We spent another wonderful day at the Puka-Shell beach today. It was sunny as usual, the sand was warm and nice as usual, and the water was clear and cooling in the hot sun. It is strange how you really cannot get enough of this… Laying on a beach doing nothing but relaxing, reading, talking, swimming.

In difference from our first time we went to the Puka-Shell beach this time we took a tricycle. Fun and cheap. At around 2pm we took a tricycle back to the hotel. My stomach was not complete back to normal yet so I wanted to take it easy with the sun and relax at the hotel before going out for dinner.

Tonight we went back to the Mexican restaurant Manana. We really wanted to have the Manana salad again. It was such a great salad. When we were having our dinner a dirty woman with a kid in her arms came up to us and begged for money. We did not know how to react. We did not know how this was treated in Philippines and did not want to do anything wrong. We were saved by one of the waitresses that gave her some money and we paid the waitress back when we got the bill.

But it got me thinking. I have no idea really of how to solve the situation for all the poor people over the world. I really don’t just want to give them money without knowing that they will really use it for food and shelter and not for alcohol or drugs. Anyway, I thought that one way could be to start a foundation in a place like Boracay and families without money and shelter could get that from the foundation with the condition that their children would go to school (also financed by the foundation).

The idea would be to not just give something without requiring some kind of payback. That’s the condition. The payback in this case would be for the kids to go to school, which is actually not a payback to the foundation itself but to the society and to them selfs. But of course for this to work at all there needs to be a foundation and a plan on where to start and how to expand in order to help as much as possible. But I truly believe that just giving money will not help at all.

I felt much better today although my stomach was still upset. We stayed at the poolside for an hour or so before we went to get a massage at the Mandala Spa. The massage was nice and the room where we had our massage was beautiful. We found out that it was not only a spa but also a resort. The rooms were $240 per night including breakfast and yoga classes in the morning. A find!

The afternoon we spent at the poolside before we got ready to watch the sunset and to have dinner. We went to Aria again, because they have great food and service there.

When I woke up today I felt sick. Same as Chie felt yesterday I guess. My stomach was upset. Still we went to the beach after breakfast. I stayed in the shadow for an hour or so before I had to go back for a bathroom. After that we stayed at the poolside for the rest of the day.

Felt a little bit better so we went out for dinner. On our way to dinner we stopped at a foot reflexology at the D’Mall first. Halfway through the reflexology I felt nauseas and asked for the bathroom. When I stood up I felt cold sweaty and my vision narrowed to a tunnel and my legs felt like jelly fish. Still I did my best to get to the bathroom. But I was too slow and fainted halfway.

Everyone seemed to stop what they were doing to help me. I guess I lost too much water due to my upset stomach. Anyway, after relaxing for a few minutes we payed and went by tricycle back to the hotel for dinner. I had difficulties eating and went early to bed.

This morning after breakfast we got a ride by the hotel’s minivan to the Puka-Shell beach. It was a stretch of sand on the north side of the beach with almost no people and very clear water.

We lay down in the sand close to some coco nut palm trees to get some kind of shade. But only after about an hour there was no shade at all. Fortunately we could enjoy the clear water to cool off. In difference from White Sand beach (which had calm water) the Puka-shell beach had some small waves. Although not as big as in Hawaii it still made it more fun to be in the water.

We spent the whole day here reading, swimming and relaxing. At around 3:30 pm we packed our things and walked to a small restaurant at the place where we entered the beach. Chie had a beer and I have a mango juice while we waited for the hotel’s minivan to pick us up and drive us back.

For dinner we went to Gasthof to have BBQ. It was quite tasty but Chie felt sick afterwards. Too oily maybe. So we went home and went to bed early.

Another day at the White Sand beach. With sunshine, water, and a great atmosphere. In the evening we made a reservation for a trip to Puka-shell beach tomorrow.

We went to Sa’neh Thai restaurant in D’Mall for dinner. Quite good Thai food. After the dinner we had drinks at the Mango Ray, frozen Margarita and mango shake.