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Travel Destinations – Boracay
Heading Out
The nightlife is great craic altogether with bars and clubs lining almost the entire coastal front of white bay, most spilling out directly onto the beach. Nearly all of these bars have live music performed by locals consisting of an eclectic range of songs, both western and some of a more local flavour, but all equally entertaining.
Drink prices aren't as cheap as you would expect with a rum and coke for the ladies or beer for the lads costing you an average of three or four euros. There is a budget option of course. The locals buy local rum called Tanduay which costs 75 cent for a litre bottle; this will save you a small fortune over the course of your holiday.
Climate
Most travellers tend to visit from February to March and as a result the Island will be teeming with life, but maybe the sort of life you are trying to escape. The group I travelled with went in July, this is monsoon season but if you are lucky the weather should be nothing too inhospitable. We were lucky and had temperatures ranging in the mid twenties the entire trip and came home with healthy tans.
The rains only came at night and to be honest were nothing short of exhilarating, rain drops the size or your fist and lightning lighting up the mountains of even the farthest away islands. We were also pretty much the only westerners on the entire island, we came across one Scot and two Canadians but any other tourists were Asian, mainly Korean.
Flights
Flying to Manila in July will set you back 950 euro with Etihad airways and a further 180 euro to fly to Caticlan. Outside the airport in Manila you can find small travel agent huts which are also places to change money, American dollars still being the preferred currency of the locals when exchanging for local monies. But if you are willing to track one down and haggle a price for plane tickets to Caticlan you may get cheaper, we were able to secure flights for 80 euro with Cathay Pacific through one such hut.
Tickets for April will set you back 870 euro with Qatar airways and if you can fly as soon as March you'll be looking at paying 1000 euro to fly with multiple airlines. For further details on flights see kayak.com
If you do plan on going watch out for the mosquitos, we had bracelets, two per limb, creams and sprays and a few of us still got eaten alive! An even worse affliction than the mosquito is the dreaded sand plight, small black burying bastards that lurk in the sand, bite and dig their way up your feet and onto your ankles, travellers beware!
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