Bol-anon Village Cultural Trails 1

Bol-anon Village Cultural Trails 1 Culture and Nature Trails It is community-based and part of a disaster recovery program. Most food items served are organically produced.

The tour features unique Bohol island heritage cultural practices, arts, crafts and nature experiences in trails or pathways both in an interior village and coastal areas. The tour package program benefits some 50 to 60 cultural workers, women entrepreneurs, farmers, persons with disabilities, youth, carpenters and fisherfolks. Activities of the tour are arranged in cultural or eco-trails or pathw

ays (some inland, others on rivers and coastal areas). In the Fiesta Trail I, the visitors become part of the gaiety involved in Bohol fiestas/harvest season. This involves singing, dancing, tuba drinking, rice pounding and unfolding rituals. Guests get to taste and prepare island cuisine and chocolate drink, witness and be part of heritage crafts demo, like puso-making, fish-décor making, basketry or palm toy weaving (local oregami). The Nature Experience Trail II first takes visitors to a nature trek, then they can interact with village folks through an arnis martial arts demo or bamboo wall weaving session or cockfighting training, and other river scenarios set in the 1900s era culminating in river rafting. In the Fisherfolks Trail III, visitors explore a 100-year old mangrove forest known to be enchanted, go on a boating, fishing expedition, participate in nipa shingles making and installation, or take a boardwalk over a mangrove forest, or experience an enchanting night with fireflies. In the Heritage Trail IV, visitors take a walkabout of heritage points in Maribojoc town, which includes a tour of the earthquake ruins of the Sta. Cruz Church, and the uplifted or dried up coastal area of Punta Cruz village (brought about by the 7.2 intensity tremor of Oct. 15, 2013) or the Organic Farm Demo Site. In the evenings, visitors participate in cultural treats for the season, like haranas for summer, daygon for the last quarter, Flores de Mayo, and other historical and popular repertoire of the resident cultural troupe and other folk and guest talents. A tiangge gives visitors a chance to bring home some craft/souvenir items. Fiesta Trail I in the morning with lunch, and Fisherfolks’ Trail III in the afternoon will be a one day tour package at P 850 with lunch in Toril. A two-day tour package includes the Fiesta Trail I, the Fisherfolks Trail III and the Heritage Walkabout (Trail IV) which covers the ruins of the Maribojoc Sta. Cruz Church and the uplifted coastal area of Punta Cruz and watchtower. In the afternoon of the 2nd day of the two-day tour, guests can go to the Organic Farm Demo Site. The boardwalk becomes an option after Punta Cruz Watchtower where guests can eat their packed lunch or lunch can be served at the Demo Farm site. The two-day tour will amount to
P 1,500 (with packed lunch on the second day and snacks).

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Toril, Maribojoc, Bohol, Philippines
Maribojoc
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The tour features unique Bohol island heritage cultural practices, arts, crafts and nature experiences in trails or pathways both in an interior village and coastal areas. It is community-based and part of a disaster recovery program. The tour package program benefits some 50 to 60 cultural workers, women entrepreneurs, farmers, persons with disabilities, youth, carpenters and fisherfolks. Activities of the tour are arranged in cultural or eco-trails or pathways (some inland, others on rivers and coastal areas).

In the Fiesta Trail I, the visitors become part of the gaiety involved in Bohol fiestas/harvest season. This involves singing, dancing, tuba drinking, rice pounding and unfolding rituals. Guests get to taste and prepare island cuisine and chocolate drink, witness and be part of heritage crafts demo, like puso-making, fish-décor making, basketry or palm toy weaving (local oregami). The Nature Experience Trail II first takes visitors to a nature trek, then they can interact with village folks through an arnis martial arts demo or bamboo wall weaving session or cockfighting training, and other river scenarios set in the 1900s era culminating in river rafting.

In the Fisherfolks Trail III, visitors explore a 100-year old mangrove forest known to be enchanted, go on a boating, fishing expedition, participate in nipa shingles making and installation, or experience an enchanting night with fireflies.

In the Heritage Trail IV, visitors take a walkabout of heritage points in Maribojoc town, which includes a tour of the earthquake ruins of the Sta. Cruz Church, and watch efforts at heritage restoration at Escuella Taller, and proceed to the uplifted or dried up coastal area of Punta Cruz village (brought about by the 7.2 intensity tremor of Oct. 15, 2013).