Things have been busy this past few weeks, work, errands, check-ups, and all. So in short, there is so little time to blog. But for today, I'm giving it a shot, blogging while working. LOL. Nah, I just don't wanna put into waste all the beautiful places that we have visited in Bohol.
After Chocolate Hills, there goes the Butterfly Farm...
Man-made Forest
Mang Jun told us that in order to graduate from school, one must plant a tree in this forest. Cool, right? ;-)
Hanging Bridge
Tr's favorite tourist spot. Haha. I can still remember Tr shouting for help while crossing this bridge. Yeah, right.. "Nagbayad ng P10 para takutin ang sarili." :-D
Lunch Buffet at Loboc River
This was a very memorable experience, having lunch while cruising the Loboc river is such a romantic thing to do. *mushy* All in all, food was great, air is fresh (naman!), lunch buffet with friends, FTW!
At the end of the river, before it went back, it'll stop on a corner to see locals performing. Amazing. They are composed of mothers, teens, and talented children of Loboc.
Tarsier
"Bohol Tarsiers (Tarsius Syrichta) measures 4 to 5 inches and is considered as the world’s smallest primate. Its size is no longer than an adult man’s hand and weigh only about 113 to 142 grams or four to five ounces. The primate belongs to the more primitive sub-order Prosimii or prosimian that dates back 45 million years." Gets? Haha.
Source: http://www.bohol-philippines.com/tarsiers.html
Santa Monica Church (where all the pictorials are made. Haha)
This is a beautiful church, not the oldest but the interiors are amazing. If you get to see the movie of Sam Milby and Bea Alonzo's "Close To You", the scene where Sam proposed to Bea was shot in this Church. No wonder why they chose this location, there's something in this place that will make you fall in love. Nye, masabi lang. Haha.
Baclayon Church
"The Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception in Baclayon is considered to be one of the oldest churches in the Philippines. It is one of the best presevered Jesuit build churches in the region, although in the 19th century, the Augustinian Recollects added a modern facade and a number of stone buildings that now surround the church."
Source: http://www.bohol.ph/article8.html
Mang Jun's trivia: Did you know that Baclayon Church is made of blocks of Corals? Yeah. Awesome! :-D
Last stop for our Bohol Day tour: Blood Compact ("Blood Campact" as per Mang Jun, slang slang-an. Haha. )
"Also at Bohol, Legazpi was given a hostile welcome. From his Malay pilot, he learned that this hostility was due to marauding expeditions of the Portuguese. Coming from the Moluccas, the Portuguese raiders traversed the Visayan seas, and just a few years before, in 1563, had plundered Bohol and killed or enslaved about one thousand of its inhabitants. Of course, the Boholano's easily mistook the Spaniards for Portuguese.
Again with the help of his pilot, Legazpi explained two chiefs of Bohol, Datu Sikatuna of Bool and Datu Sigala of Loboc that they were not Portuguese, and had come in peace, and not to plunder or kill. This convinced the Kings to end their hostility and enter pact of friendship. On 16 March 1565 (or 25 March, records are confused due to the Gregorian calendar reform in 1584), Legazpi and Sikatuna performed the now famous blood compact, probably not far from the modern town of Loay. This event is still celebrated in Bohol every year in June with the Sandugo ("One Blood") festival. The same ceremony was repeated three days later with Sigala."
Source: http://www.bohol.ph/article26.html
Mang Jun also told us that before, some of the locals still practice this tradition, especially to those who want to be friends with them, or rather want to do business with them. An inch cut to their wrist, and a drop of blood is mixed to their local wine and both parties should drink it. Hmmm.
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