Bohol

A largely rural island southeast of Cebu, most visitors head straight for Panglao, a small island close to Bohol's southwest coast. Beautiful white sandy beaches stretch along Panglao's south cost, the most well known and busiest being Alona Beach, A major attraction is diving, particularly around nearby Balicasang Island, a marine reserve renowned for its sheer submarine cliffs and large shoals of colorful fish.
The main island of Bohol is deservedly being more and more widely explored. For year, the main attraction has been the weirdly shaped Chocolate Hills, a landscape of large rounded 'humps' near Bohol's centre. However increasingly visitors are looking further afield, such as the island's numerous Spanish-era Churches, it's waterfalls and the tarsier sanctuary. a centerfot breeding this threatened tiny primate unique to the forest of the south.

Alona Beach in Panglao Bohol is famous for its coral white sand that stretches one and a half kilometers and ends in rocky cliffs at both sides. It is the most developed beach in Bohol and now one of the top tourist destinations in the Philippines.
Fringed by tall swaying coconut palm trees, some of which are leaning towards the sea, and the azure waters beyond, Alona Beach is a tropical paradise! Enhancing its looks are the blue and white outrigger boats that line the beach area ready to take visitors on an island tour or dive safari.
The morning sun’s rays on the shimmering waters are beautiful to behold. Afternoons are shaded for the sun sets at the other side of the island. Yet when the sun has set and darkness settles in, the stars come out one by one and grace the night sky.
Yes, I wanna bet that only in Bohol will you see so many stars! Small stars, big stars, red, yellow, and blue twinkling stars! They fill up the night sky! And if you are lucky enough, you will witness one or two falling stars and so can fervently utter a wish!

Left: Lying in central bohol the weirdly shaped Chocolate Hills so name their brown colour at the end of the dry season are one of the Philippines' icon and arguably Bohol's main visitor attraction

Above: At barely 8 cm. long, excluding its tail, the Philippines Tarsier, 'Tarsius syrichta', is possibly the world smallest primate.

Above: Along Bohol's south coast, a little east of Panglao Island, is the 17th century Baclayan Church, Believed to be one of the earliest spanish churches built in the Philippines

Above: The Lovely Mag-Aso Falls one of Bohol's accessible waterfalls, cascades through rainforest in the southeast of the island.