A Three-Day Tour Around Bohol

Once you have arrived at Manila, directly proceed to the Central Office of the Philippine Airlines (PAL) at Makati City for your ticket. The plane you're riding in will carry you to Cebu.

At the Mactan Airport, you will transfer into another plane with its connecting flight bound for Tagbilaran City, Bohol. As you arrive in the island of Bohol, you may choose for whatever Hotel and Restaurant that may give you the best convenience in terms of accommodation and food. Are you prepared now for a tour? Now, let's start your suggested three-day tour around Bohol.

Bohol is proud to be surrounded by white sands in the coastal regions with its crystal clear seas suitable for 24-hour day and night swimming. One of these coastal regions is the place of Panglao, Bohol, your first point of interest, where there are a number of "beach resorts" with comfortably-built cottages and restaurants in the islands of Panglao and Dauis. Most popular picnic areas in the area are BOHOL BEACH CLUB, and the Dumaluan Beach Resort; an hour ride from the heart of Bohol, the City of Tagbilaran. A luxurious five-star resort-hotel, Bohol Beach Club offers cottages, picnic sheds and facilities for swimming , scuba-diving, snorkeling, fishing and boating. Near Panglao are the islands of Balicasag and Pamilacan. Balicasag Island is accessible in a 35-minute boat ride from the town of Panglao Island. The island has been developed into a dive resort for people who have a keen sense of awareness for marine preservation. One of the Philippines' richest scuba diving sites, Pamilacan Island is noted for its big whales called "Sanga". It is between the deep sea of Bohol and Mindanao. Beautiful small and big colored fishes are seen and sea shells abound in its surrounding waters. Accessible in an hour ride by pumpboat from Baclayon.

From swimming, you may proceed back to Tagbilaran City, taking a passing look at the Hinagdanan Cave in Dauis, Bohol, and drop by for a best rest at the Bohol Tropics Resort. With its breath-taking symphony of stalactites and stalagmites jutting out of the earth, the Hinagdanan Cave is certainly a sight to behold. Bring a pair of swimsuits if you want to swim in its cool springs aptly lit from above by natural skylights. Hinagdanan is only two and half kilometers from Dauis. Bohol Tropics Resort is a fully-developed beach resort, hotel and restaurant with its very amusing and well-planned landscape. There are available cottages conducive for night outs. A taxi-for-hire may help in going to this fabulous place. This is your first day.

On the second day, you may visit first, Baclayon Church, the acclaimed oldest Church in the Philippines built in the year 1500. With the Church's procurator, you will be introduced into the Baclayon Church Museum wherein a collection of old sacerdotal vestments, Mass paraphernalia, and other artifacts is open for public viewing. Just in front of this Old Church, there are many public vehicles travelling bound for the interior municipalities of Bohol, in which the world-renowned Chocolate Hills is located.

Before approaching Chocolate Hills, a man-made forest in Bilar, Bohol will entertain you with a cool-air-breathing climate enabling you to readily traverse the air-extracting mountains of Carmen, Bohol.

This place also is the sanctuary of the Philippine Tarsier, a big-eyed smallest monkey in the world.

"Chocolate Hills, a wonder of nature, consists of 1,268 hayrack hills with heights ranging from 40 to 120 meters. Rightly so, the Hills are considered as a Philippine National Geological Monument. During the summer, the dome-shaped, grass-covered limestone hills dry up and turn brown transforming the area into rows and rows of chocolate "kisses." Indeed, a visit to Bohol is incomplete without partaking of the province’s Peanut Kisses, crisp and crunchy delicacy made of eggs and peanuts, in honor of the wonder Hills." You have nothing to worry while you are in the Chocolate Hills. There is a hotel there intently built for visitors; equipped with rooms, swimming pool, and restaurant.

From Chocolate Hills, you are given the option of where to go and what to do for your third day. Either you may go back to Tagbilaran or you may proceed way go to the opposite end of Tagbilaran City, that is, the town of Talibon, Bohol, the place of the late President of the Republic of the Philippines, Carlos P. Garcia. If you intend to go back to Tagbilaran City, I suggest you may take a look on Bilar's Magsaysay Camp and Loboc's naturally beautiful, Tontonan Falls, the source of energy for Bohol's National Power Corporation. The inviting Loboc Cruz Dako (Big Cross)Loboc Church are worth visiting as well. It was built with sea bricks during the Spanish Era. If you have enough time before the third day ends, you may embark into an unplanned side-trip to Badiang Spring in Valencia, Bohol. The volume of water that gushes from a twin pipes makes the Badiang Spring fascinating. The waters flowing into the sea adjacent to the spring is a swimming pool where people from the towns enjoy during week-ends. This spring is located about 3 kilometers away from the poblacion of Valencia town toward east. From Valencia, Bohol, you may proceed to the municipality of Garcia-Hernandez, Bohol blessed also of its spring named Roxas Park. It has a beautiful park and adjacent to it are two swimming pools with water coming from the rocks. This park is situated 3 kms. away from the poblacion. On the spot is the life-size statue of the late President Manuel Roxas. Having a high regard for tourist visits in Garcia-Hernandez is its Philippine Sinter Corporation. Located 58 kms. away from Tagbilaran City, or 1 1/2 hours ride by bus or jeepney. A 133 million Limestone Project of the Philippine Sinter Corporation is the biggest industrial complex established in Bohol. It has a limestone deposit which will last for more than 600 years. The limestones are transported to the multibillion Philippine Sentering Plant in Villanueva, Misamis Oriental.

If you find Talibon, Bohol as the place to end your third-day visit, don't ever forget to go through the MCI Seaweeds Plantation in Bien Unido, Bohol, drop by Stock Farm and Japan-Philippines Irrigation Project both in Ubay, Bohol.

If ever you decided to extend your tour, I would suggest you to visit the page containing some other places of interest in Bohol.

One thing very important for your tour. Bohol's people is very approachable and free from lies and deception. Once you asked for, a right information will be truly given to you. Do not hesitate to ask any Boholano whom you will meet wherever you are.

What I may have here are not exact descriptions of Bohol's places. Your actual visit may prove you a best and memorable experience; only your phenomenally successful tour will manifestly tell the best of bests of Bohol's nature, places, peoples and culture.

GO ON...May you have a beautiful tour around Bohol.

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