27Jun2025 - This is turning into a journal/journey-down-memory-lane thing. I'm looking through my old photo albums, and at the same time, other memories and thoughts are popping up in my mind. This is what old(er) people do, yes? 9May2025 - I decided to leave FB, and just share my photos etc here. Thank you to the special people who check in here...(7Dec2022 - crlazlo meanderings 2 is now 2.1 - I will continue to use it as a preview/workspace for my FB posts, but I will also start organizing the many photos from my retirement years, and also start a journal/memories thing. That's the plan anyway.)

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Our first evening in Boracay was a mix of travel tiredness and "wow...this is so cool..." Our journey had us leaving our place in Cebu by plane around 1:30pm. After taxi and bus rides to get to the airport, and the plane ride itself to Panay Island, it was late in the afternoon. We got a tricycle ride to the port and hopped on a small boat to go over to Boracay Island. There, we took an E Trike to go to our hotel. After checking in, we walked a short 10 or 15 minutes to the "D-Mall", a large meandering village-like area with restaurants and shops between the main N/S road on Boracay and the 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) stretch of white sand beaches with the hotels, restaurants and shops that parallels the main rode. We had a Thai dinner at the "Thai Basil" restaurant in the D-Mall. Many of the restaurants have open air fronts. Inday is shown here visiting with one of the waitresses who was leaning against the Thai woman statue when I wandered out in front to take some photos. These were not my best photos. I got better after a good night's sleep. We bought one of the coconuts displayed by our table to drink with our meal for p100. The vendors who push their carts by our place in Cebu charge p50 (90c US). Following dinner, we wandered through D-Mall to the beach, and walked down the long stretch of beach front with all the hotels, more restaurants and shops. There were coconut trees all along there, between the beach itself and the hotels etc row. My first Boracay photo post in this blog had some night shots from that walk.

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