Travelog

I NEVER THOUGHT THAT I WOULD EVER GO TO BOHOL

... at least not until i'm earning my own money already. So I went nUts! when my parents allowed me to go with berna and jacel
... wahahahahaha!

BOHOL

This may sound stupid...

I knew we'd go by plane, but i really didnt know that Bohol was in the Visayas region hehehe...


lookie! cute, ain't it?
... and the tarsiers look nice too.


anyway, the first day was the day tour... we went through most of what could be seen in Bohol... *shrug* small place...


the "hills" were great... looked like God threw down a hundred choc kisses hehehe.

they had a viewing deck where you can see the whole lot of them... you have to climb a frekin' 214 steps to get up there. but the view was fantastic and worth all the effort.






We spent the next few heavenly days...


... on a boat, island hopping... dolphin and whale watching


... lounging on an isolated beach


... exploring the resort

alas. we had to leave the quiet islands and beaches of Bohol and move on to Cebu. We went via the oceanjet ferry...

CEBU




We toured around the city... saw the church and the famed Magellan's Cross.

now i'm not sure if it was the exhaustion of travel or whatevs but i didnt enjoy Cebu as much as I did Bohol.

Maybe its coz of the fact that I grew up in the city and the prospect of being in a city again didnt hold much appeal to me.

Cebu was a lot like Manila, similar enough to make me feel like i was driving around manila... only a manila where I couldnt go back to my house to sleep.

i'm biased, of course.


The only part of Cebu that I really enjoyed was Kawasan Falls.

I've NEVER ever seen a river with water that clear.

(hehe pasig at marikina river pa lang kasi nakita ko)...



after snorkeling at Moalboal beach, we went to Kawasan...


... where we spent the rest of the day swimming in the cold waters at the foot of the falls.

Berns and Jacel went nuts swinging on a rope and jumping into the water. hehe

We were in good company, we met up with some Singaporean churchmates of jace's and made new friends.



Our last day in Cebu was spent in the island of Malapascua...

the beach was nice, but it was just way too HOT that day.


Those two ended up napping... while i took a short dip in the ocean.

We had to leave Malapascua early coz we had to catch our 9 pm flight home, it felt weird, surreal... coz our parents were calling our cels to know what time to pick us up at the airport and we were still on an island off-somewhere in Cebu.

All in all, we had a FANTASTIC time... i wish we could go back there again...

i swear i'll buy a "summer getaway" house near a beach and retire in bohol one day...

(berns promised to work at the health center at balicasag island hahahaha)

---kzs---