Blogalicious: Boracay (Day 1): The Long Travel

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Our shuttle service from office to the airport will leave at 6AM. And since April and I were just near the office, we woke up at around 5AM and we still manage to get in the office early to ride the shuttle service. Our group arrived in the airport at 6:30AM, had our breakfast and checked in.

Here was our flight details:

Manila to Boracay (Caticlan) Departure: 0825 / Arrival: 0935

Traveling with a huge group was a lot of fun. We didn’t even care if we were the noisiest in the airport while waiting for our flight, which was DELAYED due to bad weather in Caticlan. We packed non-stop talks and laughter so we didn’t get bored.

Standing: Camille, Ross, JP and Jo

Sitting: Jun, April, Patty, Glo and Karen

JP, Ross and RJ

After a long wait, they finally announced to board our plane. It was already around 9AM. The plane was small with huge propellers on the sides. It was my first time to ride a small plane, fortunately I didn’t panicked.

On flight, the pilot later announced that we cannot fly directly to Caticlan due to bad weather so our flight was diverted to Kalibo.

Funny moment:

RJ to Heather(Flight Attendant): Masama ba panahon sa Caticlan?

Heather: Yes, kaya we might experience some turbulence.

RJ: Ok. Pwede bababa nalang ako ng Iloilo?

After a while, I already got cold sweats and started to get nauseous during the flight and felt like I’m going to pass out! The flight attendant handed me a little bottle of White Flower to serve as inhaler.

We landed in Kalibo at around 10AM and had to ride a bus going to Caticlan. I eventually felt better after drinking a very cold water and fell asleep in the bus.

It was about an hour and a half bus ride from Kalibo to Caticlan and it was raining! Then we transferred to a boat which only took us 5 minutes from Caticlan port to the island of Boracay. We arrived in the hotel at almost 2PM (expected is 10AM). We were all exhausted and hungry from that very long travel! Fortunately the food was ready!