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i went to puerto galera last weekend with my friends and i took pictures along the way so it can guide me when im making this blog

We started our way to mindoro around 3 AM saturday morning, went to Buendia with hopes of catching the very first trip. Unfortunately, about three hundred people have the same gameplan but took it a step further and arrive an hour earlier - the result, we were on the fifth or sixth bus to leave Manila and it was already 5:30 in the morning. I saw this sign while waiting for the bus and i thought it was pretty creative:



Since we never slept the night before, i was practically sleeping the whole trip. We arrived at the pier around 8:30 and judging from the number of people already there - i know we were already late. We were lucky to get the 10:30 tickets so we decided to grab something quick to eat and sat there waiting:



the boat ride gave me the chance to catch some 40 winks - it took us about an hour. I was still able to catch some shots while in the boat:





We left Makati at 3 AM and reached puerto at almost 12 noon - that is about 9 hours of travel (+_+) but half of it was spent waiting. We decided to eat first before we look for a place to stay - i even tried their local version of ice-scramble for dessert which was a blessing in the sky since manong helped us find a good house to stay in




I do not have a picture of the place but it was not really a "pleasant" place to begin with (DISCLAIMER: "not pleasant" means a place for "cowboys") - it was really a residential house of a local and she just used her rooms because there are so many people in puerto that weekend. (this picture was taken just outside of the house)



We decided to take a dip instead of sleeping - masasayang kasi ung unang araw namin. I took some pictures of the sunset, it was a beautiful sight:



we drink a couple of booze the first night but since we were all tired of the countless hours waiting, travelling, and waiting - we decided to sleep early. We woke up late - very late the next day. We started the day eating our lunch: (di ko malilimutan yung masungit na manang na may ari nung tindahan, tutuhugin ko sya ng stick ko)



then we took a dip and some pix:



we found a good souvenir shop of hand painted goodies - they were a bunch of good people:



we underestimated the time so we were able to eat our dinner very late the 2nd night. The rest of the night was spent drinking and just plain talking till wee hours in the morning:





to cap this post - here is a group pic jst before the sunset and of course manang's shotgun :)