My Bohol Trip part 2

Loboc River

Here’s the continuation of my Bohol Trip. I just found extra time today and thought of making the part 2 of my Bohol Trip. From Tagbilaran airport, it took about half an hour to Panglao Island. We stayed at Lost Horizon Beach Resort and its past 6pm when we arrived and we took an hour rest before heading out to the beach for dinner.The rooms are okay and we paid P2,600 ($56)  a night per room that’s good for two but can accommodate 4 people.

Lost Horizon is in Alona Beach and Alona Beach is very much alive at night. I’ve never seen so much foreigners in one place and the ratio between a foreigner and a Filipino tourist is about 9 to 1. There are bands, people walking at the beach and eating dinner along the coast line of Alona beach.

We ate dinner at the beach side and there are lights everywhere. It’s a stretch of almost a kilometer and almost a hundred restaurant to choose from. Fresh sea foods and barbecues are the most common choices and food is great but the service is just okay maybe because we are not foreigners.

The pictures below says it all. Most of the night pics are in manual mode between 4 seconds to 8 seconds to capture the beauty of the place.

On our 2nd day we headed for Hinagdanan cave, a famous underground cave in Bohol then we passed by Blood Compact Site where the “Sandugo” took place in 1565; a blood compact between Miguel Lopez de Legazpi of Spain and Rajah Sikatuna of Bohol. The blood compact is considered as the First Treaty of Friendship between two different races, religions, culture and civilization. Baclayon Church was the next stop over. It’s one of the oldest stone church in the Philippines. Check the pictures below.

We dropped by at one place where we can see Tarsiers up close and personal. They are cute little creatures and really soft to touch. We had our lunch at Loboc River in a floating restaurant. As the boat takes of, the buffet begins. While having our lunch we enjoyed the lush green landscape slowly sliding along your table. There were children swimming, jumping from the trees, people passing by in small bankas or canoes. Then there are also children signing and dancing in a small hut at the side of the river where tourist can join in or take their pictures. Loay church is just on the opposite side. See the pictures below.

It’s been a long day but I need to get to the mall because the night before I deleted all the pictures from the compact flash card knowing I transferred all the pictures to my laptop but later found out only half of the pictures was transferred. I had to get a compact flash card reader from CDR-King in Island City Mall. To make long story short I recovered all the deleted pictures using R-Linux. We ate dinner again along Alona beach and we hit the pool at Lost Horizon which I will continue on the next part next week.

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