Natural features

Chocolate Hills, Bohol

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Chocolate Hills, Bohol
Photo: rogel tura, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

More than 1,200 rounded grassy hills, which turn brown in the dry season like chocolate drops. A viewpoint at Carmen looks out over them.


On Bohol, also see the tiny tarsiers at the Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary in Corella, cruise the Loboc River, and relax on Panglao Island's beaches.

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