If you want to sleep somewhere around the Chocolate Hills, the swimming-pool-equipped Banlasan Lodge is on the highway between the viewpoint and Carmen. Rooms are dated but affordable and there's a decent restaurant (mains P100 to P140).
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1. Chocolate Hills Main Viewpoint
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Views from this perch are indeed magnificent, surrounded by Bohol's famous chocolate hills. However it's highly commercialised, with kiosks selling…
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The friendly owners of this roadside place will explain about rice cultivation (humay) in Bohol. They have jars full of myriad rice varieties, and some…
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4. Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary
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