In the whole month of February , I was busy in my study work and could not visit the places again. In the meantime I was covering the subject in the class of simtech, marketing management , Op management-II, and was busy with the class preparation. The month of march carried a sense of new adventure to boracay and baguio to which I was planning in the first week of march. In the first week of march there was beautiful three days of celebration of the International week Conducted and coordinated by the MDM students and it helped in the displaying
Various countries art crafts and tourist places.The students of the countries like India, Vietnam, Laos, malaysia, Indonesia , China , Philippines, Singapore etc put up their stall and displayed various art facts. On 4th March,2004 the International week festival was called closed with a closing ceremony accompanied by some cultural programme.
The mid semester break in the march,2004 which was from 16 to 23 was quite memorable.I had planned ahead and booked my air plane ticket to a visit to boracay the famous beach in philppines. I wished to go to boracay via the air travel to kalibo airport from Manila and then from kalibo airport to port caticlan via the taxi or matador and in the last from the caticlan port to Boracay Island via the steamer or motor boat . This was an easy way to go there and as I had planned I went to Manila airport on 17 th march and it took hardly half an hour to reach kalibo airport in the aklan island by airtarvel . This was first time in my life I traveled in air, on land and on sea as apart of same travel destination. I really enjoyed the matadore taxi journey to the caticlan port from the kalibo airport which lasted for about 90 minutes thru various small towns and villages in the aklan island. I was accompanied by three maganda ladies in the back . I reached caticlan port at 1 :30 pm and quickly boarded on the motor boat and there I was accompanied and guided by one guide named Mr Ronny Sapico who turned out to be my helper in finding the right accommodation in boracay Island once I reached there .I took accommodation in the Rock hotel which had almost similar type of small cottages.I opted for two days of booking to stay in the cottage .On 17 th march, 2005, at about 4pm I went into the cottage room and took some shower and refreshed myself. After that I went outside to see the beach and my god ! I found quite different from the Puerta Galera beach .The puerta galera beach which I had visited in the month of September was a simple beach as it did not
All the modern beach facilities like speed boat , water skiing ,island hopping, large scale facilities of the deep sea diving, snorkeling etc. The boracay beach in one sentence is the best beach I have visited in my life till now.Back home I have visited some beaches in India in Puri( which is more famous for religious reasons) and in goa but they did not have the luxuries and facilities like those of the Boracay which has simply impressive array of modern beach sports and recreation facilities like water skiing, deep sea diving, snorkeling, deep ocean study, speed boat racing, surfing on the water, island hopping etcetc. The boracay has more number of hotels, restaurants, shops, stalls and telecommunication facilities on the beach than any other beaches I have seen before.
I should have stayed more than two days to fully enjoy the pleasure of boracay,but I did not have money. I was unfortunate that I could have any one of my batch mates from AIM especially the Indian ones for my visit to boracay and later baguio.
