Bohol Tour Day 2

Since it was our first time to have a vacation as husband and wife, we decided to tour Bohol ala Lonely Planet. No tour guide, just the two of us visiting Bohol tourist spots.

We woke up early the next day and had breakfast at the Nuts Huts restaurant. They serve organic and healthy food. If we didn't have anywhere to go that day, we would have just stayed at the resto and enjoyed the pristine sight of nature. You can just relax the day away. There are magazines and books which you can read as you lay on a hammock. We read a notebook which served as guests' travel journal. Any guest could write their travel experiences in this notebook.


At the restaurant, there is a Bohol map on the wall and list of places worth seeing. We checked it and planned where we will go for the day. Rita advised us to group the places we want to see since it will take more than a day to visit all of Bohol's tourist spots. We decided to check out the Chocolate Hills in Carmen and Simply Butterfly Conservation Centre in Bilar.

After our breakfast, we started to use the dirt road to reach the highway. As we were reaching the highway, a bus stopped and the driver told us to ride the bus. I told him we're not riding just yet since I was planning to take pictures first. Bad decision! The next bus came after 30 minutes!

Tip: The most common commuting vehicle in Bohol is the habal-habal or motorcycle. Another is the bus which leaves the Tagbilaran Terminal every half hour.

Chocolate Hills is the most famous tourist place in Bohol. It's called Chocolate Hills because these hills take on the brown shade during summer. It just rained when we came here so it's kinda foggy.




A man offered us to take our picture using our camera, for free. He suggested poses for the Cook and I, together with a large hill. This one is my favorite.

We left Chocolate Hills after a few more pictures were taken. We hired a habal-habal driver, Mang Louie, to bring us to Simply Butterflies since waiting on a bus may take some time. That was my first time to ride a motorcycle for a long period of time and passing through several towns.


I asked the Mang Louie to first drop us off the Bilar Church which I saw when riding the bus earlier. The church was old and some carpenters rebuilding one part of it.

We arrived at Simply Butterflies and paid the entrance, P20 each. A Simply Butterflies staff welcomed us and immediately gave a lecture about butterflies. We learned that the male butterfly is smaller than its female counterpart.

And that there is a half-male and half-female butterfly. An anomaly of nature indeed!

The staff toured us around Simple Butterflies and showed us a collection of cocoons, butterflies (you can even touch a butterfly!), flowers and plants.

They have very ripe mangoes and sponges soaked in honey and water to feed the butterflies. Butterflies fly when the sun is out and since it just rained that afternoon, they were hiding behind the leaves. :(


After Simply Butterflies, Mang Louie drove us to the Hanging Bridge in Sevilla. We paid P10 each to scare the he** out of us. I mean, to cross the hanging bridge. I don't know what came over me to cross that bridge! The bridge was made up of bamboo and when you lose a step, the Loboc River will welcome you. Scary for a person like me who is afraid of heights. As we start crossing the bridge, a group of Korean girls were joyfully jumping on the bridge making it shake. Making it more scary for me. Waaah!

Luckily, we were able to cross the two hanging bridges safe and sound! (Can you see how I "grabbed" my husband and the railing?)