chocolate hills

 chocolate  hills Philippines  chocolate   hills fly over  Boho Island in the Philippines in the dry season  and you'll see and unusual landscape below  hundreds of small round brown hills spread out  like a box of chocolate lush plant grow in the tropical monsoon climate and there are rain forest and rice fields surrounding the grass covered  hills The  island is home to the tiny philippine tarsier one of the worlds smallest  primates. coral creation The  chocolate  hills are made from limestone rock covered in grass many scientist believe that  they are the remain  of ancient coral reefs the limestone  was created by the coral over time rainfall has smoothed them into their  current shape. How the hills may be the remains of coral coral reef group seabed about z million years age this area lay ender shallow  sea coral reefs covered the  shaded  limestone rock made by the coral cracked as it was pushed up ground  movement of the earths  crust caused the land to  rise out of the sea exposing the coral reefs. rain eroded the exposed rock more easily in the cracks  very slowly rain eroded  the  limestone eventually shaping it into round humps the chocolate hills. like chocolate in a box  there are more than a thousand hills almost identical in shape none is very high the tallest is only 400 ft  (120 m) in the rainy season the hills  are covered  in green grass in the  dry season the grass dies and turns  brown giving the hill their name. green grass covers the hills in the trop ical rainy season . in the dry season  the grass dies and turns the hills brown. tarsi sanctuary with the  exception of  the chocolate  hill Bohol Inlands main attraction is the Philippine  Tarsier sanctuary this protected  patch of rain forest is home  to hundreds of these beautiful but endangered animals tarsiers hunt insects at night  they have huge  saucer shaped eyes for seeing in the dark. legend  says local legend tells of and  imaginary story about how the hills were  created by  two rival giants during a fight lasting several the  giants hurled rock and stones at each other. finally  exhausted they called a truce and and soon afterward  left the island abandoning their  boulder filled battlefield.  from called book amazing earth.