• the philippines in pictures: liempo and beaches with friends

    four islands, three flights, two ferry rides, scooters, white sand beaches, snorkeling, liempo, sketchy tricycle rides, cute kitties, wet markets, fourteen day old balut, chocolate hills, randomly caged crocodiles, atv rides, fresh coconuts, lunch on a private beach, beautiful sunsets,…

  • a quiet sunrise in bohol

    i must be a loner at heart.  las cabanas’ crowds almost singlehandedly ruined sunsets for me and while bohol’s sunsets were quiet amazing, i wanted more solitude.  haha and i woke up at 430 one morning to head out to…

  • the bohol bee farm, a complete review and recap

    the bohol bee farm… where do i start?  well to kick things off, their website is pretty bad.  i probably could have built a better one within my first month of being a webdesigner.  14 years ago.  it’s not very…

  • Hanging with Mr. Turtle

    We had it good at the Bohol Bee Farm. It was pretty easy to while away the day being lazy and eating ice cream every day. We did manage to do some water activities. Being the non-swimming Asians that we…

  • Rolling Through the Hills

    We came to Bohol to visit the famous tarsiers and chocolate hills. Bohol is a pretty big island so we hired a van to take the six of us instead of going by scooters as previously planned. This turned out…

  • how to eat balut like a filipino local

    ah yes.  weird food.  i’ve heard much about balut but have never had the pleasure of seeing it up close and personal.  for clarification, balut is a partially formed duck egg that is ideally served at 16 days old.  from…

  • first 24 hours in panglau/bohol

    joe: what do i like? -we got exactly what we asked for.  didn’t leave the bohol bee farm for the first day, ate all our meals here (in which all vegetables are grown on-site) -cheap and good massages.  first one…

  • weekly recap #12 – el nido & panglau

    q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. el nido (sei naczioni cottages, 5 nights), panglau (bohol bee farm, 5 nights extended one extra day) q. favourite meal a. filipino homestyle meal at golden cowrie.  i have…