Shots of Life

The package we availed with Dumaluan Beach Resort includes City Tour and Dolphin watching. We started our Day 2 by having breakfast at the resort. We were then escorted by a resort's staff to our van for our City tour.
Our first stop is the Blood Compact site. The view from the site is really breath taking. We just took photos then off to our next destination.
Baclayon Church was our second stop. It really feels good to visit a Catholic church that is outside Manila. This is one of the oldest church in the Philippines. Our guide told us that we can see Padre Pio's image on the church's side post and another image (which I forgot) on the next post. My sister and I were wearing a short shorts so we were asked to wrap a cloth around our waist - instant skirt. Hihi. There are also religious figures upon entrance to the church.
Our next destination was the house of the biggest python of Bohol - Prony. It was huge! Really huge! Haha, Prony is accompanied by a bird and monkey inside the cage. Even the caretaker is inside the cage. Amazing! Outside the cage was another entertainer who jokes a lot about Prony. Here's the only joke I remembered "once a month lang kumakain si Prony ng baboy, kasi baka ma high blood, puro cholesterol". Haha. :p
Here's is where you should buy your peanut kisses. :)
After all the jokes and thrills, it's already lunch time so we headed to the Loboc River for our lunch cruise. Food is just okay but nothing really special. Jerellt told me not to miss the chicken, but sadly, all the chicken was gone . Luckily, Boyps got 1. Yipee. Hihi. There are crabs, veggies, barbeque, chicken, soup, pansit and a lot more on the buffet table.

After filling our hungry stomachs, we are now ready to see our country's smallest primate, the Tarsiers. This creature is nocturnal (animals who are awake during the night) so we were lucky enough to capture tarsiers with their eyes widely opened. Hihi. We were accompanied and lectured by the animal's care taker. He said that a quick touch to a tarsier can lead them to death. Super sensitive. But a visit to this place is really priceless. It's not something a tourist can find in any other places. Yahoo - this is a dream come true. :)
Next stop is the Butterfly Farm. I really had fun here. I love taking pictures of butterflies. It's not easy to capture one so it feels to good when I get to have one like I had in Taiwan. But here, butterfly seems to be friendly and cooperative :p Every guest (or group of guests) will be escorted by the farm's in-house tour guide. He added fun to our tour. He was also our photographer.
I got so excited after hearing that our next destination is the Chocolate Hills. I finally got a chance to see one of the Philippines' best! The hills are already visible on the area where the van dropped us but we still conquered the 100+ steps just to get a better view of the hills. And it's all worth it! I'm letting the pictures speak for themselves.
Off to our last stop - the hanging bridge. This is where we bought our pasalubongs and souvenir items.
Before we go back to our hotel, we bought some chicken and rice for our dinner. Tipid mode e tsaka kelangan ng madaming extra rice. Haha.
We were back at Dumaluan at around 6 pm. It rained when we were in Chocolate Hills, so I assumed that it also rained in some parts of the city. The song is so true. There's a rainbow always after the rain. :p
It's not yet too late to see the sunset so we went to the other side of the resort. We pass through other resorts until we reached the end - not actually the end but close to it. We didn't go farther because it's getting dark.
 Going back again to our hotel.

Our day 2 was extremely tiring yet very fun. :)

We arrived in Bohol just in time for lunch. We all decided to have lunch at Dumaluan's Restaurant instead of going outside the resort. Here's what we ordered:
(it's been months since I had this vacation that's why I already forgot the prices)
 I ordered for Baked Shrimps. It was loaded with cheese. But the head is bigger that its body. Haha. This meal is not for sharing.
We also ordered Kinilaw - Boyps favorite. The fish was already cooked when it was served. Hindi yung naluto sa suka.
 This one I liked the most - Pinakbet with Bagnet.
She and her husband also bought a gallon of water for us to share. We ordered rice from the resort's restaurant and borrowed some utensils and we just had dinner inside our room. Haha.

Jerellt invited me and Boyps to join them on their 2nd honeymoon :p. But they already bought their plane tickets before she told me. No promo fare since the date they picked was a holiday so I was really hesitant but envious. Unexpectedly, Airphil offered a Seat Sale to Tagbilaran so I booked a September flight for my whole family (Holiday nga kasi so hindi talaga nag sale yung date ng lipad nina je). This is the 1st time that the whole family went out of town (aside from pampanga :p)
Je stayed in Dumaluan Beach Resort and I told her that I will wait for her review before I'll booked our accommodation. After reading her blog, looks like the room was just okay but she liked the beach much so with no doubts, I made a reservation for 7 pax.

The resort gave us 2 rooms since the room for the chosen package is good for 4 persons only (quad sharing). We just requested the staff to put all the extra mattresses in 1 room because we'll all sleep that room.
Note: They don't have a package that could board 7 people into just 1 room.

The room has 1 double bed, air conditioner, a small refrigerator, flat screen TV, toilet and bath (no bathtubs), mini bar and a wooden rack and table for clothes and bags.
The rooms are really spacious and clean. It also has a veranda where you can hang your wet clothes. But so sad that there's not much sunlight on our area. The comfort room is huge enough but I think, it will be better if they'll transfer the position of the shower head. :)

One thing I didn't like is that they responded too long on my request to put all the mattresses on the available room since they only handed us the 1st room and the other one is still being cleaned. But I guess they compensated that well enough.:p We were surprise to see these in our rooms on our second day. :)
The trees, sand and beach are scenic. The sand is so fine.I like it more when it's wet. It's awesome. haha. I think their beach is mabato (rocky). The resort's staff said that we should wear slippers or water shoes if we want to swim. Not sure though because I wasn't able to try it out :|. But the swallow area is really sandy and I loved it. :)
While waiting for the sunset, it was so nice to see a sand bar.Unfortunately, the sunset is on the other side of the beach. Hehe. So that's our goal on our second day. :p
Overall, I liked Dumaluan Beach Resort. :) Beautiful rooms, good staffs and awesome white sand beach resort truly made our stay enjoyable.

Dumaluan Beach Resort
Panglao, Bohol
http://www.dumaluanbeach.com/