day 3 at Bohol - 02 March 2008
we're all sick when we woke up at around 8am, dunno if its because of our lack of sleep, or we've been out in the water the whole day on our 2nd day, or was it a sign of us getting old (madali na mapagod!). anyways none of us wanna get up, its our free day no particular itenerary we just planned on checking out the resort and the stretch of alona beach, but since we're feeling a bit sick we just had breakfast in bed (buti na lang masisipag un mga kaibigan ko! me tiga timpla ng kape, me tigalagay ng palaman sa sandwich, at me tigalagay ng hot water sa cup noodles - kakain ka na lang, san ka pa hehehe).
after our breakfast we're still feeling lazy so we decided to sleep in until lunch time after all we still have the afternoon to explore. if hunger didnt woke us i guess we could have slept all day long! it was around 4pm that we're able to go out of our room, finally, and we decided to have lunch at Trudis Place and get to explore alona beach as well.
a fallen tree on our way to trudis place. sorry no photos of the famous carinderia since im soooo hungry (of course naka-2 rice na naman ako noh), no photos of the food as well, but it's true! the food at that place is delicious! i specially liked the chicken cordon blue yum yum!
after our very late lunch we proceed to the far end of alona beach, i think this part is in front of the alona palm resort or something. the water is sooo refreshing, soothed our lagnat laki moment.
dang! bat ang gaganda namin? hahahahaahaha LOL, ok again my friends are up for grabs, bid now!!!! =)
twas 7 already when we decided to have dinner, we explored every nook and cranny of alona beach as in, we' re running out of bread and soda so we looked for a bakery, and someone told us that we should take the eskinita to go to the road leading to the bakery and we'll find the fruit fairy there.
we found the bakery with no problem and we even found a grocery store and the prices are real, i mean like the prices here in manila. coz like if you buy a 1.5 coke along the alona beach sarisari stores its worth 70pesos, grabe noh... anyways we're so glad that we find that place and we even saw carinderias that sells really cheap food, but we only bought rice from the since we're planning to have a special dinner in our room.
and take note they have an ATM machine at one of the roads from the eskinita!!! we really thought that bohol is like very far from the civilization LOL, so we're all like yehey. btw in case you need to go anywhere far from alona beach, they have this special public transportation - as in single na motorbike - wherein you just flag them down and say angkas! dont know much they charge though.
here's our special dinner!
i told you we were traveling on a budget hehehehe look at our entree - we have red sardines, spanish sardines, and tuna, we even have a soup - la paz batchoy noodles! =)
since it is our last night, we really have to go out and check out bohol's night life, though we already figure there wont be much, as i've mentioned in my previous post there is almost no night life at bohol. i think they are following a certain decibel of noise here, like you really have to be at the bars doorstep to hear their music, which i think is ok, you dont need to shout at each other just to hear whatever anyone is saying, you know what i mean, coz really most bars are so noisy. not much party people here, the crowd is behaved. if you're too fond of gimick nights then bohol aint for you. "live bands" are only until 10pm and by 12am the bars are already closed.
we didnt really stay that long, after a bottle we went back to our room, they prefer my own mix hehehehe, that's my task actually they prepare breakfast and tidy up the room, i take care of our drinks :) easy eh?
to be continued...
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another photo op while waiting for the driver to pick us up, was planning to have lunch at the airport or when we arrive at manila but our driver (forgot his name) was able to convince us to check out bohol bee farm first before heading to the airport.
twas already past 12 when we arrived at bohol bee farm and we decided to have lunch here, figuring we can still catch our flight which was scheduled at 2pm since we can really eat fast, you just have to take my word that we eat like carpenters. we made sure from the waiters that they have to serve the food within 5-10 minutes since we're really running out of time.
while waiting for our order we went down to this beautiful area and we had tons of photos in here too. the place looks really relaxing and i bet having a massage in here is bliss! after having our lust for photo satisfied we went up again and just in time our food arrived.
whoo yummy! we would have really missed a lot if we havent decided to have lunch at bohol bee farm. the food is very very delicious, and all the stuff they have are grown in the farm, organic food. their bread is made from heaven including their jam and spread. soooo delicious! too bad i dont eat veggies and flowers.
after our breakfast we're still feeling lazy so we decided to sleep in until lunch time after all we still have the afternoon to explore. if hunger didnt woke us i guess we could have slept all day long! it was around 4pm that we're able to go out of our room, finally, and we decided to have lunch at Trudis Place and get to explore alona beach as well.
