Bohol: My First Plane Ride - Day 1

Country Side Tour - Day 1

As we all know, Bohol was been hit by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake recently, and many of the historic place mostly churches was been destroyed and a lot of tourist spot was been devastated by this massive earthquake a month ago.

I know this entry is a bit of late but please bear with me, I want to share my experienced when I visited that city with my friend last May 26, 2012.

Bohol is a part of visayas region, this town is known for its colorful hills, once you mention Bohol people would just exclaimed “ahhh it’s the CHOCOLATE HILLS”, the chocolate hill was also been nominated to be part of the seven wonders of the world together with underground river in Puerto Princesa, Palawan which won one of the slot.

Bohol was been blessed with mother nature, it offer a lot for the tourist who wants to explore the city and it offers a lot of activities aside from the famous Country side Tour. Bohol beauties is very captivating, If Palawan was been called a “Paradise” because of its underwater beauties, pristine beaches and limestone, well bohol was been called “God’s little Paradise’ by those who are caught off-guard by it mystery and charm – by bountiful bohol.

HOW TO GET THERE?

There are many ways to reach this town,

1. By plane via Airphilippines, Philippine Airline, Cebu Pacific, Air Asia has a daily flights to Tagbilaran which is the Main City of Bohol.

2. Bohol is a two hours away from Cebu via fastcraft, you will travel by sea, so if you are in Cebu, you can reserved at least a day to explore the town of bohol, most travel agencies will offer Country Side Tour for a limited time.

3. Via Bus, forgot the name of the bus company that cater to this service, the ride will take you 2 days I think, and according to my friend, she used this mode of transport (because she has a lot of time) just to view the Bicol Regions as she pass by to this regions.

But if you have a limited time you can go there by plane, recently most airlines company offers a seat sales, you can steal a huge bucks if you avail the seat sale you know, most seat sales are falling on off peak seasons, and the travel period would be 7–11 months after you booked your ticket, so you still have a lot of time to search and search and search.

Now let me tell you how I ended up visiting this place and why I still want to explore more of Bohol.

It was mid February 2012 when a friend of mine who is a native Boholano mentioned that she wants to visit her homeland after 10 years, I heard a lot of stories from her about bohol and I really want to go there and experienced those stories of hers, the falls, rivers, the views specially chocolate hills, the sea and everything that bohol that could offer for a first time visitor like me.

She told me the date and I mentioned this plan to my friend and she tag along with us and because the two of us has only a limited time, I booked at Zestair, P2,500.00 with extra baggage for our roundtrip ticket excluding terminal fees, that time, for me P2,500.00 is quiet cheap because the date is still fall into a peak season of our country and beside our travel date would be May.

Now let’s continue………..

As the day of our trip coming, my friend told me that she cannot come anymore with us, that something came up but she will just asked her relative in Bohol to accommodate us, but me and my other travel buddy declined the offer, instead, we did our own itinerary, that was the time I learned about the travel blogger, I contacted a lot of accommodation but most of them are fully booked, so I ended up with Boholspeed, they did not require any amount of reservation so I acquire their service for this trip.

There are a lot of things happened on this trip, but I better not mentioned the negative things that took place, besides, we catch our flight back, and the said itinerary was all been followed.

All is set, my leave, my budgets, clothes, everything. Though this is my first time to ride on a plane, I am not that nervous, because my travel buddy used to travel domestic and abroad, all I have to do is follow her instructions, though it’s her first time to be in Terminal 4 and it’s also her first time to travel bohol.

The day has come, and I am not feeling well that time, but not even sickness could hold me for this trip. Our flight is 1:10pm, we wake up a little late though, we prayed before we left the house, we Asked God for his guidance and protections for this trip. We left hope 9:30am we arrived around 11:25am at the airport, we had our early check inn, waited for our departure at the airport, for the first timer like me, I keenly observed everything around me.

screen for Flights Status

Terminal 4 - Waiting Lounge

Our flight was been called, feeling excited, gave our ticket/passes to the crews, of course, picture taking is a must every body do this, so don’t be shy hahahaha. Look for our seats, another picture taking and then the crew and the captain welcome us, before take off, we prayed again for God’s covering.

Aerial Shot before touch down

We arrived 10 minutes earlier at Tagbilaran Airport, picture taking before check out J , our service is waiting outside and we began our Day 1 tour, asked the driver to drop us at fast food because we are a bit of hungry.

First stop for this tour.. Boyoyoy - the smallest man in the Philippines, his relatives says that he was born blinded, and the family took care of him. No entrance here just donations for Boyoyoy.

Boyoyoy

Dauis church

Besides the Dauis Church

My travel Buddy with our Car

Bohol Bee Farm -

Next destination.... Hinagdanan Cave...

Last Stop.... Shell Museum - we bought few accessories here and met the owner.

owner / collector of shell museum

Our First Day tour ended up around 7:30pm, the driver took us to our accommodation Muro Ami.

Muro Ami is a beach front resort. Our room is worth P1,000.00 per night for 2 person without breakfast, Air Condition Room with Television, One bed shared for two, free wifi, the staff are accommodating and we just love their hot chocolate that cost P35.00 per order, they offer breakfast for P150.00 mostly are silog dishes.

***end of our Day 1 tour ***