boracay

During my last few days of senior year in high school back in 2009, I spent a lot of time listening to my friends plan for the Bora trip that the seniors of most schools go on after graduation. Flights, accommodations, beach activities, possible drunken escapades, pre-Bora shopping and other preparations, there was really a lot of Bora talk from pre-grad to post grad to the trip itself. I couldn't blame them; even I felt excited. My whole barkada and even others out of it could not contain their excitement as the trip got closer and closer. Sadly, I wasn't going. I wasn't allowed by my parents at that time, and I couldn't afford to pay for the trip myself. While my whole barkada spent about a week in the beautiful island celebrating the grad, I was in Manila (my boyfriend didn't go either, but he was in the States at that time).

Today, I'm 21, a college graduate and working (eek, i feel old). My Atenean friends graduate from college and decide to go on a Bora trip once again to celebrate being out of school. And since I'm a Bora-with-friends virgin (I went with my family twice when I was younger), I decided to spend my first set of earnings on a trip I've been itching to go on with my friends. Ateneo de Bora with the graduates!

We spent 5 days on the island doing what vacationers do when in Bora: drinking, eating, fly fishing, happy hour-ing, skim boarding, partying, cam-whoring and enjoying. On one of the days though we decided to check out Ariel's point, which is a 30-45 minute boat ride away. For P1600, you get unlimited booze, food (yummy, grilled, babuyan food), cliff diving and a beautiful and peaceful hang out place for you and your friends (peaceful if you don't end up with rowdy groups of people on your trip). This, I would say, is probably one of the highlights of my trip because I still can't get over how I was able to step off the board of that crazy 15 meter high cliff jump. It was much higher than I expected it to be! As for my best Bora meal, I would have to give it to Hawaiian Barbecue. We were not able to eat in a lot of places, but this sure was the best one we ate in during the vacation.

Here are some shots from the trip.

A part of Ariel's Point

Above are just some photos taken by my friend Alec using his GoPro. To get a glimpse of how the trip went, you can check out the video he made here. So glad that we have Alec around to document trips like these. Great way to look back on vacations!

Of course, fun trips always end feeling like it was way too short and went by way too fast. When is ending a vacation ever looked forward to? Now I am back to work. Seeing all the Bora photos on my feed now from people spending labor day weekend there makes me extremely envious (that's why I decided to look back at photos from my trip and post something here. Haha!). I don't know if I would mind the amount of people there (Bora looks like it's crazy packed), but right now I just really want to go back!