HOW WILL YOU SPEND YOUR SUMMER VACATION?

Summer in Philippines is approaching.I’m sure most people want to have a short exit from their daily routines.Some others booked their tours ahead in order to avail the cheaper price specifically on plane tickets.As i entered in travel agency stuffs, i saw a lot of people looking for a cheaper tours and affordable flight tickets to avail, and there are hundreds of travel agencies are responding to these costumers.I admitted that its very hard to catch a fish with a lot of fishermen next to you, so you really have to think on how to catch one. So since i’m not really good in the field, what i did was, i created an exploration event and i accept a tour services instead of selling my tours online. Lucky i got few people who are on my booking now.

Some people are asking about what’s the best way to spend the summer. So i responded  them with the pictures of my adventures.

1. If you are a climber lover, you can go to  a rock climb in Toledo where you can choose which rock walls to climb onto.For beginners, there is an easy to climb rock wall in upper poog which you don’t need to stretch yourself in order to reach higher to grip because there are holes  of the rocks that you can hold even from the bottom part. And if you want to do more intense climb or a hardcore climb adventure, you can go to cantabacco where the rock walls are a bit hard to climb because its very plain and there’s only few crack or holes to hold onto.The first time i was there, i was like i want to cheat, like i just want to lift myself up through the rope lol but i tried  so hard so i can reach the top. For an assistance, you can message me so i can inform the guide over there, you have to make a schedule of your climb because he is not always available unless you book your climb ahead of time.
2. IF you are into fishing, swimming, snorkeling, or scuba diving, get your swimsuits and  go the Pinamungajan’s Campalabo sandbar. Its only 20 mins. away from the mainland in Brgy. Tajao Pinamungajan. You must go there before the lowest tide so you can see the entire area when the water is out.Check the tide forecast the day before you visit the place.The good timing you get, the more chances that you can  see the beauty of the sandbar.
3. IF you are into chasing waterfalls, you can visit 300 meter odlum falls, sinungkolan, busagak and liki falls which are all located in Pinamungajan.Ask me for more details on how to get to this places.Or chasing waterfalls in Tilings Toledo city, its a very small town with tons of waterfalls.

   

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   4.IF you are into  hiking, you can visit casoy or Brgy. Gen Climaco’s famous Mt. Tagaytay so you can see the overlooking views of Toledo City. Chase sunset or stay overnight with your tent so you can experience the mini Baguio Feels due to its very cold weather during the night.Also its perfect to chase the sunrise when you wake up on the next day,  and if you’re lucky, you can experience the sea of clouds but its very rare to see them unless its rainy season because the area used to have a fogs when it rains. How to go there? Simply ride a jeep in  front of Toledo market going to casoy, and from casoy, you can ask the locals on how to go to mt.tagaytay. But as i heard, its better that you have to coordinate the brgy. office for your safety if ever you are going to stay over night.Im not saying that the place is not safe but its still comfortable that there are local government officials knew that you are there, isn’t it?

    

   

   

   5.Also you can visit the Guindowahon green landscapes where all you can see is a very nature friendly views, its located in Guindowahon Sudlon II Cebu City. Its accessible via Jy road in Lahug but i’m just not sure if how much do they charge by motobike going there. I heard one time that there are group of explorers who went there to have an outreach program and unfortunately the motorbike charged them 500.00 pesos each in just one go which is a bit higher from the regular rate. You can also go there through casoy- camansilis road going to pangamihan and you just have to negotiate with the motorbike on how much do he charge in order to go there.Usually they ask 150 pesos or 300 pesos back and forth.Why do you need to ride on motorbike to go there? Because you will be out of time if you hike from the bottom of pangamihan and it would take around 2-3 hrs. until you get to the place plus you must be back to casoy  before  5:00 pm otherwise you will miss the last trip of the jeep going to toledo.
   6.IF you like a hardcore adventures, there is a caving activity in Brgy. Lamac Pinamungajan where you really have to crawl or drag yourself in order to get inside and see the sparking stalactites and stalagmites. But as of now,The Tourism office paused the caving activity because the DENR  are having an assessment  of the area and they will reopen it to the public once their activity is done. Any questions or if you wanna know more details, you can always drop a message on my messenger

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   HAPPY TRAVELING MGA HIGALA !!!!!!!

    

ANOTHER WORTH EXPLORING SPOTS IN LAMAC

Im still surpised until now that pinamungajan has plenty of beautiful spots to offer to everyone when it talks about nature. From cave, falls, sandbar and spring that i’ve been explored before, i never know that theres still more spots that are untouch my many explorers.Whats the good thing about exploring unknown places is that the place is away from the crowd and you can feel the true essence of nature.Thats why i prefered to be in the woods either alone or with 1 or 2 companion specially when i am new to the place. Its more convinient and less worries to the people who are with you on the trip.

Like i said,  i explored the top destinations here in pinamungajan already but  i believed that there will be more places to be explored around. Theres one time that my friend from social media invited me if i can go  to lamac. Lamac is one of the barangays of pinamungajan  that has plenty of wonderful nature such as the kamangon cave, odlum falls and sinungkolan spring(see from my previous blogs).

