- Are you Sikatuna yet?

A Pleasant Road Trip to Sikatuna, Bohol

As I said in a previous post, we like to go on “excursions” if we have free time. It’s great to be able to travel around Bohol in our own car and explore. Normally the roads in Bohol are very good with not much traffic, especially outside the city.

Most of the country highways are pretty nice

We were on one such excursion recently to the east and north of Tagbilaran, where we went to Baclayan, Alburquerque, Loay, and Loboc. We also went to Sikatuna. It is a small pleasant town of about 7000 people, actually the smallest municipality by land area in Bohol. 

Sikatuna Town Hall
Who is the clown in the back?

Historic church in Sikatuna

It is named for the native chieftain, Datu Sikatuna, who in 1565 signed a peace treaty, the Blood Compact, with the Spanish explorer Miguel Lopez de Legazpi. It is said that both leaders contributed their own blood into a cup from which they both drank, thus sealing the Compact and their friendship.

There is a monument to the Blood Compact in Tagbilaran.

Yeah, me and Miguel go way back

You didn't know that Legazpi and Sikatuna were into selfies?

Anyway, we had just motored through the town of Sikatuna when we saw an advertisement beside the road for a tourist destination that none of us had ever heard of before. We had all been on at least one tour of the island, but this one was unfamiliar. It is called the “Sikatuna’s Mirror of the World and Botanical Garden”.

We sped down a very narrow side road and soon came upon the attraction. It is going to be built in 5 stages, and Phase I has not even been completed yet. By the time Phase V is completed, it will be absolutely mammoth! But there is already a lot there to enjoy.

There are statues of Greek gods and goddesses.

There is the Eiffel Tower from Paris.

There is the Statue of Liberty from New York.

There is Christ the Redeemer statue from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

There is a huge Christmas tree (from the North Pole?).

There is a restaurant there.

The whole world is there.

It was quite an enjoyable road trip. We look forward to going back as they complete other phases of the project. And we look forward to other excursions as well!