SUNSET OVER BOHOL SEA Sunset view from one of Amorita’s two infinity pools I was on Panglao Island in Bohol when the Philippine government declared a new round of strict quarantines in the National Capital Region and surrounding provinces like Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal. My last day was no less quick, frantic, and hurried than the flight for exile before a revolution, although in hindsight why didn’t I think of purposely having myself marooned on the island indefinitely or at least through Holy Week? I was at Amorita Resort, in a pool villa with a king-sized bed, a patio, and a plunge pool, nestled in a 120-square-meter lush garden. It would have been perfect for the week of contemplation encouraged during Holy Week and then necessitated by the reimposed lockdown on account of the COVID-19 surge. In a quiet corner of Panglao Island, the award-winning luxury resort is perched on a limestone cliff overlooking Bohol Sea and descending on one side to Alona Beach, the one-kilometer-long stretch of beach famous for its white, powdery sand and rocky cliffs and its bounty of corals and reef fishes. But Panglao, with its sinkholes, its dive spots, its caves, of which the most famous is Hinagdanan Cave, is only one jewel in the crown that is Bohol.