Bohol Countryside Day Tour with Loboc River Cruise from Cebu

Rates and Package Inclusions

Sample Itinerary:

• 04:30am – Pick up from the Hotel
• 06:00am – Depart Cebu Port
• 08:00am – Arrival Tagbilaran Wharf / Start with the Tour
• 11:30am – Loboc River Cruise w/ lunch on board
• 12:30pm – Continue with the tour
• 04:00pm – Back to Tagbilaran port to Check in
• 04:20pm – Depart Tagbilaran port going back to Cebu
• 06:20pm – Estimated time of Arrival in Cebu Port
• 07:00pm – Estimated time of arrival in the Hotel

Note: This is just an estimated time and might be changed on the actual tour date depending on the waiting time of each destination. Pick up time will also change during peak season. Time going back to Cebu will also depend on the availability of the ferry tickets.

What to Expect

You will be picked up from your hotel lobby in Cebu by our driver and you will be taken directly to the port where you will take the ferry to Tagbilaran Bohol. The pick up time will be advised to you through email or text depending on the time of the ticket. Normally, the pick up time is 4:30 o’clock in the morning and you will take the 6AM ferry to Bohol. The ferry company required all passengers to check-in at least 1 hour before the departure time. The driver will give you your ferry tickets (including the ticket going back to Cebu) which is already included in the package.

Once you are in Bohol, our driver in Bohol will meet you at the port exit with signage. If you cannot see him, you can contact him and meet him wherever you are in the port.

You will then be taken to different tourists sites in Bohol including the Loboc river cruise where you will be having your lunch.

DESTINATIONS:

• Blood Compact Shrine
• Baclayon Church (add-on of P150/person to enter the Museum)
• Bohol Biggest Python
• Loboc River Cruise
• Tarsier Viewing
• St. Peter’s Ruins Church
• Batuan Shiphaus (P50 entrance fee not included, but can take pictures outside for FREE)
• Billar Mahogany Man Made Forest
• The Butterfly Garden
• Chocolate Hills
• Aproniana Gift Shop (if time permits)

After the tour, you will then be taken back to Tagbilaran port and you will take the ferry going back to Cebu on the specified time in the ticket. If you rebooked to another time, please advice your driver in Bohol so he can relay it to the driver in Cebu who will be waiting for you in Cebu port to take you back to the hotel.

Here are some of the destinations for your Bohol Day Tour from Cebu and their brief descriptions.

• Blood Compact Shrine – It is is a landmark of the first international treaty of friendship between Spaniards and Filipinos.

Blood Compact Shrine

• Baclayon Church Museum – It is considered as one of the best preserved Jesuit-built churches in the region and one of the oldest stone churches in the Philippines. (Closed every Tuesday)
• Bohol Biggest Python – It is the Philippines’ largest captive reticulated python.
• Loboc River Cruise – It is one of the widely popular tourist attractions in Bohol with its cruise or the floating restaurant that starts from the Loboc town until it reaches the Busay Falls.

Loboc River Cruising

• Tarsier Viewing – Bohol Tarsiers (Tarsius Syrichta) measures 4 to 5 inches and is considered as the world’s smallest primate.

• St. Peter’s Ruins Church – It is a historic church that contains a lot of interesting treasures such as decorative stone carvings and friezes on the exterior walls, a relief of St. Ignatius in polychrome stucco intriguingly hidden behind the main altar, seven ancient retablos from both the Jesuit and Recollect periods, and etc.
• Batuan Shiphaus (P50 entrance fee not included, but can take pictures outside for FREE) – It is uniquely shaped like a shipping vessel and this house is owned by Capt. Gaudencio Dumapias, a native of Batuan who became a successful mariner.

Batuan Shiphaus in Bohol

• Billar Mahogany Man Made Forest – It is a man-made mahogany forest stretching in a two-kilometer stretch of densely planted Mahogany trees located in the border of Loboc and Bilar towns.

Man Made Forest in Bohol

• The Butterfly Garden – It is is owned by Simply Butterflies Conservation Center,  Bohol’s first butterfly livelihood breeding program aiming to protect the butterfly population through breeding and releasing and plant research.
• Chocolate Hills – These are more than 1,268 cone-shaped hills – a very strange geological formation that has baffled a lot of geologists. The hills are spread over an area of 50 square kilometers or more and vary in size from 30 meters to 120 meters in height.

Chocolate Hills in Bohol

•  Aproniana Gift Shop – It is considered as “Bohol’s ultimate souvenir destination” which sells almost anything you want so you can remember the memories you spent in Bohol.