Bohol Island - UNESCO Global Geopark

Bohol - I woked up at 6am to catch the 7am SuperCat JetFoil craft to Bohol island.  Normally ferry would take 5hrs from Cebu ferry to Bohol but with SuperCat it takes only 2hrs.   SuperCat is managed by 2Go Travel and the fast ferry schedules.  Bohol island is an UNESCO Global Geopark and the only one in the Philippines. 

Our JetFoil craft to Bohol

Arrived at Bohol

Upon arrival, we were met by a number of touts promoting their transport services.  All around the same price but I chose one guy - decent enough for a price of 2,500 pesos to drive us around from 7.30am till 5pm which is inexpensive.   He will bring us to all the tourist places of interest.  The 1st place to see the Tarsier - the smallest primates on Earth.  I never expected them to be so small.

That is as close I could get to the Tasiers.  During most of the daylight hours, the tasier is drowsy, but during its nocturnal activity hunting insects, lizards, bats and snakes, its eyes widen to a diameter of 16 millimetres and it becomes a keen and agile hunter.

Next, to the Chocolate Hills.

The Chocolate Hills is a geological formation and tjere are at least 1,260 hills covering an area of 50 sq km.  They are covered in green  grass that turns brown (like chocolate) during the dry season, hence the name.

This is a famous tourist spot whereby camera man will take photos of you 'flying' on a broom like in Harry Potter.

The Chocolate hills to Geologist is due to the combination of chalk stratum sitting atop dense clay interacting wth the rain water to form an astonishing 1,776 peaks, ranging in height from 50 to 120 metres.  At the end of the dry season, the green hills turn brown, hence the name 'Chocolate Hills'.

A much better view of The Chocolate Hills

3rd, Hanging Bridge.  It started to rain cats and dogs and we decided not to alight the van.  The hanging bridge looked precarious in the heavy downpour so we skipped this attractions.

4th, Loboc River cruise with lunch provided. 

Photo of other Loboc river boats

Loboc is the music capital of Bohol and also famous for its floating restaurants along the scenic Loboc river.   It was quite amazing to have a floating restaurant pushed by a small sampan down the river.   They had a buffet spread of chicken, noodles, rice, soup and fruits but the food was not very appetising but had ours to fill our stomach.  

About half an hour into our lunch, the river boat docked at a platform for a village performance.

Invited participants to dance

Ukelele village performance

5th, Python sanctuary.  

It was already 3pm and I decided to go back to the Jetty to take the earlier jet foil back to Cebu City.   2Go Supercat is not available until 6pm so we took another Jetfoil company Weesam Express back to Bohol - 4:20pm ferry and will reach Cebu @ 6:20pm.

It was an exhausting day....