Environmental Tour

That was their tour actually. I’m done taking the subject a year ago but with a different class (we had a tour also). Now, it’s my classmates’ time to have a tour and I just can’t let myself be out of the picture. That was Aug. 28, Thursday. About 7:00 a.m. in the morning, we departed the city and head to our destinations. We planned of having a visit with the different places that widely deals with the environment.





First stop was in a water spring in Loboc, Bohol. We hiked seemingly 1 and half kilometers from the central part of Loboc . That far isn’t a joke! So I guess I could have an excuse if I forgot what was the place was called =(. That spring was used as the residents’ source of water for the barrios surrounding the area.





From the water spring, we headed to Sevilla. There’s a hanging bridge there! Mostly of us really wonder how it feels like crossing a bridge that doesn’t have a foundation beneath it, sagging, I mean. So we stopped and had a try.
Few miles ahead, there’s the hydropower plant. We weren’t graced for a discussion about how it does due to some inevitable matters. Anyway, our cameras were there so, somehow it’s fine.








After the Sevilla trip, our bus turned its wheel to Carmen. Along the way, we passed the manmade forest in the boundaries of Loboc and Bilar. That said forest is about a kilometer wide developed by the natives of that place. It’s environment! So we took a short stop.








After some breathe of fresh air from the totally relaxing forest, (and a lot of picture takings) we jumped back to the bus to head to the mid part of Bohol. I am talking about Carmen. For those who don’t know, it is where the now world famous, Chocolate Hills lay it’s beauty. From the forest, we drove some kilometers, passing Bilar and Batuan towns to be there.







Chocolate Hills is really something for the Boholanos to be proud of. Being there, you will really feel you are standing in a very high place watching how beautiful God’s creations are.


We took our lunch and after that went to Pilar Dam. The dam looked somewhat like a lake in the feet of the mountains. Waters gathered there were just rain waters, so it wasn’t that high when we got there. Again, our cameras play their role.





And now the final stop. The Paradise Hills Resort in Sierra Bullones is the highlight in our tour. Don’t ask me how far it is, I’m afraid I can’t answer it without sarcasm. It’s unimaginably far. A lot of curve and rough roads, but it’s really worth the effort. It really made me believe that the road to heaven isn’t smooth.
When we got there, we were welcomed by the huge accommodation hall, pools and the friendly look of the place. It somehow looks like a river in the middle of the forest. What surrounds you were tall mountains full of green trees that made us forget we were swimming in a pool and not in a virgin river.



That covers our tour. It took us the whole day. It took every energy in my body as well. But I enjoyed, I guess not just me, everyone did. And we really did a worthy trip.