Destination Trip and Treat: Panglao Island, Bohol

My parents dropped us off to NAIA terminal 2 around 6am on a Friday morning. They kissed their grandchild goodbye for a 4 day beach trip with me. He and I have been waiting for this getaway for sometime now. It’s going to be a long weekend for us, 4 days and 3 nights at a beach resort in Panglao Island. Enzo can’t wait to see a starfish again and I can’t wait to wear my new green swimsuit and tan away to the sound of waves.

PAL flight took off just in time and in just one hour, Enzo and I are already inside a white car with a driver from the resort chatting his way to get a tour package out from us. Unfortunately for him, it’s my 3rd time to visit the Bohol, and I’ve been to all the tourist spots.
As soon as we walked our way to our resort, I could already feel that familiar smell, that familiar feeling. The beach salty air becomes thick, and like the rim of a margarita, I can taste it on my own lips. But this trip is all motherly bonding. I can’t have alcohol nor dance naked (it’s not like, I can…but) the point is that, this is a trip for my kid to enjoy the beach.

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Bohol find: TREE HOUSE

Here's something that you won't find when you google for a place to stay in Bohol! :) If you're on a budget trip and not very particular for a luxurious stay, this tree house is surely a great find!!! :) Not only is it cheap, but it shares the same beach stretch with Bohol Beach Club!!! :D

The Dumaluan beach is the best beach in the Panglao island. It only has 2 resorts - Bohol Beach Club and Dumaluan Beach resort...which both consciously keeps the beach front clean.... The Dumaluan Beach Resort is cheaper than Bohol Beach Club. But it is still expensive for budget travellers like us. But the good thing about this resort is that they created an area where they built bamboo-made cottages, which are rented out at a cheaper rate.

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Restore Dungguan as Maribojoc’s Name

Restoring the historical or correct name of a place had been done by many countries. Even local governments here in the Philippines had restored correct names of their towns or cities. So there’s no reason why the House of Representatives could not restore Maribojoc’s old name Dungguan if the local legislative council would pass resolutions to effect the change. Naming an aguho tree as Maribojoc tree is so absurd just to make the name official.

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Wanted: Your very own beach paradise island – Bohol or Bantayan?

Aside from Boracay, the famous island with the ‘whitest beach in Asia’, the Philippines have many more paradise islands with white sandy beaches to offer.

2 of them can be found in the Visayas, a region relatively protected from the onslaught of countless Typhoons, with the worst this year, Ketsana (Ondoy) and Parma (Pepeng) causing havoc in the Northern part of the country.

Although both, Bohol or Bantayan could be your very own paradise-beach islands, they are quite different from each other. Let’s check how they compare to the traveler in search for his very own beach paradise island:

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Exploring Bohol in 24 hours

If someone asked me if I can experience and explore Bohol in 24 hours, I would tell him - "BEEN THERE. DONE THAT!" So, how did we do it exactly?

Upon touch down, we hired a car for 2,000 PHP (for 8 hours) to take us to all the exciting and tourist-y places in Bohol such as:

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Bohol Philippines (Loboc’s Floating Restaurants and Bohol Bee Farm)

Three weeks ago I visited Bohol for the 2nd time along with office friends. Honestly I was not really excited about the travel because Typhoon Ondoy happened a week before our scheduled trip. I was feeling a bit apprehensive because of utter fear of being stuck in an Island away from home – Makati, Philippines.

If there is one thing that I remember during my 1st trip in Bohol was the warm and gentle breeze the island has. Not too strong and not too meek; just about right for you to enjoy. There was also that usual short drizzles in the afternoon which I find relaxing to steady the heat of summer tropics.

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Bohol 2009

We spent our honeymoon to the beautiful island of Bohol. We stayed at a nice and cozy Dumaluan Beach Resort & Hotel at the Panglao Island. And of course! I didn’t hesitate taking pics of the wonderful site.

Please bear with me as I post this blog, I only got some of my pics edited. I promise to post the others sometime soon, after I get to post process them.

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Our Ondoy story in Bohol

We were so ecstatic that the sun was up when our plane landed in Cebu, morning of Sept26... we were very thankful that our flight was not cancelled despite the heavy rains the night before and the coming typhoon... we found out later that the flights from Manila after ours were cancelled... this was our first dodge of Ondoy...

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