Chocolate Hills

The Chocolate Hills of Bohol are a geological formation of more than 1,200 nearly conical limestone mounds spread across an area of about 50 square kilometres in the central uplands of the island. During the dry season from November to May the grass covering these symmetrical hills turns a uniform chocolate brown, creating a landscape of rare geometric regularity unique in the world. The most visited viewing platform stands at Carmen, 56 kilometres from Tagbilaran, where the density and uniformity of the hills is most dramatic.