Yummy! Why Are The Chocolate Hills The Source Of Beautiful Legends?

The Chocolate Hills are not the real candies but shaped like coned chocolates and spread over an approx. 50 Sq. km area at Bohol Province of Philippines. There are around 1,776 haycock hills, which are mounds with conical and domical shaped. The mounds are covered with grasses that turn brown in summer and appear like chocolates. 

It is one of the famous tourist attractions of Bohol and/or Philippines that attracts thousands of tourist every year to visit this place. In addition, there are many stories and legends about these beautiful chocolates of Bohol.

Chocolate Hills, the source of beautiful legends

There are many local and ancient stories and legends that express and make illustrious to these chocolate hills; however four stories among them are most popular and romantic.

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1. The most popular story of the hills is, once two rival giants fight with throwing stones and rocks on each others’ but when they exhausted, forget everything about their conflict and became friends. They left that place without cleaning up the messes, which made to the hills.
2. Second story is like this; there is a giant named ‘Arogo’ who fell into love with a beautiful girl ‘Aloya’. When Aloya died Aroga depressed very much and cried for a long time; when the tears dried up, formed the Chocolate hills.
3. The third story is, once there was a carabao (a kind of jungle buffalo), who used to ate all the crops of the villagers. So, the villagers planned to punish the carabao and kept some waste food on its way to their agricultural lands. When the carabao came and ate the food, couldn’t control or digest, defecated and left thousand feces till the stomach get empty; the dried feces later became mounds which now called as Chocolate hills.
4. The last legend is, once there was a giant named ‘Miguel’ who was very greedy and ate everything that comes on his way. One day he saw a beautiful girl named ‘Adrianna’, he fell in love and to win her heart Miguel tried to lessen his weight and excreted everything he ate. At last, he succeeds to won her but the feces he left there became mounds, which are now ‘Chocolate Hills’ of Bohol.