Nostalgic Reminiscence: Stanza ll

The first thing I think of when I woke- Breakfast! Breakfast can affect my mood of the day, hence, good breakfast is crucial =P . As usual, toasted bread, an egg which look more to like a duck egg, and the most funny thing was, I was thinking to have a cup of Milo instead of coffee (I'm 'allergy' towards caffeine), and we've found a bottle of brown color powder, without hesitation, I had 4 spoonful of powder into my cup (I love concentrated drink), and added with small amount of hot water. Who knows! That was coffee! Imagine, concentrated coffee, I was like ouch, if I get to drink this 'concentrated coffee', I'll be having tachycardia for whole day. After the silly acts, we've got to pack our luggages and move out from this hostel, reluctantly. Before leaving, one-spot-one-photo again.

Oh well, our lovely hostel personnel finger. Not to forget this blue wavy hair lady. The signature mural in this hostel.

Not to forget instax, Parkinson's stimulated-mode

After these photo sections, we gotta say goodbye to MNL. We'd spotted few cheap hotels/hostels a day before, thus, we excitedly moved everything from MNL to the new hotel. And guess what, we were bounded back to MNL at last. A communication breakdown between both parties leads to this incident. MNL was occupied and we officially declare that we were homeless. Almost an hour of lingering, we decided to move into the newly open hotel, Mecasa hotel, just located right behind MNL. Mecasa is owned by a Korean, operated for less than half year, its rate considers cheap in term of hotel. It's lovely place, a place full of loves, and warmth. The room is not that spacious though, but still enough to accommodate all of our stuffs. Mecasa is actually sided to B&B than a hotel, it is complementary with breakfast and room services provided. Oh well, you can live like a king and queen, and mess like a kid in your room.

Welcoming with LOVE

How creative this map is.

Not to forget how we get the source of our lunch. We'd instant maggies imported from China! Actually it was given by China couple we met in Mecasa. See, full of loves right! Two packs with one sausage shared by four of us. A lil satisfaction in me.

July is forecasted to be a rainy month. And yes, it rains, for few days. The third day night, we got a plan to Pubcrawl, meaning Pubs hopping. Early bird would get a discount, girls can even get a lower price! Total of 5 pubs we hopped, few shots we had and just for 799 pesos. They provide us the yellow tee (you can trim into the shape you wanted) and a small cup. So no worry of the custom you've to wear to a pub.

The tee of the night

With an idea of turning strangers into friends, it's indeed a good place to make new friends. Be wild for a night is worth the price. Partygoers everywhere, so just be part of them as well. Upon entering every pub, you'll get a free drink, and certainly, you'll get a free shots with no reason. Well, random extraction of some photos from PubCrawl's page.

I'd make a conclusion for myself, I'm not a nocturnal animal, and I dislike alcohol, how sad! But it was fun, seriously. A good exercise indeed as you will be waving your head and shaking your body when the music is on. Free drinks, free musics, and free yourselves. Well well, after the fifth pub, you may leave at your own risk and start with your own activities. Where our activity was get back to sleep.

Another day arrive early as usual, we did not experience any post alcohol syndrome luckily. We joined one of the Koreans (Boracay is occupied by Koreans, Koreans are everywhere) to Willy's rocks. One of the signature spots for photo-taking in Station 1 and it's FOC. The tides were strong on that day, we can't even walk properly, sea breeze was strong, and algae was everywhere on the white beach.

Look at the tide!

Here comes the Willy's rocks

Daniel - Evon - Darren - Steve -Willy's rocks

Group Selfie with Willy's!

Oh well, mission accomplished, we managed to take photo with the Willy's after a painful walk. A hot sunny day, milk shake is a must. Jonas's is the most famous milkshakes outlets in Boracay. It has more than 3 outlets or more in within the 3 stations. All the shakes cost you less than 100 pesos. Unless you order those extraordinary shakes, it charges you more. I'd avocado shake, and do try out their coconut shake, the taste is comparable with the one in Malacca's.

There are plenty of coconut trees, but not the bended coconut tree I wanted. Sigh!

Milkshake isn't a thirst quencher, it makes me more thirst. Next we headed to D'Talipapa market, located near to station 3. Quite a distance from Willy's to Talipapa market. The market was quiet when compared with D'mall, this may be due to rainy day. Variety of souvenirs can be found here with cheap price, and most importantly, haggle! I got most of my souvenirs here, things sell are almost the same as in D'mall, but here would be cheaper. They do sell raw seafood in a cheap price too, the highlight of the seafoods is... FRESH. May buy the seafood and cook yourselves if you want, or ask the locals to cook (You've to pay for the ingredients though). Besides, dried mango (60 pesos/pack) is famous in Boracay, a good souvenir to bring back too.

D'Talipapa is one of the good spots with cheap food occupied. Otherwises, Andok's restaurant is meant for those having tight budgets. Yes, we were, hence, we walk in. The price is CHEAP! Not more than 100 pesos per person, and with this price, you'll get chicken or pork with rice. You may request for more rice if you want to, and it's FOC! How awesome it was! The taste is good and the portion is generous enough. Highly recommend this restaurant if you were in tight budget.

A day of non-stop walking, we were tiring and back to hotel to get a short nap. Around 4 pm, we went for sunset at white beach, station 1. A relaxing walk by the beach, with the accompany of sunset.

Sun set

Willy's rocks

Close view of Willy's rocks

Willy's back! XD

Coincidently, we met the China couple here. They were crazy on the jump shots, kept on jumping here and there, such a lovely couple. Since that night was their last night in Boracay, we'd dinner in Greece's restaurant, Cyma, inside D'mall, station 2. In Philippines, we tried greek's food, how special. To me, it is pricey, the spaghetti was big portion, crepe was nice to eat but not the desserts. The mix desserts were a nightmare, perhaps Greece dessert is originally not that 'sweet'.