Bohol - Discovery nature and local wildlife

On the 6th of January, Jeroen Andres Delphine and I took on a private tour to go on the main island of the area: Bohol. The schedule ranges from hiking up the Chocolate hills to feeding monkeys.

Our first stop takes us to a Tarsier sanctuary. The tarsier is a very small animal that mostly lives at night. Its main peculiarity is mohave eyes 150 times bigger than its brain. It feels like the little buddy can see through you when staring at you.

A Tarsier.

Bohol is a rather large island located in the center of the archipelago and it takes us quite a ride to head toward the main attraction of the day: The Chocolate Hills.

Before getting there however we find ourselves hoping on a cruise buffet ship on the local river. The ride is beautiful and we get a glimpse at the local culture. Autochtones are bamboo dancing while we stuff ourselves with delicatessen from the region.

We got back to our car to get to the very center of the island and finally get to the infamous Chocolate hills. these hills get their name from the browny color of the burn grass in the end of dry season. Nothing remotely brown for us. The place is as green as it gets. The area is enjoying more than 1200 of these perfect domes that look more like camel backs than pill of chocolate to me.

A few of the hundreds of "chocolate hills".

It is already the middle of the afternoon and a few more stops are schedule. Chronologically we went:
- monkey feeding
- posing with pythons
- photographing some rise plantations
We skipped the butterfly park and preferred having a ice coffee in the city close to our resort.

My new friend is very curious with the GoPro.

I look rather relax. Let's be clear... I am not.

We were back to Panglao right after sunset.
Time for me to head to the local hospital for a great great piece of news: I would get ride of all my dressing and be freed from that daily time consuming activity.

I am truly stoked by the relative freedom and increased confort I am feeling all of a sudden.

The next day I decide to go back to Cebu to collect my race package for the Cebu half marathon taking place on the 8th of Jan for which I have registered for couple of months ago.
I will decided at the last moment if it is reasonable for me to actually run the event or take it easy discovering the city.