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the beautiful island of Panglao here in the Philippines this island felt like home right
away and it had us wondering if we should have booked a longer stay here in this video we've
settled into our life here in the Philippines and we thought it was time to escape the beaches and
go on a road trip to see more of the whole I'm Anna and this is Trevor in this series we're back
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good morning everybody and welcome back to another video here in the beautiful Philippines we're
still so stoked to be back in this country and now we're settling in today we are taking you on
a road trip it's going to be a lot of fun right now we're in our apartment just getting the day
going uh Anna's back there doing some work well actually she's checking over the video this will
make sense in a second all right what's happening over here I'm just double checking the video
so basically for those that don't know Trevor does all the editing but then after that's done
we have a video coming out I need to check it over make sure there's no errors I didn't miss
anything it's usually fine the majority of the time but it's good just to have a second pair of
eyes just to check things over make sure you're not putting anything weird out there into the
world I don't know if Trevor just said this maybe I'm being repetitive but we are actually in behold
we're still there still here uh we were here in the last video as well we showed you around the
apartment so you've already seen the tour if you haven't done that go back and watch it but we're
in tanglao today we're probably gonna go off of Panglao and explore more more of the main part of
Bohol um but by the way I can't remember also all the things I don't know did we talk about this in
other videos I don't think we did but I got new glasses do you like them I'm still kind of on the
fence about them I think I like them but when I look in the mirror I'm still like who are who is
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comment but yeah it's great to be finely settled in here we're really really enjoying day-to-day
life here in the Philippines and now I'm not gonna say we're over the beach but we're kind
of finally ready to go see what else the island here has to offer that's not a beach well here's
our ride for the day it's nice and nice and small at least it has been raining though huh it has
hopefully got it over with so we can have a nice day although there are some pretty dark clouds out
there thankfully we're not going to the beach so I still don't want to downpour but it's not a beach
day it's also our first time ever driving in Asia southeast Asia for that matter so wish us luck
thank you
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so some of you guys might be wondering why we didn't rent a scooter I know to
a lot of people it just like seeing smaller seems easier to get around
but for us I'm we're just not comfortable with it we've talked about this in other videos I feel
like every time we kind of get like are not our hopes that but we start thinking about doing it
someone inevitably wipes out in front of us and they're like nope never mind we've seen so many
people get an accidents on scooters so many people it's an unbelievable amount of people
we've seen get in accidents on scooters most of them are tourists I bet half of them are drunk
so we're just we're just gonna play it safe and go with the Karu but driving here so far well it
is very different than where we're from in uh in Canada the biggest thing is people will just pass
you uh and just beep at you there's lots of horns happening and they're just letting you know that
they're gonna gonna go by but it's certainly not the way that you know we're used to uh driving
you have to watch out for dogs dogs chickens so the whole the whole Barnyard really so we're on
our way to a place called The Chocolate Hill so the hall is really really known for this spot it
is a tourist attraction I'm very curious to see it in person it's like the name Chocolate Hills
it's about an hour and a half or an hour and 45 minutes uh driving from where we're at right now
to our destination and once we get there I think there's some other things we're going to try to
do as well so yeah we're excited to show you guys this place before we get any further in the video
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creators like us well it was a long drive but I think it might be worth it look at the view huh
I know it's pretty cool we're not even at the top right now you kind of draw like come to the top
of a hill where there's all sorts of buildings you get a bit of a view but then there's an even
bigger walk that we'll eventually do so if you Google the whole this is likely the first thing
you're going to find these Chocolate Hills it's basically like a series of rolling mini mountains
let's call them mini mountains spread out over an enormous landscape the whole way we were driving
here well at least the last half we could start to see them here and there but now now they're kind
of everywhere around us so I read there's I think between 250 and 300 steps to get to the top of the
Viewpoint my legs actually already hurt just from looking at that yeah it's gonna be uh it's gonna
be a tough one yeah yes it is windy up here but it's a nice breeze we need that right now we're
almost at the top a little further to go yeah there's a little mini platform before you get
to the top oh I always forget how out of shape I am until I until I stairs I'm like oh yeah well
let me exercise more it was like 250 of them but yeah fair enough worth it for the incredible views
here though I think now you can see that this is the most beautiful view here in Chocolate
Hills now a couple of things here Logistics let's talk Logistics so our car today you're probably
wondering it was 2500 pesos to rent that for the day that's about 50 Canadian dollars seems
a little expensive to me maybe we could have got it for cheaper but that was the cost that's
the reality when you get here it is 100 pesos per person so about two dollars fifty cents Canadian
two dollars U.S to get into this park and we had to park about five minutes away and then you get
this free shuttle to come up here now here's here's the thing I just want to be honest about
there's actually besides the incredible view which is awesome there's not much else to do I I thought
we'd be able to go to a few different viewpoints but you can so just know that before you come here
if you're coming like us like two hours just know that you're just going to come up to right where
we are now and that's it so take that as it is I did actually watch a couple of other Vlogs before
we came here it seems to be the consensus that if you're already in the area it's worth coming
to but it's not like your mind's not going to be blown it is really really interesting though I'm
