Bohol didn't quite go to plan
so this video is going to be a little bit different to what you're used to
on this day a whole bunch of things just didn't quite exactly work out and we thought it would be
better that instead of just scrapping the video entirely we wanted to show you that we actually
did go to bohol we didn't do very well we failed and going to bohol so we thought that we would
sort of tell you the story and you can laugh along with us so if you watched my kawasan falls where
we did canyoneering that video we were jumping off cliffs and do well i was jumping off cliffs
michael didn't actually do the last few jumps and you all made fun of him for that but he
actually started to feel not very well we were in bed for like a week and a half now before
you go off you all tell us that we had this c word and all that we took tests we didn't
have it it wasn't that we took multiple clear that out of the equation we were just really
sick yeah booked in with a travel guide josie's in bed saying yeah just do whatever
i think i still want to go to ball yeah i still want to go and i said all right we'll go
and you know what i'll take over the vlogging for the day yeah michael was like don't worry like
i'll do more of the talking i'll help the vlog the worst that was the worst day i think i felt we got
to the ferry port to to catch the ferry across the bow hall and we were told we needed a paper ticket
we couldn't use our electronic one so to make it worse josie had to follow me around while we tried
to figure out how to print this deal josie fell asleep immediately on the ferries and that was
for later on the video that was a very comfortable ferry ride the seats were big they were padded
it was fine so we got off the ferry in bohol and that's when i tried to see if i could
vlog or what i tried to start the vlog all right well welcome back or welcome if you're new here
my name is josie welcome to my channel we just got off this massive boat all the way
from cebu to here in bohol and it took about an hour and a half i was asleep for most of it
the first stop is our driver to come pick us up and then we're on the way to breakfast however
i am feeling quite under the weather today um so if you see a couple more you know montages or like
videos or michael more than usual that's why today was the only chance that we had to come to bohol
our schedule doesn't allow to come another day so if i'm a little bit less preppy and more not as
excited as usual that's what's going on with me today but then after that we met our driver who
was going to take us around bohol for the whole day with a fully planned itinerary so we're in the
car a lot of the day was actually just in the car so we were in the car for a while on the way to
the first place the driver asked us if we wanted to swap our itinerary a little bit and do the
river cruise first but we'll jump on our boat now that's all you can eat cruise down this
river should be some fun there's 850 pesos each 850 places each and i kind of honestly thought
it was just like one boat but there's very there's a lot of boats here there's a heap of boats and i
thought perfect that's a good chance for josie to do something quiet in the sun romantic enough for
her to get a little bit of energy for some food and just kind of be by ourselves for a little bit
so as you can tell it wasn't exactly the quiet relaxing trip that i was after when i was not
feeling my best to be honest with you and i'm sure plenty of people in the comments have seen
other vlogs or been to behold themselves and done this cruise it probably would have been so
fun if you were well yeah tell you the only seat left on this boat was right next to the speaker
as well and it was so loud and i had the biggest headache in the world i was just
sitting here like this because my head was pounding and i'm trying to comfort her while
i'm sitting there trying to eat my filipino food with a big smile on my face and she's just
like tears it wasn't fun for anybody um we did get some nice drone shots and some nice b-roll though
so the next trip after that the driver took us straight to the man-made forest this guy was an
absolute legend i was awesome so awesome guy he was like telling us all about the man-made forest
giving us facts telling us how old the trees were when they planted the trees like all this stuff
that guy was telling us that it was planted by uh girl scouts and boy scouts uh years and
years ago as part of like a reforestation to get like the native wildlife the native
species back here it's super sketchy here we might step off the side of the road everyone
just try to stand to the middle of this road to get photos but from what i can see it's still a
major highway that people drive through so pretty crazy groups of people just jumping up in the air
getting their photo josie's really lost her voice so try my best guys i'm sorry yeah i know you love
how bubbly she is and i'm nowhere near as bubbly as josie but hopefully you guys can still enjoy
at the audience but in this man-made forest i can't get over how good it looks i'll give
you guys a bit of a i think i think he said that they planted all the seeds in the 80s
in the 80s and now it's nine uh 20 22. that's 40 years ago 47 years 40 years ago
and the trees have like grown up and like bowed over as well it's starting to rain already so
i don't know what we're gonna do now but i think we still have the tarzias which is the
little monkeys and the chocolate hills to go but it's um signed to rain so then we should get
a move on i know we can't stay here much longer maybe and that's when part two of the day started
going wrong for us yeah you probably guessed it it started to rain really really heavily
so that's when we were like okay it's gonna probably just
uh like rain for a little bit maybe the next five ten minutes and then we'll be fine yeah
so we kind of we kind of chilled out in like a little cafeteria area and had a drinkage
and thought okay in philippines does this all the time it rains for like five minutes
and then we waited and we waited and we waited and it didn't stop raining
there was a small break in the rain where it went from like a hundred percent monsoon
to about 99 percent monsoon so we thought we'd go out and have a look at the tarzias
they are nocturnal he's so tiny he's so small it's raining and you have to be really quiet
which works for me right now but i think they were saying they can be anywhere from 60 to 180 grams
which is and he's just chilling in the trees so cute there's one right here and he looks really
cute he's like probably the closest one to us but i feel kind of bad like they're nocturnal they're
meant to be sleeping i think there's only four they said they look a lot bigger in the photos
i will say they look they're a lot smaller in real life i think as we're leaving potassius it stops
raining because we saw that so we're so happy we're like we're gonna get to the chocolate hills
