The Nomads spent this year’s vacation on the beautiful province of Bohol in the Visayas region. Here’s our recollection of that wonderful getaway.
Our plan is to take a 4-day 3-nights stay in Bohol so we booked our flights with Air Asia. For the tour, we were able to get a 3-days 2-nights deal with Bohol Coco Mangos Place, a resort that we discovered by surfing the net.
Wearing our newly created The Nomads shirts, we departed from Manila on August 12 and we arrived in Tagbilaran Airport after an hour of flight, itching and ready to discover the beauty of Bohol.
Disaster Strikes
Well, not an earth-shattering disaster but just a little miscommunication with our host on our arrival date. We were expecting to see someone holding a placard of our names at the arrival area but no one came. I called our contact person only to discover that they thought we were coming on the 13th of August. The owner was apologetic by the way and she said that she will do her best to accommodate us. After about half an hour, our welcome party came.
This is Day One
This is actually our first time to go on a packaged tour on our own. Our expectation is that we would be taken to the resort, prepare our stuff, and then go on and start the tour. The guide who met us, however told us that we will immediately start with the Panglao Island tour that was included in our tour package.
Here are the exciting places that we went through:
- Dauis Church
- Bohol Bee Farm
- Hinagdanan Cave
- Panglao Church
After going through, taking snapshots and enjoying each of these places, we headed to our resort. We said goodbye to our guide and went to meet our host. As said earlier, there was a little miscommunication about our date of arrival with the resort’s staff. This, however went on to become an advantage for us, there was no room available for us so they gave us a bigger room. A free and welcome upgrade.
We then put our stuff in order and took a few minutes rest. On that night, we went to Alona Beach by the resort’s free shuttle service to have our dinner. After our meal, we headed to the beach area and watched the shows. Utoy enjoyed watching the fire dancers. We also enjoyed an acoustic band performance.
Day Two
This part of the tour is called the Countryside Tour. Our guide came by 8:00am and we set off immediately. Our itinerary for today:
- Blood Compact Shrine
- Baclayon Church
- Exotic Animal Park
- Butterfly Garden
- Loboc River Cruise
- Loboc Adventure Park
- Chocolate Hills
- Bohol Tarsier Sanctuary
- Man Made Forest
- Sevilla Hanging Bridge
Our tour package ended today but we still two more days to spend in Bohol. The resort staff told us that they have a motorcycle that is available for rent. We rented one so that we can have a ride in going to the other places not covered in our tour package.
By night, riding our rented motorcycle, we went back to Alona Beach for dinner and again watch the performers in the beach area.
Day Three
Days one and two were spent with our guides and both talked about the Tenten Bridge. We have our motorcycle today so we headed to that bridge and took some photos. After that we headed to the city in search for souvenir items and an local dining place.
We, however failed to plan accordingly and so we ended up drawing circles in the city. Instead of a souvenir shop or a local dining place we ended up on a mall. And as usual, Utoy is the happiest of us all. For he was able to catch a lot of Pokemons. He didn’t even mind that he is still wearing his helmet while catching those digital monsters.
Day Four
This is the last day of our stay in Bohol. For now, we have to say goodbye. There is still a lot in Bohol that we have not covered. A return trip is not impossible.
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