I was thrilled and excited on a Wednesday Walk at a nature refuge, a mini jungle that protects wildlife creatures. A trek to a natural habitat in search of tarsiers was a whole lot of fun.
The Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary located at Bohol, Philippines in Corella locality is a perfect place to see one of the endangered wildlife animals in their natural refuge as they were protected, conserved, and saved.
Tarsiers being famous for being one of the oldest and smallest primates in the world, dwell at a heart of a peaceful place.
Personally, it is my first time to see a Tarsier on its natural habitat. Even before, I always wish to see it in person as I often see it in books with its fun facts.
Aside from being nocturnals, those big eyes are really so cute, and how surprising that its brain are not huge and it is even smaller than its eyes.
Unfortunately, these wildlife creatures are being threatened by extinction, so there is really a need to protect their family. Thus, one way of saving and conserving them is to protect their own natural home so they could exist in the next coming generations.
In fact, the sanctuary in the Philippines not only protects Tarsiers but as well as other precious wildlife animals in the forest found at Bohol.
When we arrived at the spot, a lot of signages were displayed before entering the nature refuge.
Most of the signages welcome every visitor with a reminder to maintain silence.
At the entrance, although one hundred fifty pesos or three dollars was indicated on the signage, I had only paid fifty pesos or one dollar. I was really happy for the very big discount at the payment corner.
Another signage had displayed a beautiful reminder to keep quite, switch off the engine, set mobile phones in silent mode, and switch off camera flash as flashes are not allowed.
Meanwhile, as I walked going to the area, I have seen a lot of trees of various kinds and there were a lot of Balete trees all around.
There were so many Balete trees surrounding the natural habitat of the Tarsier.
Honestly, whenever I will see Balete trees, I find it very horrible since in the Philippine traditional folklore, many superstitious folks claimed that natural spirits and supernatural creatures such as dwarfs, fairies, tree and horse demons.
I remember when I was younger, I have been told by old folks of not to go near the trees as they are the gateways to the superstitious world of myth stories that are very scary. But I believe, I will not know when I would not be able to encounter a horror experience.
There were also small cottages behind those Balete trees at the sides.
And then I have seen real wild flowers blooming in a blend of red and white.
I may not exactly know the name of these flowers but they are really fascinating. The were artificial to look at, but they were for real and I so love them.
Suddenly, we were able to enter on a small building of Tarsier Foundation, Inc, and had seen a lot of signages about the constant reminders.
The key to be there is to follow the simple rules so the Tarsiers will not be disturbed.
As soon as we are done paying, we were so thrilled and excited, and there was an option to be guided or not. But I am more comfortable to be with the guides because I am not really familiar of the place, and I am really afraid about myth stories most especially that Balete trees were just around the area.
After a while, the trek to the forest has started and we were able to pass on this path.
All of a sudden, we have seen a cute little tarsier that seemed hiding on a bamboo tree.
I was once very surprised the moment that I had first saw it. So, I paused for a while to capture a perfect shot.
But still, I was not able to capture it perfectly because it was covered by the leaves and stalks of its habitat.
We entered another spot, and we had a great walk as we passed this path.
Once again, I was able to see amazing Tarsiers that seemed like hiding.
Since Tarsiers are nocturnals, some of them were really sleeping as we had a trek to its natural habitat.
As I looked up, I have not seen any Tarsier above while thinking that it may be just hiding in the leaves and bushes, but there was no tarsier at the spot.
This Tarsier is really so fluffy. Since touching it or getting closest to it were not allowed, I simply focused the lens so I could capture it perfectly.
Here are all the shots captured.
After a walk all around the jungle to search for Tarsiers, I had captured a perfect moment to have a selfie with a closer shot with the cutest creature in the sanctuary.
My camera has no flash. I was very happy to see that the Tarsier was very camera ready though, while me on the other side felt like having too many shots for a great capture of the cutest little creature.
I was really mesmerized by its big, clear, and round eyes. It was very cute and fluffy. How I wish I could hug it, but it is not allowed since it will be disturbed.
What a beautiful experience to see it on its natural refuge where their kind were protected and conserved. Perhaps it was really a fun trek to the mini jungle in search of Philippine Tarsiers.
Disclaimer: All texts and pictures are my own, unless otherwise stated.