it's gonna be clear we'll get the drone up in the air oh yes we were like oh it's going to look so
nice with the drone we'll save the vlog we saved the vlog everything's going wrong up until now
yeah but we've saved them these guys we can give the viewers eight to ten minutes of just like
drone oh it was going to be so good good news we're getting a little we're getting a little
bit of blue sky which is good news hopefully enough front next destination which is the
chocolate hills so stick around for that they're not very chocolatey this time of year but i'm
sure they'll be pretty wet um what i'm noticing about this place is it's not just obviously the
tasties is what brings you in here but there's so many other animals too there's like turkeys
uh rabbits you have um a butterfly sanctuary there's turtles all sorts of things i hope they're
looked after ethically i have no idea if they are or not it seems okay then after we left the
tarzias dropped off our driver said i'll be back in half an hour to this spot i can't park here the
moment our driver did the loop and left it started pouring down with rain again pouring down rain
the travel doesn't always go to plan i know we're here in wet season and we were prepared to have
days like this but when they happen it's like it's a bit disappointing because this is something that
we've both wanted to see for quite a long time uh ever since discovering they existed it's so
awesome it's just it sucks to be standing here with umbrellas getting knocked around in the in
the wind and the rain the reason they're called chocolate hills is because in the summer which is
not right now if you can't tell it actually the the it's all limestone so there's not a lot of
like vegetation going up to the grass that comes out of the top of these hills uh so therefore
the the actual grass on the top it burns and it turns brown it looks like chocolate hills
uh that's why it looks that way our guide told us that thousands of years ago this was or millions
of years ago this was all under water that's why these are limestone hills with little uh bits
of grass coming off them which is pretty cool all right we're gonna try and get inside a little bit
so everybody in the area just scuttles into this little house that had nothing in it it was like
an information booth that just was empty there was nothing inside there at all not even a cafe
nothing so you can climb up the top there but obviously we're probably not going to because
we don't want to get wet everyone was coming down there was this big hill in front of it
and it was so windy people were like trying to run down this hill and it just were going inside out
we didn't even get to walk up the hill because it was so wet so basically we paid 50 pesos
to stand in this information part while we got poured with rain and we got drenched it's really
bad you basically need like a full poncho and a rain jacket right now i don't know if you can
see it on the camera but it's bucketing down this is actually the worst rain that i've seen
so far in the philippines so the rain looks a lot worse in person than on camera kind
of honestly a little bit disappointed i'm a little bit upset but yeah you can't help it
but it's just the one thing that we saved to last because we wanted to do the most i guess
but look to be honest with you even back at the first viewing platform that we were at i can
see it from where i am and there's no visibility even to the mountains they're like shadows yeah
fog now they're like shadows all the rains like wash the fog or something my advice is
definitely visit for hole and definitely visit the chocolate mountains just do it in the in
summer don't do it don't do it in the rainy season we actually were supposed to come yesterday but
um you know i didn't feel good and things were happening um and he said that it didn't rain
yesterday it's a beautiful perfect day yesterday so for some reason we weren't supposed to see
this that's the way travel goes sometimes so the rain stopped well we didn't stop the rain cleared
up a tiny bit but it's still pretty pouring with rain this is sort of the most we'll get
it's pretty cool though right weird a little bit rather than the full white fog we saw but it's all
right things happen sorry no we couldn't show you what it looked like all sunny but all right well
that's our time at the chocolate hills let's keep going that was the end of the day we had about an
hour and a half i think drive from the chocolate hills to the port in which we both slept the
entire time and our poor driver snoring we're both soaring we get there there's no food anywhere yeah
the other port in cebu had so many food options so neither of us eaten anything we had to wait josie
had eaten five bits of watermelon in the morning that was it that's it we're starving i went for
a big long walk back while josie just kind of hung out in the in the port area okay so we had
an hour and a half ish drive from the chocolate hills to the port here to get the boat on the way
back so it's quite late in the afternoon now it's almost 5 p.m we got the boat at 7 00 a.m
i think so it's been a very long day i had like a bit of cash and wanted to buy some snacks so
i kind of spread it out amongst a few little shops and and spent some money there and then
we caught the boat home which when you compare it to the first one it was not that great it was
not crazy it was really warm really crowded the scene yeah they turned the aircon off the seats
were woven rather than like like plush they were it wasn't very comfortable it was really small
the seats were tiny lucky we had a two-seater but there were parts we had like four or five
people in a row yeah but about two hours now we'll have some snacks we'll try and watch something on
netflix if the internet works and we'll probably get by somebody get back a little bit dark so
he might not see you again now and then when we got back to port to cebu i was still sick i was
flat from the day i had absolutely nothing left in me so i didn't even finish the vlog i think i just
extended our stay in that same hotel in cebu for like another four nights and we just slept it off
we didn't do anything we didn't film anything we definitely missed a lot of places that we
had planned to go to and that we wanted to go to i hope you can appreciate that i know this isn't my
normal style of video but this is travel this is what happened to us even though it's not perfect
this is the way things happen sometimes and this is me being real and showing you
that it's not always sunshine and roses and and i still want to share those things with
you rather than everything being perfect all the time it's part of travel and if to make
content and show you guys what travel really is is what josie does best oh thanks yeah it's okay
it wouldn't feel right if i didn't share with you that i actually did go there so make sure you do
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