• 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…

  • weekly recap #13 – cebu & hong kong

    q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. cebu (one night, palu palu), hong kong (uncle’s apartment, five days, aberdeen) q. favourite meal a. oddly enough, hong kong has been a nice break from the gluttonous eating…

  • 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…

  • from el nido to las cabanas beach

    aside from the small beach out of town, one of the more common beaches in the el nido area is las cabanas.  if you walk around town in the morning, trike drivers will consistently ask if you’d like to head…

  • daytrip to nacpan beach from el nido

    after napping until a late lunch on our first day in el nido we hired a pair of tricycles to head out nacpan beach about 45 minutes out of town.  we were able to get them down to 800pp per…

  • tricycle life

    now that we’re on the island/province of palawan, taxicabs are nonexistent.  we’re now in the land of tricycles. might not look like much but these little bikes can pack it in.  i’ve seen families of six fit on here with…

  • the day i cheated on lechon

    this seems to be a recurring theme for the last few weeks.  we find a great place to eat and have revisted them at least once before leaving the city.  i usually prefer going somewhere different for fear of missing…