As a post anniversary gala and to let Papa have his first airplane ride, I planned for a local trip and the seat sale offered a trip to Bohol so off we went! :)
I'm obsessive compulsive, so a month before the actual trip, everything was already taken care of - the place where we would stay and the tour packages. It was just supposed to be a 3 day Bohol tour but 2 weeks prior to the trip, Cebu Pacific emailed and called me saying that the flight back to Manila is cancelled and we needed to pick another one. Having learned from officemates that Cebu is just a 2 hour ship ride from Bohol, I took this opportunity and booked the going home flight a day after the original one and in Mactan Airport. :) This is Papa's first, so he was pretty thrilled about the trip. The flight is at 8:20 am and despite my parents wanting to be in the airport 2 hours before the schedule, we arrived at 7:00, thanks to me being "kilos pagong". :p
Kuya Cito, our driver/tour guide was already waiting for us in the terminal. He worked for Cherry's Home Too were we stayed. We're pretty practical and picked a budget friendly inn without sacrificing comfort. My thinking was, why choose an expensive hotel when you will be out most of the time?
First stop was the Baclayon Church, which I always mispronounce as BACLA-yon. Apparently it's BAC-layon according to hubby hehe.
According to the sign, it is the oldest coral stone church in that region. Hubby has this thing about old structure so needless to say, he was busy taking pictures while being awed of how beautiful the church is. He even wanted to go to the museum but the parents were not that into it, so we didn't.
The altar looked like the one in Sts. Peter and Paul where we got married. The church, since it was old, had a great number of cracks in its paint-faded walls. At the back, there was what seems to be a bamboo organ though I'm not sure. Outside the church was a figure of Padre Pio which I didn't notice had Hubby not pointed it out.
*copying the picture from Hubby's blog.
Next stop: Xzootic Animal Park and Loboc River
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