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LOBOC RIVER

A Cruise on Loboc River

IJsselstein, Thursday, 27 July 2006 03:14:07

For many years, it has been on our wish-list, and this time our program would finally include a trip on one of the well-known floating restaurants on Loboc River.

Casa Rocha-Suarez Heritage Center Address: Galle Franklin 3, Sitio Ubos, Tagbilaran City Phone: +63 920 950 3799 Phone: +63 2 888 6951 Email: rocha.suarez@gmail.com

We arrived in Tagbilaran early in the morning to meet with some guests arriving from Manila. Their flight got delayed somewhat, so we took the opportunity to first visit the Casa Rocha-Suarez, an ancestral family house in Tagbilaran, which was recently (April 2005) opened as a museum. This house, over a century old, had been restored, and now houses several historical artifacts that relate about the previous owners, and give an impression of upper-middle class life in the late Spanish and early American era. Particularly nice are the window shades, carefully made from shells in a wooden frame. These frames can slide aside to let in fresh air, or block sunlight, as the time of the day dictates.

After some time, our guests arrived, and we left for Loboc, where the floating restaurant would depart. This is a easy 30 minute ride, which passes through Barangay Bool, where you can see the Sandugo Monument, and Baclayon, which has one of the nicest old churches in Bohol, and a small museum with old church relics. If you look at your right hand side while driving to Baclayon, you can also see a very big Balite tree.

In Loboc we first visited the church. The parish church of Loboc is certainly worth the visit, and has several attractive murals on the its ceilings. Attached to the church is the old convent, which is unique in its three-story design. Nowadays, the convent serves as the parish office, but also houses a small museum, and, when lucky, you can hear the famous Loboc Childrens Choir practice here. The basement of the convent houses a small exhibition dedicated to the musical history of Loboc, and the various prizes won by the Choir are on display here as well. You can buy CDs of the choir at the entrance of the museum.

The Loboc church lies adjacent to the Loboc River, close to a concrete bridge to nowhere that has become a monument to wasteful planning and corruption in Bohol. The bridge is not complete, and to complete it, the centuries old Loboc church will need to be demolished. Luckily, that has been avoided. Rumour has it that this bridge was actually never to be build at all, but should serve as a cover-up for some scheme to funnel public money to private hands. Somehow, the scheme was thwarted, and the bridge got actually build... The best thing that can be done is demolish it, but that would again cost another 50 million pesos of public money.

Near the church is also the departure place of the floating restaurants. These floating restaurants consists of two banka-hulls, over which a large wooden platform is placed. On this platform, numerous tables are placed, and a band plays music. Different boats play different styles of music, so, if you make a careful choice, you can dine with your favourite music. On our boat, they were playing mostly popular jazz and blues style music, which, although you would expect it on the Mississippi, was definitely not out of place here as well.

As the boat takes of, the buffet begins. On the middle table all kinds of Philippine delicacies are presented, and while eating, you can enjoy the lush green landscape slowly sliding along your table. The small outboard engine works hard to move the vessel against the current. Life along the river side goes on as it must have done for centuries, with children swimming, people passing by in small bankas or canoes. On certain points along the trip, daring kids climb in a large coconut tree overhanging the river, and jump in the water very close to the floating restaurant.

Children jumping into Loboc River

The end of the trip, which takes about an hour is Busay falls. The falls are not high, about one and a half meter at most, but mark the point where the floating restaurant cannot go any further, so here they stay for a while to allow the guest to look at the landscape. After some time, the return trip starts. Going downstream, we return much faster to our point of return.

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The Chocolate Hills

IJsselstein, Sunday, 31 March 2002 05:33:17

The Chocolate Hills are probably Bohol's most famous tourist attraction. They look like giant mole hills, or as some say, women's breasts, and remind us of the hills in a small child's drawing. Most people who first see pictures of this landscape can hardly believe that these hills are not a man-made artifact. However, this idea is quickly abandoned, as the effort would surely surpass the construction of the pyramids in Egypt. The chocolate hills consist of are no less than 1268 hills (some claim this to be the exact number). They are very uniform in shape and mostly between 30 and 50 meters high. They are covered with grass, which, at the end of the dry season, turns chocolate brown. From this color, the hills derive their name. At other times, the hills are green, and the association may be a bit difficult to make.

Legend has it that the hills came into existence when two giants threw stones and sand at each other in a fight that lasted for days. When they were finally exhausted, they made friends and left the island, but left behind the mess they made. For the more romantically inclined is the tale of Arogo, a young and very strong giant who fell in love with an ordinary mortal girl called Aloya. After she died, the giant Arogo cried bitterly. His tears then turned into hills, as a lasting proof of his grief.

However, up to this day, even geologists have not reached consensus on how they where formed. The most commonly accept theory is that they are the weathered formations of a kind of marine limestone on top of a impermeable layer of clay. If you climb the 214 steps to the top of the observation hill near the complex, you can read this explanation on a bronze plaque.

How to get there

Plenty of tourist guides and tour operators will be happy to bring you to the chocolate hills, either as a separate trip or as part of a day tour. However, if you want to go here on your own, from Tagbilaran, you will have to go the integrated bus terminal in Dao and catch a bus going to Carmen. If you look like a stranger, you will have a hard time not finding one. At the entrance of the bus terminal people will point you to the right bus. Make sure it is the first one to leave, and ask the driver to drop you off at the Chocolate Hills complex, about 4 kilometers before the town of Carmen. From there it is a 10 minute walk along a road winding up to the complex.

To get back to Tagbilaran, you will have to walk back to the main road, and wait for a bus to pass by. The last bus from Carmen to Tagbilaran leaves at four P.M. Alternatively, you can use the services of the motorcyclists who often wait here for tourist, and ride 'habal-habal,' or motorbike taxi.

If you're coming from Tubigon (arriving from Cebu by boat), a few buses go to Carmen daily, but sometimes you'll have to wait for some time for the bus to fill up. When you arrive in Carmen, you can catch the next bus or jeepney in the direction of Bilar, Loay or Tagbilaran, or ask a 'habal-habal' driver to bring you to the Chocolate Hills Complex.

The Chocolate Hills is an unusual geological formation in Bohol, Philippines.^[1] It is composed of around 1,268 perfectly cone-shaped hills of about the same size, spread over an area of more than 50 square kilometres (19 sq mi). They are covered in green grass that turns brown during the dry season, hence the name.

The Chocolate Hills is a famous tourist attraction of Bohol. It is featured in the provincial flag and seal to symbolize the abundance of natural attraction in the province.^[2] It is in the Philippine Tourism Authority's list of tourist destinations in the Philippines^[3]; it has been declared the country's 3rd National Geological Monument and proposed for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List.^[4]

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