There's something wonderful about warm nights. I grew up with them in SoCal and it's definitely one of the greatest things I miss living in the Bay Area; night life just isn't the same.

As the sun dimmed away, the lights glowed brighter and lit up the main strip along the beach. They did a great job providing enough light beneath the palms to give tourists confidence in safety when exploring around in the dark but not so much that it's lit up like Vegas.

Sometimes we fall back on our daily habits as if we're at home in the States.

But then we remember our time here is precious, so enjoy what you can while you can!

Okay, that's enough sunset watching, time to walk around!

The Philippines is a strange place from a linguistics POV, where it seems like 90%+ of everything is written in english, but every now and then some tagalog pops up.

Today was the best sunset of the trip so far, or at least the most colorful. With such great weather, it brought out every tourist who would otherwise be spending the afternoon within their hotel rooms. Speaking of tourists, it was surprising how popular Boracay was with the Koreans. I wouldn't be surprised if 75%+ of the tourists here were Korean, so much so that despite the area being originally famous among American tourists (and that the Philippines usually write everything in English), menus and signs have begun to display bilingual messages especially catering for the new demographic shift.

The locals have mentioned their frustration with adapting to the new language barrier, though they did admit that the Koreans exercised great restraint from littering the beaches, a tough problem locals had several years before. Basically, despite the increase of tourists, the beaches managed to stay cleaner than ever before.

Some of us deal with the sun without even trying...

...while others still end up getting burned no matter how much sunscreen is used.

The beach becoming more crowded than ever, although from what we've heard, this is nothing compared to peak season where one would have a hard time even standing next to the water for a sunset picture.

These screens were in front of a lot of outdoor seating, we think to protect against wind, although we rarely experienced any on our side.

Some of the foreigners were playing soccer against the locals, both sides being pretty evenly matched.

Every afternoon we also saw some volleyball matches with the local kids. They must have been doing this ever since they were little because they were pretty dang good.

Best seat on the beach. Seriously, we didn't realize until later walking the entire beach, these seats (which we effortlessly got every day) were one of the very few that wasn't blocked by anything and could also get drinks and food. Speaking of which...