Bohol, Philippines>, Nov 29, 2005
I arrived in Tagbilarin and took a taxi to the Alona White Sand Beach resort. The driver was trying to see if I was in the market for buying/investing in some land. He said that they were building an airport on the island and it was going to be the next Boracay. I had no interest in investing as my purpose was to go diving.
The resort was quite empty with only a few guests. I met a guy from Sweden who was in Bohol visiting a filipina he met online about a year ago. It was their first encounter and she seems to be looking for husband number 2. Apparently, husband number 1 (a german) was killed while she was in the car with him - shot to death in front of her and she didn’t get harmed at all. The suspect is now in jail and will not talk. Not even 1 year after her husband’s mysterious death, she was already with another suitor.
Interesting people….but tomorrow I am going diving and got a camera to take underwater photos. Since this is my first dive in a while I decided to just dive in the shallow area of the reef (less than 20 meters). Also, this will make for better photos since most of the reef life is above 20 meters.
Visiting the Chocolate Hills and other locations
After diving, my driver asked me if I’d like to see more of Bohol. I agreed to have him take me to the Chocolate hills and other attractions for a fixed fee. While driving me off Panglao Island, he showed me a piece of land where they were developing an airport to make Panglao like Boracay Island. He wanted to see if I would invest in that land so as to make a profit when the value of the land went up. Of course I declined the offer and went on about the other attractions in the area.
The Chocolate Hills are somewhat of an oddity as there are more than 1200 hills all over the country side in Bohol. The formation of these round hills was due to coral forming underground and pushing up the soil.