I’ll be honest with you: I didn’t expect to fall in love with Puerto Galera the way I did. I booked a long weekend, naively thinking I’d tick off the usual beach-trip boxes — sand, sun, cold beer — and move on. Three days turned into a week. The week nearly turned into a month. If you’ve ever been to Puerto Galera, you already know exactly what I mean. Nestled on the northern tip of Oriental Mindoro island, Puerto Galera is one of those rare places in the Philippines where everything seems to work out perfectly in the same frame: dramatic jungle-clad mountains tumbling into a sheltered bay, beaches that range from boisterous and social…