British diving magazine feature Panglao Island

Diver, Britains's best-selling diving magazine, has featured Panglao as one of the holiday diving destinations in 2008 on its Holiday Special issue (January 2008).

The article, "No Rush to Surface", features its author's (Gerald Rambert) experience in diving Balicasag Island, one of the best diving sites in Bohol, if not the whole country. An underwater photographer, the author narrated his wonderful dives in the island's five main dive sites. Rambert talked about seeing different types of nudibranchs and a mindblowing variety of fish. He also described the abundance of hard and soft corals - especially his favourite soft corals; pink, green and red see-through Dendronephthya.

Although the article mainly featured the diving sites, it also mentioned other popular tourist attractions in Bohol like the Chocolate Hills and Loboc River. These attractions are just among the many that gives Bohol an edge over other Philippine diving destinations. After a break in diving, tourists are spoilt for choice to try other exciting non-diving experiences. I hope that with this feature article, more British tourists (divers and non-divers alike) will visit Bohol in the coming year.

If you want to read the whole article visit Diver's website at http://www.divernet.com/. As a subscriber, I am privileged to receive a copy before it goes on sale in shops. Reading the article made me even more homesick especially during this winter months in Britain. How I wish I was the one diving in the said article.

A Warm Welcome

I have been living abroad for more than five years now. Before this, I spent years working and living in different parts of the Philippines but never in Bohol. I left my home province after graduation from high school. Since then, I have been on a self-imposed exile for the purpose of finding or creating my own destiny. I believed then that it has to be outside of Bohol.

I never really left Bohol when I was still in the Philippines. I almost always spend my summer and Christmas holidays there. And of course, there are the occasional weekends. Bohol is the home of my childhood and teenage years, periods in life wherein I have most of my unforgettable and happy memories.

I created this blog as an attempt to reconnect with my beloved Bohol. I will reminisce on my past there, express my views on its current situation and rave about the goods things happening to it. In the last, I will particularly look out for any mention of Bohol from where I am currently living and share it here in this blog.

Daghang salamat sa injong pagduaw. Hinaut nga ambitan pud ko ninjo ug panahon ug mga hunahuna niining akong paghinumdom sa atong pinanggang Bohol! (Many thanks for your visit. I hope that you will spare me your time and thoughts as I think about our beloved Bohol!)