This blog is the fourth part of a five part series of out recent Bohol Adventure. I hope you enjoy reading ad much as we enjoyed out trip. Happy reading!
If you have not read the other entries Bohol Trip Part 1, Bohol Trip Part 2 and Bohol Trip Part 3.1 just click the titles.
If you have not read the other entries Bohol Trip Part 1, Bohol Trip Part 2 and Bohol Trip Part 3.1 just click the titles.
After the adventure, Dad decided to have our lunch at the Loboc River Cruise. There are four operators who offer lunch buffet at the River Cruise with the same price of P300 per head, P250 for kids and free for small children the only difference is the food they serve and how they decorated their floating restaurants. For the ones paying P300, there is an additional entrance fee of P100 and free for kids 11 below. In my opinion the price was too high for local tourists. Bohol tourism should also take into consideration local travelers of the country to think the food was just ordinary and simple. But anyway we still enjoyed the river cruise. There were two ports of choice where the floating restaurant can dock to watch the boholanons dance their local dances.
When we reached the point where we need to turn around, we all noticed the cable car and the zipline ride above. When our cruise was about to end we saw the Loboc Old Church and the Museo de Loboc. I remembered the first time I was able to visit the church way back July 2007 during our honeymoon, we saw the Loboc Children’s Choir members starting to gather to practice but we did not wait for them to perform.
We got off the floating restaurant and wanted to go to our next adventure even if it was just going to look at some tarsiers nearby. But before we could leave, we saw a buzz café at the area and we couldn’t resist buying ice cream! I ate a scoop of avocado ice cream but wanted to buy another scoop. I bought a scoop each of malunggay and pandan all to myself, he he. Oh Hammie did ask for some but I ate a lot of it.
We went to a little tarsier sanctuary a few kilometers from the river cruise area. That day was the fight between Pacquiao and Mosley, when we arrived at the tarsier sanctuary, the boys immediately went to the tv and watched the bout. Louie was asleep with his papa holding him so I brought Hammie to the tarsiers but did not want to go near them. We only stayed there for a few minutes and went back to Aliguay after there.
Before we went to the house, Kuya Cyrus brought us to a mini zoo where a Burmese python was displayed for everyone to see, of course with an entrance fee that costs P20 each. There were other animals there like wild cats, monkeys, a Persian cat, iguana, two agilas, snakes, etc. I cringed at the sight of the python. Its body was as big as Ryan’s torso, so you can imagine how big it is but not as long as the usual python.
It got me thinking if that mini zoo had permit to operate as the condition of the place is quite dismal. One of the monkeys had a wound on its tail and was bleeding; one of the snakes had a wound around its neck; the cages of the wild cats were too small among other things I observed there. The mini zoo was just situated at the backyard of a house so it made me wonder if such animal zoo is allowed and if the animals were properly documented. Well anyway I can’t dwell on that for now as we went to the port near the Maribojoc old church and watched the view from there.
The port had a great view of the bay by that place. Bohol is not yet urbanized, though I hope it will be kept that way and the sight manifests that. Thick greenery can be seen and dots of house here and there are the only signs that the area is inhabited. Kids by the port swam into the sea and catch some sea horses, according to them, to play with. They even caught some other thing that I have no name for, like a sea anemone or something. What a nice way to spend their summer afternoon.
After the long day we then went back to Aliguay to enjoy the rest of the day. There is a 40 inch lcd television so the rest of the night was spent on watching some cartoons and coloring some pictures on Hammie’s book. Tomorrow will be the last day of adventure to be spent on the beach!
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