February 1- 3, 2008, the much awaited yearly field trips of the SLU-LES faculty and staff … destination : Cebu-Bohol. January 31 at 9:30 pm we left Baguio by bus going to NAIA. At 4:30 am we left Manila and headed to Cebu. The Queen City of the Philippines, Cebu welcomed us with a warm sunny morning. It was hot but it didn’t bother us for everybody was excited to set foot in Cebu. We visited historical places like the Heritage Monument, the Casa Gorordo, Fort San Pedro, Lapu-Lapu Shrine, St. Louis School of Mandaue, SLU sister school , we also went to the Taoist Temple, similar with our Taoist Temple found in La Trinidad. And of course their market for their famous DANGIT...hmmm really delicious for breakfast and the dried mango. Together with my co-staff we went to Casino Filipino, Waterfront Hotel. Too bad, two of my co-staff and me weren’t able to go in Casino Filipino to have a look because “SLIPPERS ARE NOT ALLOWED INSIDE”, you’re right slippers are not allowed inside the Casino, our slippers are beautiful, but too bad, it didn’t pass the guards. What was sad is that, foreigners in ordinary slippers are allowed to go in, well foreigners bring in money and Filipinos don’t…hahaha. But even if were not able to enter the casino, we toured the hotel and saw very young Filipinas aged 16-20 years of age as “___” Before going back to Richmond Hotel to have a good night sleep to prepare for another journey the next day, to Bohol, we thought of eating halo-halo sa Waterfront Hotel and then we had a hot cup of coffee. The following day we boarded the Ocean Jet going to Bohol. The hot sunny afternoon welcomed us at Tagbilaran Port. Bohol is a beautiful place, “probinsyang probinsya pa rin ang dating”. We had our lunch at Loboc River, a floating restaurant , a boholannian entertained us with his guitar singing love songs while we’re eating, parang paris ang style. Loboc River was so beautiful especially when you reach the end point. On our way to Chocolate Hills, we passed by the Man-Made Forest of Bohol, there I saw a giant millipede, really big, as healthy as my thumb, as black as my hair and 6 inches in length (just an estimate). Then we proceeded to Chocolate Hills, it wasn’t color brown then its still green, for it wasn’t summer yet, but it was beautiful, you have to climb 214 steps if I remember it right to reach the top of the hills to take a look at the other hills. Then we went to see the tarsiers, really small animals and so cutie, as big as my palm…and of course we would not leave Bohol without buying anything….February 3, our long journey to Baguio. And yes, I won a Cebu Pacific Wallet during the trip. It was a nice and beautiful experience being part of the group going to places I’ve never been before … all I could say was “WOW! I enjoyed the trip!” and I’m looking forward for more trips like this, going south again and maybe going somewhere outside the country….
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