a fallen tree on our way to trudis place. sorry no photos of the famous carinderia since im soooo hungry (of course naka-2 rice na naman ako noh), no photos of the food as well, but it's true! the food at that place is delicious! i specially liked the chicken cordon blue yum yum!
dang! bat ang gaganda namin? hahahahaahaha LOL, ok again my friends are up for grabs, bid now!!!! =)
i told you we were traveling on a budget hehehehe look at our entree - we have red sardines, spanish sardines, and tuna, we even have a soup - la paz batchoy noodles! =)
since it is our last night, we really have to go out and check out bohol's night life, though we already figure there wont be much, as i've mentioned in my previous post there is almost no night life at bohol. i think they are following a certain decibel of noise here, like you really have to be at the bars doorstep to hear their music, which i think is ok, you dont need to shout at each other just to hear whatever anyone is saying, you know what i mean, coz really most bars are so noisy. not much party people here, the crowd is behaved. if you're too fond of gimick nights then bohol aint for you. "live bands" are only until 10pm and by 12am the bars are already closed.
approaching bohol beach club, aint it beautiful? you have to pay an entrance fee of 100 to swim here but according to our boatman, we dont need to pay since they wouldn't know anyways that we're not guests of the resort but being good citizens that we are, we actually looked for their reception area and paid an entrance fee, and an additional 250 per head for our dinner
i think bohol beach club has the longest beach shore among all the beaches at bohol, but their room rates is soooo expensive, why pay for a huge price if you can spend the day there for just a 100 diba, and besides we're quite happy with our room at bohol divers club, but then again we have to try this place, highly recommended to us.
see that guy wanna embrace the sky and the sea hehehehe (uma-art)
relaxing...
chillax chillax
sarap matulog!
adik sa pictures :)
while smoking, we cant help but notice this strange group, try to look harder in this photo
ok, i've zoomed in my camera for you to check out these guys! i dunno what they're trying to do, its just insane seeing someone swim with caps! and with full gear gym attire - as in jacket and jogging pants! haller beach ito people!!!! and just to prove that they are crazy, when we went to swim at the pool, they were like "sunbathing" at the poolside! tsk tsk tsk really crazy!
well whatever... ok, i am selling my friends... go take your pick, bidding starts at $10! LOL
another crazy group picture :)
LOL mowdel mowdelan ang drama ditech hahahahaha
after spending the whole day swimming (and taking pictures) we got hungry and ate at around 7pm. food is great, again sorry no photos of the food! (PG talaga eh).
us goofin around at the bohol beach club signage (hehehehe adik talaga!) while waiting for Tata to pick us up. didnt notice how far we've traveled by land to our resort since we're busy talking about the days events. thought of going out to check out bohol's night life but we're too tired, so again we stayed at our room and drink my mix. we slept at past midnight... no wonder we're all sick the next morning.
a beautiful sunrise welcomed us, i have always been a sunset lover but this sunrise is a beauty, first time to see sunrise in years, well i guess that's why sunrise is more special... you have to be a morning person to catch one.
dolphin watching - our first itinerary for the day. our call time is at 530-600 am and we woke up at past 5am and we're really like in a hurry since our boatman already knocked on our door, but still we only finished taking shower at past 6 and we we're really hurrying already, imagined we didnt even had the time to brush our hair! LOL we kinda run to the boat with our things and our breakfast.
i think that irritated our boatman more, coz we were just depending on him to tell us where the dolphins are! he was like there, to the left, to the right, LOL and we we're like screaming with delight whenever we see dolphins, kinda exciting to see them swimming in their own turf
they actually joked that it wasnt really dolphin watching but dolphin hunting instead... see the boats going in the same direction? we're all heading to a group of dolphins!
you have to look hard to see the dolphin in the photo, i didnt realized how difficult it was to capture these dolphins on camera!
and they seem to tease us really, just showing a bit of tail here and there...
luckily i was able to capture these dolphins and we decided that its enough already, enough adventure and our throats are kinda hoarse already from screaming! =)
we then decided to go to proceed to balicasag island, where according to them is a very nice dive site with amazing corals and marine life.
approaching the island, this is the balicasag lighthouse, sorry i dont have a close up photo of the lighthouse, no intention of sightseeing, i went there because of the corals
went back for lunch at around 1130 and boy am so glad we ordered our food from the locals! it is delicious, i even had two rice and when we asked for the lady for our bill, she asked me if i dont need an extra rice! LOL (di naman halata na malakas ako kumain diba!)
