Let’s Visit Asia

The Philippine Tarsier is said to be the world’s smallest primate, measuring only about 4 to 5 inches in height. We’ve had the chance to see these tarsiers during our trip to Bohol, Philippines earlier this year and they were really, really tiny. For such a tiny head, though, they had such large eyes, so disproportionately large that are listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest eyes on any mammal.
The tarsiers we saw were kept in semi-captivity, allowed to hunt for food at night, and made to pose for pictures for tourists during the day. Quite …read more

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I just wanted to share some more pics taken from our recent trip to Bohol, Philippines:

The first few pics show the facilities of the resort where we stayed in, the Bohol Beach Club, and the beach pictures are of the resort’s stretch of white sand beachfront. The kid is mine

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Just a shout out to let you all know I’m back from a wonderful 2 weeks in the Philippines. I haven’t had much time to write about our holiday while I was on the road– it proved to be too hard to resist the pull of the sun, sand, and glorious white beach — but just let me get my bearings back and I’ll tell all.
Meanwhile, here’s one of my favorite snapshot I took in Bohol:

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Boracay Island in the Philippines again lands on a list of world’s best beaches, this time from Yahoo Travel. Occupying the 7th spot, it is the only Asian destiantion included in the list.

Have a virtual trip to from the currently 1,177 Boracay photos in Flickr Boracay Group. If those images wake your hunger for a beach escapade, here are two resources you can use to book Boracay accommodations online:

Boracay.com
BoracayIsland.org

Photo Credit: Jeab Isma

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