The little guys with big eyes, butterflies, ziplines, and Cris.

Cris, tricycle, me. 'nuf said.

Okay, I previously mentioned that I was going to be jumping all over the place. And I am doing a really good job keeping my word. But right now I am going to try to go in order for a little bit starting with Bohol. Hannah and I flew into Tagbiliaran airport, a teensy tiny airport. Our plane actually did a 180 degree turn at the end of the runway to bring us to the airport, a two building room. Cool. Outside the airport we met Cris, a wonderfully crazy tricycle driver who became the inspiration for many of our running jokes. Cris gave us a super sweet deal and drove us around the whole entire island the following day for a very cheap price– and he entertained us. Actually, I think maybe we entertained him even more. He told us, and I quote, "I have met many people from all over the world, but you, you are the most unique." He told us this after overhearing Hannah's explanation on monarch butterfly's migration patterns. Cris loved us. And he made sure that he documented everything we did– I'm sure this is so he could show it to the next lucky tourist who happens to catch a ride in his bright yellow tricycle (at one point a different tour guide was trying to convince us to go on a cave tour with him and he whipped out his camera and showed us pictures of tourists and said, "see look a real tourist! From Canada!" Then he also told us he had a flashlight, like that would convince us. We opted out of that tour).

So Friday the 16th we rode around with Cris all day. Our first stop was at the tarsier sanctuary.

This is a tarsier:

I know, so cute right! Tarsiers are only 11 to 15 centimeters long and weigh a mere 130 grams, give or take a little of course. What is super cool about tarsiers are their long tails, which are 20 plus centimeters long– almost twice the length of the body! But of course, my favorite thing about the tarsiers are their HUGE eyes. Tarsiers eyes are fixed in their skull, meaning they can't move them. To compensate for this biological feature they can swivel their head 180 degrees. They are nocturnal so during the day they actually can't see much. They also have super sensitive hearing so we had to be very quiet while walking around the tarsier reservation place. Hannah did a good job using her inside voice.

 

EVIL tarsier

We continued our whirlwind tour of Bohol making stops at a butterfly garden, the Chocolate Hills, a cool bamboo bridge, the Loboc River which we floated down while eating a (unfortunately) sub par lunch, and we went ziplining. It was all so much fun! Cris wanted to bring us to see a python snake, but Hannah and I were both beat by the end of the day and decided to go back to our hotel and rest because the next day we were flying to Palawan!

Hannah superman ziplines