My Bohol Trip

   March 21, 2010, 5:00am, we rode a taxi going to Pier 1 for Oceanjet Ferry going to Tagbilaran. THe ferry will be leaving 6:00am, we were on board 30 minutes earlier and all troley had to be checked in. We met my friends on board. After roughly 2 hours, we were at Tagbilaran Pier. We spotted someone holding a sign that says “Joys and Company”, and my friend said that she think it was our service. We’ve never been to Bohol so we were all pretty excited.The tour will start after lunch so we first went to Island Citimall to had our breakfast and shop for souvenirs and delicacies. It was lunch time when we checked in at Sea Coral Resort and prepare for our tour. We had our lunch at Chicken Ati-Atihan then proceeded with the trip, first with Dauis Church, Bingag Ostrich, Bee Farm,  and ended the day tour at Hinagdanan Cave, it has two natural holes that light the steps down to its underground swimming pool. We had dinner at the resort with the whole group.

The next day, we visited the Man Made Forest, Tarsier-world’s smallest primate, hanging Bridge,visited the Biggest python in captive, Baclayon Church, which is said to be the oldest stone church in the Philippines, Butterfly Farm, and the famous  Chocolate Hills. We had a sumptuous lunch served in the floating restaurant while cruising the scenic jade-green Loboc river  with a  singing band on board, it is a an eat all you can, what more can you asked for? The last leg of the Loboc river cruise was a stop at the soulful serenade and dance show by the Loboc river choir. We even visited other resort, the Bohol Beach  Club but decided to take a dip in our resort, though it is not the best of the beaches. But still the sunset relaxes our body and mind.
 
The last day would be island hopping. We witnessed the Bohol sunrise while going to Dolphin watching, we luckily spotted a younger dolphin and another big dolphin. We then went to Balicasag ISland to have our  breakfast before we rode a boat to snorkel. We had much fun snorkeling and stayed on the water for more than 2 hours before going back to the island to have our lunch. We then proceeded to Virgin Island to take a swim only to find out it was just waist deep and we contented on walking around the island for a time before staying on the waist deep water and some picture taking. We then went back to our resort and pack our things for our departure at 7:00am the following day.

It was a wonderful summer vacation…sunburns and leg wounds due to corals make it  also memorable for me. Im looking forward for another trip like this.

My Cebu Trip

March 20, 2010, 08:00am Cebupacific bound to Cebu.  We lined up at the check in counter, we were a little bored and wondering what the crew took long to assist everybody in the line. I have 3 boys with me and it was  their first time to fly and they were excited and not  minding the long line…continuously taking pictures of us. At the other line, we noticed Lyn Ching with her crew also lined up and apparently will be boarding the same flight as ours. At last, we were through checking in our baggages and directly board the plane. After more than an hour, we landed in Mactan Airport in Cebu and directly went to our hostel, Sugbutel, to freshen up and get ready for some city tour. We first visited the Sto Nino Church then proceed to Magellan’s Cross. We had lunch at the resto beside the Crown Regency, where we watched the 4D The Lost Island. We then proceed to Shamrock where we bought some Cebu delicacies. We even went to their wet market (is it Camdon market?…it was like a Divisoria market) trying to find good danggit, only to realized later that  it was already available in Sm Cebu. We then went back to our hostel and had some rest. About 5pm, we went to SM Cebu, it is just a walking distance from where we stay. We had our dinner and bought personal things and additional pasalubong. We ended the day at videoke singing about 20-25 songs.
 
We went back to our hostel, updated our FB and had a good night sleep.