We woke up early moved our luggage to our new hostel “Coco farm”, which was much much nicer, we each stayed in dorms, it had atomosphere and character. It was in a small wood and the buildings where all raised, thatched huts with wooden floors and weaved bamboo walls.

We then went straight from there back into town to on the back of a bike to catch our day tour of Bohol which included many different things:

1. The Coco hills: really unusual hill formations caused by coral formations eroding away.
2. Tarsier sanctuary: tiny little nocturnal monkeys with the largest eyes, but entirely around the size of my fist. They were really cute, but very very tired. Apparently if you touch them, they get so traumatised that they kill themselves O.o
3. We held a huuuuuuge white and orange Python, it had some record for being the biggest Python. It was really interesting to feel: it’s skill and bones were really quite separate and it was very strong as it moved about.
4. We went on a huuuuuge and amazing zip wire!! It was sooooo cool! I really enjoyed that! The views on it were amazing! It was also two zip wires, the first one was two together so I raced Amy down, although she had a very large headstart, I managed to overtake her by the end, and when you got to the end, it very much looked as if you were going to hit the wall as it decelerated very very suddenly and very last moment, but that part was rather exhilarating both times. That was fun 🙂
5. We had a really lovely river cruise buffet where we sat around, lazed down a really beautiful river eating loads of really nice local foods listening to the onboard band play some songs. After eating we went and stood on the bow of the boat and enjoyed the scenery going past. The river looked so nice to kayak down, unfortunately we later found out that there was nowhere to hire kayaks from and just explore, but oh well.
6. Saw some local monuments.
7. Walked across one of the beautiful rivers on a very suspect bamboo bridge and drank a fresh coconut on the other side.
8. We went to a butterfly reserve and saw and played with lots of really beautiful butterfly.

When we arrived back in Panglao we shared a lovely pizza on the beach as we listened to a local band play and the waves splashing in.

We then tried some of the local rum Tandau (it’s literally everywhere and it’s often the only liquor you can buy, it’s P50 for a 0.5L botal, it’s less than a class of a soft drink at a lot of places.

We then went and swam in the sea, partially overcoming a phobia of mine (swimming in the sea at night). It turns out that Amy severely overestimates her swimming and mushroom floating ability 😛