Boracay Island
- January 10, 2001
- Rated 4 of 5 by
Close to Home from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Boracay is a really beautiful island, full of palm trees and small hotel/ resorts that blended rather than consumed the landscape. Blue, blue water about 80 degrees and a sun so warm 15 minutes in it was my limit. Friendly staff were found at the hotel/ restaurants along with an abundance of stray dogs that roamed freely among the guests.
My favorite part of my weekend to Boracay took place on Saturday afternoon. Sitting on the beach, my colleagues and I were constantly accosted by all sorts of peddlars selling everything under the fun- jewelry, fake rolexes, sunglasses, fruit, ice cream, and other miscellaneous trinkets. Also being offered were massages on the beach! For $10, you could get a 45 minute full body massage and we all jumped on the chance! It was fantastic- I relaxed on a mat on the sand, underneath the palm trees, with the sound of the waves and soft music from the outside bar drifting by. Afterwards, we were all so relaxed we bordered on comatose. It was definitely the highlight of the weekend!
From journal Manila and the Business Traveler