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Remember this photo from my previous post about our last trip to Bohol? It is one of the things that made me amazed of human creativity and ingenuity. This is a buy product of a sustainable architectural idea. Turning what is supposed to be a waste into a design close to home and mother nature. From afar it looks like gravels stick unto walls of cement, but taking a closer look you will discover that it isn't a gravel or any feature found on your ordinary hardware and construction material store. These are re-purposed coco-shells tuck into the walls to make a unique and amazing finish, that will surely capture your imagination on what other things you can find in natures womb to re-purpose and utilize for the benefit of the community without harming the environment.

My top one spot during this trip was the Buzz Cafe, not only it was my first time to be in a bee farm but it was a bowl of new experience and learning. Buzz Cafe is a compact place of bee products production and other local organic products. The traditional weaving with traditional materials. An amazing building materials from nature. I find this idea unique and interesting and I decided to make a separate post on this one. The ambiance with the organic food.  There is so much to explore with Bohol, but unfortunately this was our last day. For every travels and trip we make to different places around us, we uncover many things. We may live the places we've been, but the experiences and the memories we shared with the people we have in our lives will be forever in us.

Having inside the Hinagdanan cave was my first time experience at this magnitude, I mean I have been in some caves but this one is by far the largest cave I've been. Looking at those cave features called  stalactites and stalagmites, made me remember the good old school days during elementary. Something so amazing for me during those younger years and even to this day. Visiting the museum of shells gave me an idea on developing my own museum at home, of different subject of course. We also had a chance to gate crash a wedding ceremony when we visited this old church to see for ourselves an old style of interior design, paintings on the ceiling. To be continued....

It was almost midday by the time we finished at the tarsier sanctuary, so we head on to our next destination for lunch. The floating resto. Though the food was not that enticing for the taste buds, it was good enough to calm hunger. But the experience during this hour of eating on a floating table and kitchen was amazing and refreshing. The floating lunch lasted for about an hour with a few attractions on your way  to the mini falls, the dancing and singing of the locals with the famous tinikling. We also visited one of the old church that day, the Baclayon Church. Since the church was under renovation due to the recent earthquake, we were not able to see the inside of this old church. The Blood Compact was one of Bohol Historical Rites during the Colonial Era. It was the time when the Spaniards and Portuguese where battling for expansion of colonies. And it is one of the highlights in the history of the Philippines as a Nation.

On our way to the next spot we spend a few minutes in a man made forest to enjoy fresh air and fresh green views of local hard wood forest. It was said that this man made forest was developed by the Boy Scout of the Philippines during the early days of Bohol as a province. There was only a handful of seedlings but after a few generation of care and protection, the trees gave birth to thousands of more life sustaining trees for the locals and the Philippines as a whole. A glance of this relaxing creation would last a lifetime reminder that we should protect our only home - EARTH.  Next in the list of the tour was the endangered specie of Tarsier, a rat like monkey with eyes of owl and bat like ears with hands and feet of a frog. That sounds like a genetic engineering to me, a spliced genetic codes to form a creature with five distinct characteristics. Though look cute and cuddly, this little guys are sensitive to stress. They are