Bohol Vacation: Part Deux

Ok, so I left off with our visit with the world famous tarsier now on with the show!

Our next destination was the Chocolate Hills of Bohol. But before that, we passed by the so called Man-made forest. It was part of a reforestation initiative way way before I was born. Thousands of Mahogany trees (this I later found out) line the road towards the Chocolate Hills. They where wirey, but stretch pretty high up, it kinda reminded me of a cathedral with the open space underneath the canopy.

Man-made forest


Finally the Chocolate Hills. No trip to Bohol would’ve been complete without seeing them. It was quite surreal actually. We were surrounded by hundreds of them, as far as you could see. Although they weren’t chocolate in color at this time of the year, it definitely screamed “Only in Bohol”.

chocolate hills!


I got your chocolate hill right here


We continued on until we finally arrived at the Lagunay Farm where we picked some pineapples for munchies. Man, those pineapples are hard to harvest! Just getting in to position to pick them off was quite difficult as the leaves of the plants were prickly. Then we had to break off the fruit from the stem, which was easier said than done. But all that hard work made it taste all the more better.

pineapple picking


Then came the barbecue. As I would think to be the norm, us guys did the cooking while the girls chatted and assisted us as much as they could. This is not a degradation or discrimination of women by any means, it’s just that men prefer the dirty work of barbecuing than women. Anyhoo, dinner was wonderful with tons of food, good company and fresh country air…

preparing our battle plan


fire in the hole


Here are some more pics of the Lagunay farm, I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves otherwise this is gonna be another long-ass post.

welcome!


lovers in paradise


the chaperone/bodyguard


practicing some artistic shots


itsy bitsy spider