Puerto Galera Escapade

Another story and throwback travel to the beautiful places that I’ve been visited before, I really missed having a vacation and relaxed to the nature but since we are in pandemic, travelling was hard than before and you need many documents such as health certificate, travel pass as well as you need to take a PCR Swabtest and the result needs to be negative so you can visit the place you want to go. For now, I’ll just tell my story behind this pictures that I will share.

This trip was so awesome, I can't forget my experience in Puerto Galera, it was totally fun and exciting. It was good day when we visit Puerto Galera, by the way Puerto Galera is located in my country "Philippines", in Visayas and particularly in Mindoro. I’ve been to this place twice and it was really a memorable one. It was around in 2014 and 2018. When we went to Puerto Galera, we came here from Metro Manila, in order to go to Puerto Galera, we need to ride a Bus to the Port, then when you’re in the port you need to ride a “RORO” (it is a small ship) to get on the Island and once finally on the Island you need to ride a vehicle either a jeepney or motorcycle. When we went to Mindoro, we rode a bus in a terminal in Gil Puyat Pasay. The ride usually takes about 4 hours before we reach our destination which is Batangas Port, and the ride was so long so we slept for a long time, but it was not a complete 4 hours because the Bus had a lot of stopovers so from the moment we arrived at the port, we immediately began to choose what type of Roro that we want to ride on. Of course, we would choose a cheaper one, but apparently the Roro that had a cheaper rate was already occupied so we don’t have a choice to choose another one which we rode later on.

Moving along I didn't specify how many are we in the outing, more or less we are over 40 people, so we covered almost half of the Roro plus our things, and it cannot accommodate us all so we choose a bigger one that can handle us all and no other passengers.

When we are in the port there are so many passengers, tourist, going home from Mindoro because as far as we know there were a lot of nature attraction that you can visit once you go in Mindoro. We already have our Roro ready, but we need to wait for it, the waiting time takes 1-2 hours before it came to the port. Then the boat came, and we ride on it, I am not used riding a Roro or a ship so when I went inside the Roro it causes me to seasick and to be honest, I vomit after a few minutes, funny right? at the same time ewww! I had to smell a "Katinko" a medicine I always used when I am having a headache or not feeling well, I used it for sickness motion and after that the Roro finally moved. It takes 3 hours before we can reach our destination, so I just slept to recover my motion sickness in Roro.

At last, the long ride and wait was over, we finally made in Puerto Galera ❤❤, when you see the nature and surrounding you can say, Wow! It was very beautiful, I was overhelmed and I was so amazed how beautiful that island is. Once you set foot on the place you can't wait what to do there, you can do many activities, play volleyball and of course number one thing to do is swimming in the sea, explore the place and other things in Puerto Galera. Finally, were on this Island, we do a lot of activities, Island Hopping to one another, playing chess also was a good time in beach, banana boat, watching the sun set. Catching sea urchin was one of the memorable things I did and also you need to eat it raw which was first time for me, and I was amazed how delicious it was. The food in there was also fantastic, I cannot say any bad thing about this place.

So far it was one of my best travel here in the Philippines. If ever travelling was not that strict anymore or if ever you plan to visit this place, I recommended Puerto Galera, because the joy, the memories that you can experience in this beautiful place, it can never be replace. This is truly a wonderful experience, I really wished I can go back easily just like we did before but definitely it will be harder now. Anyways hope you like my story and experience in Puerto Galera, thank you for your time reading!