The Philippines is divided into three main places called Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Luzon region is the biggest part located in the north pole, where we could find the capital city. The Visayas region is located at the center of the map whereas the Mindanao is located in the southern part.
I belong to the center part of Visayas. There are lots of different places inside on it and Cebu City is the big main city. But I'm not living in Cebu. My parent raised me up in Bohol, it is also a small island belongs to Visayas region.
Bohol has a 47 towns, 1,113 baranngays with 75 islands/islets. There are 31 baranggays located along the coastline included the only main City of Bohol, called Tagbilaran City. It is facing the one of the noted tourist spot in the Philippines, called Panglao. There are 17 inland barangays. Panglao is the new location of the latest international airport of Bohol.
My hometown is Loon
Loon, Bohol is the second class municipality with a 67 barangays. It has two tourist spot island called Sandingan Island and Cabilao Island. When I was small I already heard about the Cabilao Island Beach resort but we can't afford to go there. Sandingan Island is so near to us and it was the hometown of my grandmother. One hectare land of my grandmother's family sold to a British family last 2014 and now, they are building beautiful beach resorts. If I have a money, I want to have a business there.
Why is it called Loon?
According to my forefathers and school, it is called Loon because the sources of the water from our neighbor barangay in the part of the mountain meet the water to the sea and it supported the whole town of Loon. Loon in Visayan dialect refers to the English word mating. The source of our drinking water is located in the boundary of our barangay and the nearest one. My grandfather was the old maintenance working in the water district before he died.
I'm belong to the mountain of Loon.
I was born in Badbad Oriental Loon. It is 3 kilometers away from the town. Our town is along the sea. We were enjoying the sea every weekend before picking seashells and fishes. We have rich aquatic resources.
Unforgettable Church of Loon, Bohol
[image source](https://facebook.com/oldbohol/photos/a.447273408705140/447273748705106/?type=3&d=m)
I recommended this link for more detail about our church.
Credit to the owner of the picture #Old Bohol.
The church was made by the Spaniards during their visits in the Philippines islands in 18th century if I'm not wrong it was 1851. It was a very big and made from stone church. Spaniards headed by Magellan brought Christianity to our place. They build old stone churches all over Bohol Island and we had one in Loon. It was name Our Lady of Light Church. Inside the church, there were so many old statues of the Virgin Mary and the Apostles. There were angels made from stones. It was a very good artifacts. All the inside the church had an art of different Apostles and Jesus Christ. It was so memorable place to us but unfortunately it was turned to zero ground after the 2013 , 7.2 magnitude earthquake devastation in my place. I never had a picture because all of my album was damage by the earthquake. I requested a picture from my cousin to show up it here.
The church was the most memorable place for us as a rembrance from the Spanish exploration in our town long time ago.
The new Loon.
Last year when I visited my hometown, I was so grateful and thankful to God. The town stands again. I heard that we have already received some tourists from another part of the world. We have a lot of beautiful spots now and there is a tourist spot that is in progress.
Our language is Visaya and it is more on Spanish accent. We speak Tagalog and English as it is mandatory for our education from Kinder garden up to college. So if you visit Loon, Bohol I could assure you will enjoy your vacation.
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