did not bring my phone and thus there's no pictures taken.

The sky didnt look good but it was one of our last time lazing at the beach

We finished the satisfying meal just as the sun was setting, went back to the hotel to shower and hide from the cold evening. P took a nap and I only managed to wake him up at 10pm, the previous meal was supposed to be merienda (light snacks) but it turned out to be our dinner. It was still drizzling outside but we decided to venture out again since this is our last night at Boracay and we still have a fries mission to fulfil. The rain stopped slightly when we headed out, we walked along the beachfront towards Station 2 as P spotted a 'Potato Corner' there the previous night and he also wanted the banana split from Crazy Crepes. We equipped ourselves with an umbrella and also the big towels from the hotel which had proven effective against the rain and the cold. The rain came down heavily again when we finally reached Potato Corner, so we sat down to finish off this monstrous and sinful big tub of fries dipped in unhealthy flavoured MSG powder. I did not really want to eat too much of those unhealthy stuff, but there was nothing to do except to consume them since we were stuck in the shop.

Travel out on a cold rainy night just for this big tub of sinfulness

We finally got sick of the fries and the rain stopped momentarily again, so we decided to head back to the hotel. Once again, we decided to take the tricycle back since it was a cheaper and faster way. We were also worried that the rain will pour down again any moment. One weird thing about Boracay, at the area near our hotel, it was just a short walk of few metres when we want to get to the street from the beach. However, at Station 2 and 3, we had to walk through these alleys for at least ten minutes. It was also further to travel back to our hotel when taking the road, although it was just a straight path along the beachfront. Anyway, the small streets behind those shops were flooded after the rain, and we were treading carefully since the water was ankle deep! We were wading through the flood when P pointed out something, I looked up and saw the signage to D'Talipapa.. Zzz.. After looking for it for the past two nights, I finally found it when we were making our way through the flooded alley on our last night here.

We got on the tricycle shortly, found our way back to the hotel, packed up and got knocked out soon.