You can go to Bohol Trip Part 1 to read the beginning of our trip and Bohol Trip Part 2 to read our second day in Bohol!
I forgot to mention that waking up in Aliguay was the exact opposite of waking up back in CDO City. The only similar feature is that both houses are located by the road. And the rest is the exact opposite. You see, the house in CDO is by the national highway so that means what you hear is the traffic on the road. Annoying horns, speedy cars and motorcycles, rumbles of big trucks, too loud sound system of Emcor and Yamaha and all those traffic noise are just a regular daily dose of sounds. In Aliguay, what you hear are birds chirping away not just in the morning but the whole day. Cicadas singing and roosters crowing are also abounding. The only traffic you hear from the road are occasional motorcycles and buses. Most of the time if you do not have a television or radio turned on, then there’s just silence. And it’s a welcoming silence to me.
By Sunday, most of us woke up early for the 630am mass at San Roque chapel a few kilometers from Aliguay. Ryan and I decided to leave Hammie and Louie with the nanny at the house since Louie just woke up by 630am and Hammie was still dreaming away by the time we left. What amazed me at the chapel were the surrounding trees. At the Aliguay house, you can hear birds chirping better than the cicadas singing but at the chapel, the singing cicadas were deafening. It just goes to show how rural the place is and it made me realize that such places do still exist in the fast urbanization of the country.
After the mass we went back to the house, ate breakfast and got ready to go to Loboc. Good thing that Louie’s rashes were diminishing. Kuya Cyrus drove almost an hour to get to Loboc from Bool as we stopped by there first to leave some stuff for Fr. Jun. We passed by Corella on our way to Loboc where the natural habitat of the tarsiers are located and a camping area is also available but we did not visit. My husband and I planned to go there next time and go camping with the kids when they get older. With the Beauty and the Beast musical as our background music through the drive to Loboc, we were excited for the adventure ahead.
We arrived at the Loboc Ecotourism Adventure Park by 1130am and we went ahead riding the cable car. Daddy, Ryan, Hammie, Lyn and I were the ones to ride it. Louie was left with Tita Rose, Angel, Dong2, Inday, Undoy and Kuya Cyrus to watch our cable car ride. And was I relieved that Louie did not ride the cable car with us! The second the cable car started to move forward, I almost wanted to go back. The cable car was dangerous! Even for the extremely adventurous it was still dangerous as I did not expect it to be that high above the cliff with the Loboc River below. The only security we all had was the strap placed on our laps from one end of the seat to the other and the vertical steel bar in front us. The cable car was open and you can fall off it if you want to. I wished the ride would end fast but I have to wait for a little over than three minutes for it to end and ride another three minutes going back. Whew! Thank God I survived that ride but I’m thinking of not doing that again if my life depended on it.
Unfortunately for me I did not get to ride the zipline as I was wearing a dress. Tsk tsk. I could easily have given up the cable car for the zipline anytime but that day was not for me to ride it. Better luck next time. So it was just Ryan, Dad and Undoy – it was his birthday – who got to ride the zipline. While they were enjoying their zipline ride, we noticed that a Loboc floating restaurant was cruising at the river below, realizing that the cruise ended somewhere below the adventure park.
By the way rates are as follows: P250 per person for the cable car, Hammie rode it for free; P350 for the zipline ride but if you pay for both rides you can save P50. You can also ride the zipline with a kid at your side if you want to and the price I did not know. Combo price for one way ride of cable car and zipline ride going back is also available for P350. The adventure park have their own cameramen to take pictures of the cable car and zipline ride that costs P250 for all pictures burned in a CD with one printed picture of your choice.
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