After spending 4 nights on the beach of Boracay, we made our way to Bohol Island. Bohol has some beautiful beaches as well, but we limited our stay to two nights, meaning only one day to explore what the island has to offer. So no Bohol beach for us but it was still pretty great.
So our trip to Bohol included a 7 AM pick up service, 5 minute ride to the ferry, 20 min ferry ride, 2 hour bus ride to the airport, 2 hour wait at the airport, 35 minute flight, 15 min taxi to Cebu port, 2 hr ferry ride to Bohol, and a 5 minute trike ride to our hotel. Whew! Long day, huh? The crazy part was that our 35 minute flight departed 33 minutes ahead of schedule. So we ended up landing 2 minutes after our initially scheduled arrival time.
Chocolate Hills
Our full day in Bohol was spent on a private tour seeing some great sites. Starting off are the Chocolate Hills, which Bohol is very well known for. They're named as such because during drier months, the grass dries and turns brown making the hills look like they are made of chocolate. Unfortunately for us, the grass was not completely dried out and the hills were covered in a layer of greenish brownish grass. Fortunately for us, it was still pretty cool.
Facing the sun, Darin had to cover his eyes
Mahogany Forest
After the Chocolate Hills, we drove to a tiny forest where some students planted mahogany trees back in 1958. I don't think the trees are full grown, but as you can see from the pictures, there still quite large. So with just a little over 50 years, you can have yoruself a nice little forest.
Tarsier Monkeys
The other thing that Bohol is known for: Tarsier monkeys. These monkeys are the smallest primates in the world being only thumb size when born and growing to a whopping 6 inches in length as an adult. They are nocturnal animals, so they have rather large eyes. And like an owl, their eye sockets are fixed, so they turn their heads 90 degrees each way to look around. Above all, they're pretty damn cute.
Nocturnal animals, Tarsiers look like they sleep under leaves to hide from rain & sun
Anthony as a Tarsier
Check out that tail; longer than his body
Ziplining & River Cruise
As an option to our day tour, we were able to add ziplining to our itinerary for 350 pesos per person (~8 USD). We opted for the combo, where we zipline in one direction then take a cable car back.
Later on, we went on a little river cruise where we got to eat a cruise down a river. The cool thing was that the end of the cruise was the same spot we ziplined over.
Strapped up and raring to go
View from our zipline adventure
On a cable car over the river
Our river cruise boat
Little rapids at the end of our cruise; notice the similarities from the view from our zipline
Some village folks performing during our cruise
Hanging Bridge & Butterfly Garden
We got to do a couple of other little things during our day trip including walking across a bamboo bridge and visiting a little butterfly garden.
Darin coming and Anthony going on the hanging bridge
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