Well after my middle of the night blog and our leaving at 500 am this morning while most of you were getting off work on the 3rd, we set off on quite and adventure for our Philippine 4th of July..... We visited a neighboring island called Bohol..... It was much more rural than here in Cebu and was just amazing...... Look at the pictures below and enjoy as I walk you through our day....
After a 2 hour ferry ride to the neighboring island then a 45 minute van ride..... we arrived at this river tour place.... We got on this boat and up the river we went..... It was so hard to believe that this was real authentic Filipino culture and not a river cruise at Disney world
Below is a picture of our boat.
As we traveled up the river we came to these falls..... not very big, but they were beautiful to look at.....
We saw lots of natives as we traveled going about their daily lives..... They were so happy and seemed so peaceful as they lived in what most of us would call horrible conditions.......
Along the side of the river there was a little guitar band....... They played for tips and sang as the tour boats traveled by
After we finished our river ride we made our way to see the world's smallest monkey known as a Tarsier (pronounced tarsheer) You'll love this video...... We are feeding him crickets.... Watch him bite the head off.......
After we finished our river ride we made our way to see the world's smallest monkey known as a Tarsier (pronounced tarsheer) You'll love this video...... We are feeding him crickets.... Watch him bite the head off.......After we finished with monkeys we drove for about another 45 minutes to a place called the chocolate hills.... These are huge mounds or mountains in a the valleys ......There are 1,246 of them scattered in this large valley... Local legend says that a giant got hi heart broken by a girl and as he cried for her his tears caused the mounds to form..... Below are 2 views from the top of a 214 flight of steps we had to hike straight up to get to.... We were all really out of breath
After we finished there we headed to this beach resort for lunch...... I will let these pics speak for themselves.........
As you can tell it was a great 4th of July!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4 comments:
Jed- I loved the video.It was so good to see you and Matt and to hear you talking and laughing. I know you probably didn't eat BBQ for the 4th but I hope that crickets weren't on your menu!! When I yelled for Ronnie and told him to come watch the video.., he came running. He was as excited to see and hear you guys as I was. I want to remind you that we are leaving on the 7th for vacation and will be back on the 21st. I'll be off-line but I will check on you guys when I get back. I will be remembering you every day in prayer. Take care and I love you guys so much.
Megie
What time does my flight leave for the resort. Talk about God's beautiful creation...it takes my breath away. Love the monkey...Lynn, you did a great job with the video...his eyes are too funny! I'm glad I heard the crunching after lunch. Glad you had a great 4th.
Good to see that you're "suffering" for Jesus:) Isn't God's great world AWEsome! Enjoy every minute!
Oh my goodness! I can't believe that ya'll are living in a place where you can see that kind of stuff! The monkey was so cute! Claire and I decided we want to visit!lol! well ya'll have a great week!!!
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