With an image of a paradise island in our heads, we sailed towards Puerto Galera. Welcoming our arrival are the big letters of COCOBEACH! Wooohooo!
Finally! After a 4 hr drive, missing the harbor entrance, and that hot boat ride we arrived!
Coconut juice in its original pack (coconut of course!) and the shell necklace enlighted the heavy-sweaty-humid atmosphere. Everybody took their keys, finished the coconut juice and headed up to the hill..yes...to our cottages up the hill!
The cottages were cute and nicely decorated. Very FILIPINO! With gumamela on our pillows, we took a very short rest, unpacked and went back down to the see the beach.
Aaaah! The ever famous HAPPY HOUR! Buy 1 get a double of your drink for free between 2 to 4pm only...and of course where else can you fully enjoy such a delicious cocktail - get drunk - and share jokes??? Only up at the SILENT POOL! Those 3 days were probably the noisiest days up the silent pool.
Dinner time, at the restaurant by the pool. With a local group serenading us while eating, it helped us digest the delicious steak.
Frog Race...have you heard of it before? Well, everything is possible in this island. They organized a frog race and bet on the frog which will get out of the labyrinth of empty bottles the quickest.
For our wedding celebration party, we treated everyone for a dinner at the beach. And with the gift from Danny and Veerle, everybody tried to be a circus acrobat! Juggling the ball or playing with the magic stick!
On the second day, we did a hike up the mountain at the mainland. And once up there, we met up with the locals (original tribe). We visited their school and talked to the school principal. We had a buy on the souvenirs and gave the kids some candies.
The third day, I went dolphin-seeing at 6 in the morning...and it was successfull. Later on we went to another island to go snorkling...since our planned jet skiing didnt get any luck...we just enjoyed ourselves looking at the fishes and corals.
Time to go home...but the fun is not over yet! When had to get off the big boat, we have to transfer into this smaller slimmer boat that is on once side wood balance and on the other human! Hilarious!
We got safely home with smiles in our faces :-)
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