Bohol trip--carabao, rice and chocolate

Carabao are used extensively in the rice paddies and sugar cane fields in the Philippines.

This carabao is almost camoflaged while enjoying a mud bath.

Some of the smaller rice paddies use garden tillers with special attachments to prepare the
soil for planting.


Newly growing rice paddies situated among the Chocolate Hills on Bohol

After putting the rice through a grinder, a worker "tosses" the rice back and forth on a flat basket to separate the husk from the grain.

The red and brown fruit on this cocoa tree will eventually become chocolate!