12 hours around Bohol

last saturday, i was absent from my 2 other classes for the first time. which rarely happened.. if it was just any regular saturday school day, i wouldn't be out of class. i was absent because, i went on tour around bohol as a special requirement for our advance earth science class. the whole went like this: i woke up at around 3am and ride a cab to pier 3 after an hour. the ship departed at 6 am. i was so excited even though it was such an ordeal for me being on board on that ship. it swayed from time to time as it was hit by big the waves and caused me nausea. after 2 hours the sand of the island is sparkling with whiteness, and the harbor can already be seen meters away. yehey!! bohol i'm coming! i went off board and ran to the end of the gate where our van is waiting for us.



let's start the journey. my clasmates and i spent 12 hours tracking just to see some of the most spectacular sceneries there. first off, we went to sagbayan peak where it's some kind of a park built on top of the a hill, it has statues of some disney characters like snowhite, donald duck and duffy duck and even a-once hollywood queen manilyn monroe.
overlooking below is a 5 sq meter terrarium where tarsiers are housed. i took some pictures of the very shy primates. they are at bout the size of my knuckles and some slightly bigger than that. one! two! three! there you go! i got a picture of the cutest primate on earth a pride of not only Boholanos but also the Filipino people.




after feeding my hungry tummy, our group went up north, to carmen where the famous chocolate hills is proudly mounting to the world, the wind was so restless playing with my hair and the soothing smell brought inner peace at that time. wow!

breathtaking scene, atlast we arrived at the famous chocolate hills by 11 am. as i climbed up the stairs i felt im walking through the stairs of heaven. reaching the peak is a rewading feeling. there were a lot of tourists; local and international. i took some pictures, zooming and zooming out my little camera phone like a pro.

since the time was so limited, we immediately travel down west and entered a very shady cold place called the manmade forest. it's like a small rainforest of the Philippines. the penetration of the sun's light is almost zero. the people of bohol are really particular with their environment. i can say that they are because unlike any other provinces each of the islanders are very disciplined and very watchful in the preservation of their manmade forest.

the ininerary of our tour does not only stop there, after stopping at a local restaurant for lunch we went straight ahead the cool and calm waters of loboc river.

what were spectacular and interesting there, were the floating restaurants. it's like a small house having party all the time while it cruised the 2 km river back and forth.

after the loboc river, we visited the oldest church there in alburquerque, then drop by at the blood compact shrine of Legaspi and Rajah Soliman.
i did a cholochial pose at Legaspi 's back while i hold his legs.


it was already mid-afternoon and we need to cath up a ship. we only have 5 hour more left and the next stop is about an hour away, the hinagdanan cave. but because traffic is not prevalent in the province we got there on time. it was a small cave found underground . it was called hinagdanan because there were stairs built on its way down, that's where it got it's name. the place was very cold; slightly dark; bat caves were also there; it has a natural swimming pool so inviting. but unfortunately, i don't have any extra clothes with me so was not able to have the oppotunity of splashing into the cold waters of the cave. bohol can only be travelled in one day.

the 12-hour travel is a very amazing experience. i'm looking forward to savor another of this travelling in another location, negros perhaps, is a wonderful place to explore!!!