My Bohol and Cebu Experience

I have been searching early this year for a cheap Bohol Tour package and came across Mark Maranga's site: http://www.markmaranga.com/ 

The transaction with Kuya Dodong is very smooth and recently he has been featured in Rated K. Our Itinerary is as follows:

BOHOL:

INCLUSIONS:

                > 1 Standrd air-con room,shower.-sixta share

> Daily breakfast

> transfers IN/OUT

> Air con transport for Day Tours

> Motorized banca for sea tour

> Entrance Fees
> Buffet Lunch at Loboc River on board floating resto

> FUEL

 >TOUR DRIVER-guide

ITINERARY:

Nov30 =PANGLAO/DAUIS TOUR - 4 Hours START  upon arrival
> bohol bee farm
> Hinagdanan cave
> Dauis church
> Bayoyoy d' dwarfman

> Shell museum

Dec1 = BOHOL COUNTRYSIDE TOUR-8-HRs..start 8am

> Blood compact site

> Baclayon   Church
> Python Snake ( the largest in captivity 250kg.)

 > Loboc River Cruise and Luncheon

 > Tarsier Watch (smallest primate)
> Manmade Forest
> Hanging Bridge
> Butterfly Sanctuary
> Chocolate Hills
> Souvenirs

Dec 2=CEBU
Package rate: Php 1,495.00/pax for minimum of 6

0845H  ETA Cebu pier, meet and greet

1430H  Drop off pier 1
1535H  ETD for Bohol
Proceed to Cebu Twin City Tour with buffet lunch

Inclusions:
>Airconditioned transportation, pick-up from/drop-off pier 1 Cebu, Licensed Tour Guide, >Entrance fees. 

>Sites of interest:

 >Fort San Pedro,

>Magellan's Cross,

>Basilica Minore del Sto Nino,

>Casa Gorordo,

>Taoist Temple,

>Mactan Shrine,

>Guitar Factory,

>Souvenir Shopping,

shopping at Ayala Center Cebu or SM City Cebu (if time permits),

Lunch with 1 round of softdrinks or mineral water


Dec 3 = Check-out to airport-  pk-up time for all @ 10am
 

Our Day 2 should have been  Dolphin Watching @ Alona, Panglao but my mom is kinda scared of deep waters so I have acquired a day Cebu Twin City tour, which covers another payment and booking. Kuya Dodong referred us to Mr. Tony Araneta from Green Earth Travel and Tours. 

Here are their contact numbers:

Kuya Dodong: 09292742015

Sir Tony: 09189028738 

We really enjoyed our tour especially in Bohol. Our tour guide and driver, Kuya Jude, is super kind. He let's us take our time but reminds us that we still have other destinations and souvenir stops lol because we take pictures and buy souvenir items non stop.

Kuya Dodong, as informed by Kuya Jude, never has the time to meet his clients since he's been busy with all the bookings and his growing business. I made him meet us. LOL. See us with him in the last picture. 

I'm gonna let the pictures now do the story telling..... 

Dinner by the beach

Alona, Panglao

 

Hinagdanan Cave

With Kuya Jude - Tour Guide and Driver

With Kuya Dodong - super lucky to meet him :)

Bulalo Recipe

My family always prepare Bulalo for Christmas and New Year. It's a must on the table, it's perfect served hot along with other dishes. I love the rich taste of beef in this recipe and I'm sharing it with you.  


Bulalo

Ingredients:
1 kilo Beef, meat
1 kilo special cut beef marrow
2 onions, cut into halves
Onion leeks, thinly sliced
salt
pepper
msg (optional)

Directions:

1. Boil beef meat and marrow till tender with lots of water.

(Option: Refrigerate overnight or less after it cools down and when the fat settles on top, scrape it off. Less cholesterol hehe. Heat it up).

2. Add salt, msg, onions, onion leeks and pepper.

3. Serve hot.

Julie and Julia

At 4pm today while I was trying to figure out what to do with the rest of the day, I switched the channel and landed on HBO. The movie was starting and I had no idea what it was. But I had exactly on the start so I said to myself, maybe this is worth watching.


The setting of the movie was in Paris. Oh I love Paris! I wish I could go there. Then the cast of characters rolled on with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. Meryl Streep was Julia Child who lived in Paris (but she lived in different places because of her husband's job) and Amy Adams was set in New York. Omg! New York. Queens, New York to be exact, above a pizzeria.

Meryl Streep and her husband, Stanley Tucci were dining at a lovely french restaurant with the waiter deboning the fish. As Meryl Streep tastes the fish, she was in such awe and told her husband that it tastes so good.

I told myself... OK this is going somewhere. This movie is about food. So I googled the title "Julie and Julia" and landed on Wikipedia. It's definitely about food! Yayy!!

The movie is about Julie Powell finding something else to do to get away with the stress of her daily job, which she and her husband figured out that it was cooking. She decided to write a blog about cooking, well, about Julia Child's french cooking. Her mission was 524 recipes in 365 days.

She had her success, she also had meltdowns which included almost losing her husband. She figured that she and Julia Child has a lot in common. Like having a secretarial job in a government agency, having a great husband that supports and loves her and finally, cooking as a getaway.

I actually share the same feeling. Like having a job that I don't wanna do for the rest of my life, and cooking as a getaway, well only I could do cooking during weekends and holidays. If I have another chance, you know, I'll go and enrol in a culinary school, get a diploma and start cooking just anywhere!

Oh! I hope I could get that chance, the chance where I could just begin again and start a new career. It's not too late. Julia Child began her passion for cooking when she was 40+. And Julie Powell began hers while she was busy doing her daily job. I will begin mine soon.. I will with the help of God. :)


Love lots,
UmbRela

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