Well after crashing on the beach for a whole day Peter decided that we have to once again do something meaningful (pfui!) so we started the Advanced Open Water diving course. It took five dives a lot of fun and fishes and here we are certified! Cheers Sander! In the meantime we were almost blown away by Fengsheng typhoon which hit the Philippines and the news. On our island it was only grade one but it caused massive amounts of rain, extremely strong wind, which made the house we lived in the give strange sounds, some power cuts and no internet for two days. But you can still dive during typhoon as we learned. Well, we have no desire to find out how the other grades feel like... It also caused a delay in our "schedule" as we were supposed to be already in Manila with Sladja :) but we will be there only tomorrow when flights resume.
So after finishing the dive course we rented a motorbike to see some of the bigger island of Bohol. It was a great drive through green rice paddies, small villages and incredibly friendly people. Our first stop was at a sanctuary for Tarsiers (we didn't think it was important but it was one of the two sights on the island). In the forest we saw the cutest little things with big popped-out eyes clinging to the tree branches. They are from some forgotten branch of the evolution tree, not really monkeys but similar and are so incredibly small and cute and can turn their head 180 degrees :) I realise it does not sound that exciting but have a look at the picture below.
We had lunch at a local market in a Eatery, a place with a few pots where the food has been cooked for the day and booming karaoke. It once again confirmed our lack of enthusiasm for Filipino kitchen.
Then once again through rice fields and forest off to the famous (at least around here) Chocolate Hills. Its not really clear how they were formed but there they are a thousand or so humps, which unfortunately are not made of chocolate :(. I liked the place very much but Peter is not very sure about the hills :)
So today is our last day (for now) at the beach, we head back to Manila tomorrow and then most likely to the island of Palawan.
1 comment:
Hey Peter!!!
I still look at ur blog once in while - really exciting!!
I'm in bangkok now, waiting for my gf to arrive. daniel left two weeks ago for germany (from shanghai). we had a great, yet often not easy journey through russia and china.
I've booked flight to cebu next month - so i'll be seeing the chocolate hills, too.
After these photos - i'm even more looking forward to going there.
Take care - have a safe journey, you two.
Dennis
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