Philippines-1:Cebu and Bohol

Hi, and welcome back. Today I will talk about what happened on my trip from the 21st to the 24th of November 2013.
On the 21st (a Thursday) I arrived in Manilla, the capital of the Philippines, and flew directly from there to Cebu, an island approximately in the center of the country. There I was picked up by one of my father's business partners and his family, who took care of me.
In Cebu I visited some churches, a monument dedicated to Ferdinand Magellan (the Portuguese explorer who was captain of the first round-the-world expedition, which he never finished, due to a small inconvenience-he was killed here), supposedly located in the spot where he was killed (this spot is actually in the island of Mactan, but it's the same region and it's so close to Cebu Island that it's basically the same). Next to the monument is a statue of the person who killed him, Lapu-Lapu.

A church, partially damaged by a recent earthquake in the Philippines

Magellan's Monument

Lapu-Lapu's statue

But I did many other things in Cebu besides visiting monuments, of course. I ate the traditional dessert from the Philippines (Halo-Halo), I went to a restaurant in a mountain where I could enjoy a view of the city, I slept in a house in a poor area, and I snorkelled with whale sharks.

Halo-Halo

View of the city from the mountain

While I was in Cebu, I also took a day trip to the island of Bohol. I went by boat there and someone drove me around the island, taking me to places where I saw and did different stuff: I saw the tarsiers, some very small primates with big eyes, I also saw the Chocolate Hills, which got this name because they are brown during a certain time of the year (they were unfortunately green when I was there), I ate in a floating restaurant (a restaurant on a boat), I visited a native tribe, a small zoo with a big python, a ruined church and a monument.

A tarsier

The Chocolate Hills

View from the floating restaurant

Me with members of the tribe

The python

Church ruined by the earthquake 

Me next to a sculpture representing europeans and natives drinking each others blood (to become blood brothers, not because they're vampires or something)