I'm not really quite sure why I chose Malapascua Island over Bantayan Island. But nonetheless, I was thrilled that I get to spend 2 days and 1 night in this island. It's the peaceful, uncrowded and serene beauty of the island that's perfect to cap off our Cebu trip.

To know how we got there from Cebu City, take a look at this guide: How to get to Malapascua?

Malapascua has this relaxed aura that's perfect to just beach bum, lay around and just enjoy the picturesque atmosphere. 

After the long trip, we didn't have any other activity other than sleeping, catching sunset and eat. 

We had our lunch here at Ging Ging's Flower Garden.

Bought some food supplies here.

And catch some sleep here. Our humble Casablanca home in Malapascua.

We woke up just in time for sunset. We went to look for a habal habal ride to get us to the lighthouse.

We were already a bit late for the ball of fire. 

So the visit at the lighthouse was so quick. We were already in a hurry before it gets dark.

We asked the drivers to take us to the local community so we can find cheap eats for dinner.

And cheap eats we found. Bravo!

We brought it to our place and we set up al fresco dinner by the beach.

Cheap eats + good company + interesting conversation + beach = PERFECT DAY!

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Thanks to Airphil Express' Piso Sale last new year, we were able to book roundtrip tickets to Cebu. Yes, I was booking airline seats while everyone was outside watching the fireworks.

God blessed us with a summer weather in the middle of October. Look at the clouds. Amazing!

And an hour later, say hello to Mactan white beaches. We arrived around 9:30AM. I booked a city tour from one of my tour operators in Cebu. The driver was already waiting for us when we landed. We did the city tour first, as hotel standard check in time is 2PM.

Our City Tour in pictures.

Mactan Shrine

Taoist Temple

Museo de Sugbu

Lunch at Zubuchon Escario

Fort San Pedro

Basilica del Sto Niño

Magellan's Cross

Taboan Market

Our city tour in Cebu ended around 4PM. We checked in, rest a bit then took a taxi to Crowne Regency for our Sky Adventure. After our sky high thrill, we took another taxi to Larsian to have dinner. Dinner for all 5 of us totaled only around Php 400! Sulit!

Sky Adventure

Larsian

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I had the opportunity to go to Boracay in 2007 courtesy of a post break up drama of a friend.  We were plan B. And it was a good plan. Lols. Accommodation was paid already. All we need to do was to pack up our things, file our vl's and we're ready to go.

Grabbing some breakfast

There was a measles outbreak in our office that time, and it was a really good time to be away. We had a summer end trip since it was June.

Nope, we didn't fly to Boracay. We brought a car to Mindoro via Roro. Spent the night in Mindoro, left the car and rode another Roro going to Caticlan. It was fun.

Ro-Ro (Roll-on/Roll-off) ship. These are ferries designed to carry wheeled cargo such as automobiles, buses etc. 

After the road trip and the Roro rides. We arrived in Boracay. 

We donated Php 50 so we can have picture taken with this sand art

First timers that we are, we immediately hurried to start our activities for that day. We tried the banana boat ride, island hopping, buko eating, fun swimming and immediately fell in love with the place.

And I fell in love with Puka Beach.

After falling in love with Boracay, I came back almost every year. It is indeed a happy place!

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You see, I have a very strict parents. I didn't even experienced sleepovers until I'm working! I have 7PM curfews and can't even use the phone past 6PM when I was in high school. So when I was already working, you wouldn't imagine my excitement to go out and explore places, to be independent, to hang out with friends, and to travel!

When I got my chance, I volunteered myself to tag along with my friend and her friends whom I haven't met yet in their summer vacation in Puerto Galera. Luckily, there were all friendly even if I'm party crashing.

This was April 2007.

Beautiful sunset in Galera

From left is Jo, my friend Virns, and yours truly with the boys!

The group :)

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