The Chocolate Hills

The chocolate hills is one of the places that you must visit when on vacation to the Philippines. panoramic view of the results of the geological nature a very interesting form clusters of brown in the dry season. The Chocolate Hills is an unusual geological formation in Bohol, Philippines. According to a survey recently conducted, there are 1,776 hills spread over the island which has an area of ​​more than 50 square kilometers (20 sq mi). The island is covered in green grass that is widespread and will turn into brown during the dry season, hence the name in the call of The Chocolate Hills.
During the dry season, the grass dried up and turned brown. It is turning the area into an endless line of chocolate or the so-called "chocolate kisses".


Type of grass found in this area is a cylinder reed and Saccharum spontaneum and some Compositae and ferns. Trees that grow at the base of the hill forming a ring of green hills as if seen from a distance and describe the natural beauty of the amazing effects. The Chocolate Hills are dry grass plains at the top and around the hills on the island. dome hills vary in size from 30 to 50 meters (98-160 feet) with the largest size is 120 meters (390 feet) in height.


Geological theory that the most acceptable in evaluating the hills are the hills that are the result of thousands of years of weathering of marine limestone. Others say that the hills are formed during many years ago by an increase in the size of coral or emerged from the sea as a result of a major shift in geological layers, and also as a result of storm water resulting in the erosion of a thousand years ago and formed a hill piled around him.