going to say that there's just not a whole lot up here so I probably go with them like it's maybe
not worth the two hour drive although we are going to do a couple other things today but if you're in
the area it's really cool all right we are now at our next stop and we're coming over to see these
cute little guys not just on a card or a picture of them they're back here in the jungle somewhere
they're called tarsi years now I don't know if that's how you pronounce it but it looks like
it's pronounced that way whenever when I read it anyway so we'll find out as we get in also I think
you have to be a little bit quiet when you're in there so I don't know how loud we can talk or what
we can say but we will do our best all right I did just ask somebody and the way you say it is
tarsier tar Shear now the thing about these little guys is they are very little it's going to be hard
to spot them they're super super small so let's hope I can even find them do you see any yet not
yet all right we just spotted our first little guy yeah thankfully there's people here to point
them out to you because they're so tiny this one was sleeping underneath a leaf so it almost looks
like looked like a shadow she was pointing to it I was like where is it they are small enough
to fit in the palm of your hands I'd say they're probably that big people um I've heard them call
them it's one of the smallest monkey that exists but they're not actually monkeys they look it up
they are primates but they're not monkeys I just can't get over how little and how cute
they are it's unfortunate that they're all asleep obviously I mean they're nocturnal so they sleep
during the day but you saw in the picture they have those huge eyes it would be great to see
that but they're cute enough in person it's super hot in the woods here as well I should say in the
jungle but it's a lot of fun trying to spot these little guys it's almost like playing uh where's
Waldo they're they're definitely hiding around I do recommend coming here but note that there is
a lot of mosquitoes around you are in the jungle so of course as you're leaving you get filtered
in through the gift shop there's some very cute things in here I know thing look at all the uh
yeah you've got the I love the whole so yeah these are they're clearly playing up the uh the little
guys here so it's pretty neat but we got another place to go yeah let's move on all right we're uh
still on our journey here a little further down look at this right by a river yeah we drove I
guess it was another 25-ish minutes came along it was a beautiful beautiful drive along the river
it's a very very green emerald color I'm hoping to get some food but first we're taking a little look
at this gorgeous River look how pretty this is you guys look at the color look at the color of this
River and this back here taking what are you doing Instagram taking some photos by the way you should
be following us on Instagram we do occasionally post on our feed but we also do a lot of stories
and stuff yeah this is neat it's clearly part of one of the complexes here look at the ground
it's like made of uh like bamboo and you got the surfboards back there it's funny I'm getting wet
right now rained earlier but clearly this must be shaded all day so it just drips but what a
cool what a cool little spot this is not something I'd expect to find in the Philippines again we've
been at beaches a lot so far so this is this has been a lot of fun so the place we're at
is called food and fables it's right on the river really nice view they seem to have a nice balance
of like some local dish some Western dishes as well but while we're waiting for our food
to come we've got a San Miguel light very very hot day so it's going to be nice and refreshing
one thing we wanted to mention was to thank you guys for all of your amazing recommendations and
our very first uh video here in the Philippines back in the Philippines in Cebu we asked for your
recommendations and oh my goodness you guys came through you left us comments you sent us emails
you sent us DMS on Instagram and Facebook with some people like literally wrote like
a novel of recommendations we want to thank you guys obviously we're not going to be able to do
everything we're only here for 30 days and we're trying to take things slow as you guys know not
go too crazy and do everything and there's so much to do here in the Philippines I'm pretty sure you
could live your entire life in this country and never run out of things we did end up getting some
food look at these little guys they look like red balls or something like that but it's actually a
Falafel like covered in uh little sesame seeds and I think this is some tahini sauce should we try it
you want to go out oh yeah look at the inside of that we haven't eaten much today I'm just going to
do the trick but we also have some Filipino food coming so here is the main attraction
today we went for a soup it's called chicken quinoalayan kin along not sure if I'm saying
that correctly it smells amazing I wish you guys could smell this so it does have chicken
in there there is some coconut milk lemongrass Ginger and some green papaya doesn't that sound
delicious it sounds delicious it must be hot because there's lots of steam coming
off there but it looks good okay I'm gonna try it I think I've got a good bite here [Music]
yeah that's really really good it's a little bit salty but I also love love love the ginger in
there gives it a little bit of a kick in the whole lot of flavor the coconut milk is really subtle
let's say everything else is really subtle the most the biggest taste that I get is the ginger
a little bit of lemongrass is really good I like that it's served with rice so I'm just kind of
like you know the proper way to eat it but I'm just kind of like sticking it in there with all
that yummy yummy broth it's one of our favorite things about settling in here in the Philippines
is we've been trying all these different Filipino dishes I know we haven't put all of them on camera
but we have put some but this is a new one and we really really dig it we're getting really used
to this Filipino food now it's loud behind me someone's someone's selling something it always
happens when we turn the camera on by the way but I think the moral of the story is we're just now
that we're like a few weeks into our month-long stay like we've kind of settled in we're enjoying
the Comforts of the Filipino food and just the landscape and the setting and the Filipino people
so it's been a lot of fun I'm so glad we rented the car today and we we did this journey whole
different side of the Philippines we have never seen before so so amazing here if you got this
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running out of days to be honest so five flies time flies when you're having fun
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