Musings

A visit to one of the couple of Tarsier sanctuaries is also a standard inclusion in most visitors’ itineraries to Bohol. Tarsiers are small, monkey-like nocturnal mammals with huge eyes. Today, they are found only in selected countries in Southeast

We saw no other visitor groups during our morning visit to the Cadapdapan rice terraces. The Chocolate Hills of Bohol was the opposite: it was congested, full of visitors – both domestic and international – and the view from the

Day 08 — the heaviest day itinerary-wise of this 11-day trip. Early in the morning we checked out of our resort at Alona Beach, then began a road trip that would take us across the breadth of Bohol Island before

We had a pretty light day on Day 07. The morning was free for us to sleep in — the missus and kids at least, as I got up early to do aerial videos of Alona Beach at sunrise —

We’re having a fairly light day on Day 07 at Bohol Island: there’s just one itinerary activity today, and that’d be a river cruise and lunch at Loboc River. We’d be picked up at 11AM and will be back at

We had a few more hours to kill on Day 06 this morning before we had to say goodbye to Malapascua. So after taking a quick look at the morning sunrise videos I took with the DJI Mini 4 Pro

Unlike Sumilon Island, there was no fee or permit needed for me to do aerial videos of Malapascua Island: our resort’s host cheerfully said go right ahead and have fun when I asked. I guess this is in good part

Day 05: we checked out of Radisson Blu Cebu early in the morning, had a quick brunch at McDonald’s, then started the long 3.5-hour drive to the northern tip of Cebu Island, where we were received by our guide for

Another popular and must-do activity on Cebu Island is canyoneering in Badian town, which is also where Kawasan Falls is located. The journey after leaving Pescador Island and heading back to the mainland to Kawasan Falls was about 30 minutes.

Day 04 was a pretty heavy day, itinerary-wise, for us. The planned schedule was for us to check out of our resort in Moalboal early in the morning, then drive to the jetty where we’d boat over to Pescador Island

The Sumilon Sand Bar sits on the south-eastern end of Cebu and is usually an accompanying activity that visitors might include if they’re already in the Oslob area for the whale shark watching activity. The point where boats ferry visitors