Chocolate Hills in Bohol province, Philippines
December 1969 Issue
Chocolate Hills in Bohol province, Philippines
Geologists debate how the more than 1,200 hills, each 30 to 50 meters high, were formed, but there’s no question that the Chocolate Hills in Bohol province, Philippines, pictured in the April issue, are the area’s most popular attraction.
By the end of the dry season the hills are brown, hence the name. However, many of you, like reader Evenyl Roemmich of Stockton, California, saw them when they were green, in what she termed their “Mint Hill” phase, during the rainy season.
Thirty-eight readers sent in correct answers, and MARJORIE KLINGAMAN of Mexico, Missouri, won the drawing. We thank Sandra and John Scott of Mexico, New York, for sending in the photo.