A DAY OUT ON BOHOL. PART 2

 18th Dec 2025

The Tarsiers sanctuary.

Antonio, my helpful driver and guide, then took me to the 'Tarsier Sanctuary'. This is in quite a large wooded area and seemed to attract a fair amount of tourists. 

I had no idea of what a tarsier is and, at the entrance, is a dummy tarsier (left) and I was told it is a form of nocturnal monkey and an endangered species. From the size of the 'dummy' I assumed it was quite a large creature.

We followed a path around the outside of a  bit of dense woodland fenced in with wire netting. Myself and several other 'tarsier watchers' were peering in and unable to see any signs of life. Eventually someone whispered (silence please!) that they had seen one. We all moved to join him and peered through the netting. 

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Left: ......and with great difficulty saw it. A tiny creature, the size of your fist, with big goggly eyes, staring myopically out from inside a bush. Rather disappointing in my opinion! I think we saw another one at some point. Not exactly the spectacular animal I had imagined!

Right: A better photo (not mine) of a tarsier. They didn't move, but then as they are 'nocturnal' perhaps they only came alive and leapt about with all the joys of spring after dark? I now can't download photos! To be rectified, I hope. Anyway, not much more to report from the tarsier sanctuary!

We then moved on to an Adventure Park (not the same as the first place on the previous blog). En-route we stopped at a place which offered 'quad-bike' tours. They looked rather fun, but would have taken too long (half the afternoon) so I just sat on one for the sake of it.

Left: The entrance to the Adventure Perk. This offered zip-wire rides. I couldn't resist trying that.

A climb up to the start point (right). There was a couple ahead of me. I was undecided as to whether to keep my i-phone in my hand to record the trip, but as I had lost the strap to secure it to my wrist I didn't want to risk dropping it, so kept it in my pocket.

Left: We were laid out in a kind of sling and fired off over a very deep valley for the half-mile trip.

Right: This was the valley below. It was about 800ft down to the Loboc river. This photo was taken from a cable-car in which I returned.

Left: Someone coming in to land.

Right: ....and someone in mid-flight. It was quite an exhilarating short ride.

Left: There was the opportunity to zip-wire back to another station or, as I chose, to take a more sedate cable car ride..to let me get some photos of the valley below. Apparently there are several other zip-wire sites on the island.

That was about it for my day out on Bohol and we drove back over the causeway to Panglao. All most enjoyable and perhaps I should have given myself more time to see some of the other sights on the island.....

I had most of the next day to do a bit of pleasant lounging around the Alona beach before getting a flight back to Manila. Plenty more to report from there.

However, I think I have a problem. For some reason 'Google' will not let me download photos at the moment. I hope that can be resolved, but until it is I will not be able to proceed with future blogs! 😱