So i accepted this guys invitation and we set a day to go there.We agreed to explore the  LIKING BATO,–MAGKAWA CAVE,—MAGKAWA CLIFF—CHASING BALAY DUGONG FALLS ,—AND BAGAKAY FALLS.

The day of our trip

So i packed what i needed (water, extra cloth, and my favorite samurai😂) and traveled to lamac to meet him. We meet around 8:30 am at the front of hidden valley mountain resort.. The places that we were about to explore is at the top of the mountain so i expected already about the view of entire lamac once we get there. I was a bit excited😂..

We started climbing the hill,passing through a rocky and forest portion of our trail and since it was a bit rainy,   the pathway was a bit slippery so you really have to be careful.

magkawa cliff..thats where we going to climb

After 20 minutes of climb, we reached the LIKING BATO. Its a pathway between the two high  rock walls but it was covered with big vines and small tress. Maybe if its not covered, it would look extra ordinary .and worthy to explore.There was a side of it that we had fun to climb on while we are resting. After few minutes of rest,, we continue to climb going to magkawa cave. I tell you guys, Lamac has 108 caves that are close to each other. And it was discovered last 2004 when there was caving summit congress held by a group of cavers from diffrent part of philippines and they held the activity lamac ,later they found out that there are 108 caves in there. And when we are on the way to magkawa cave,  i saw 4 of those caves.  All b2 caves. And they are all next to the pathway,so you really have to be extra careful on the slippery  and bushy trail otherwise you will fall straight to those caves.Struggling isnt it?  But nobody can stop us and we are both determined to reach the top of magkawa cave and the cliff.. Maybe another 20 minutes until we reach the magkawa cave. Its a very huge cave but not like other caves that you can enter and walk inside. This one looks like a very huge sinkhole.. Theres no chance to go down to the bottom because we dont have a proper rappelling  gears..and if you fall down there, its very hard that you can be rescued.. Not unless you have  a firesignal. As we get closer to the cliff, the more struggling experience  that we encountered.. We had to cross between the two rock walls that only connected with few pieces of woods. And the bottom of those rocks maybe 20 feet below. So one mistake, you will surely fall down to the bottom. But we managed to cross.

There are pointy rocks in there that looked like a dragon’s territory lol it just looked the same as the one i saw in the movie..

 

Just like the saying, “good places can be seen after the hardest climb”.well i can say that despite the hardship that we encountered from climbing the hill, and climbing those high and pointy rocks,  those are worthy because the view was totally amazing.. Specially when you are at the cliff.. I even screamed because i conquered my fear of hieghts. The view of lamac was very nice and   it was worth exploring.We took pictures and rest for a bit before we go back to our trail. Atleast we knew how it looks over there and it somehow healed my curiousity.

So we went back to our trail and headed to the river. Another impression about in lamac is that they have an abundance of water. That you cannot just wash your clothes or water your plants but also you can swim or dive on it.. Not all the town has free water though. Some others are paying their water bill every month.. But here in lamac, its totally a zero cost and free for everyone😊.  So we reached to the top of the river and saw the bagakay falls and balay dugong falls.. They called it balay dugong falls because it was discovered when there was a tv series about sea creatures and there was one of the characters named dugong who live in the cave. And since the falls has a cave at the back of the water drop, they called it balay dugong falls or litterally means-house of dugong.  Its called  Bagakay falls because the falls was sorrounded by bagakays. Bagakay is one the type of bamboos but is thinner than the regular ones.

So if you guys wanna go there, you can contact me but i can only recommend the chasing of those waterfalls that i’ve explored.Climbing on cliff, mmm maybe its not advisable for everyone.its too risky.

 

 

GONNA WRITE MORE SOON.

HAPPY TRAVELING!!

THE AMAZING CAMPALABO SANDBAR

Campalabo sandbar is one of the most interesting place that ‘ive visited  in pinamungajan. Its a strip of  white sand and is about 20 minutes away from the mainland.lts near in marine sanctuary so this place is very ideal for diving, snorkeling and swimming. Also its a no fishing zone so whatever you see in here is for your eyes only. As an explorer, i have this motto which others are also doing it “take nothing but pictures, and leave nothing but footprints”The local tourism is conserving the place because there are lots of corals that you can see under the water. Its pretty amazing that once you are there, you can see the small creatures swimming next to you 😊.

 

On my first time of visiting the sandbar, i was with the social welfare staffs because they wanted to go with me but we are a bit late.lnstead of meeting up by 7 am so we can leave and reach there before 8:30(the lowest tide) , some of these guys arrived around 8:45 am already and its about 10 mins to go the beach where we rent a boat.. Its totally late. But still we went to the sandbar. When we arrived, the waters high  already and theres a little bit of sand showing up..  Its not disappointing that we are late because these place has a lot of things to offer . If its low tide, you can see the white sand and you can lay down on it, but if its high tide, well its very perfect for swimming and diving. Theres a part of the light house where you can dive when the water is high. 

I told myself i always go back here. And just last weekend, i went back there with pinamungajan tourism fellas: yogi ygay-tourism designate, venus her friend ,jake and the rest from tourism office staffs.

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We went there  for a photoshoot of the sandbar because they will launch a tour package very soon.We also had a professional photographer with us :ivan perez from municipality of pinamungajan who took us a very nice photos. Also i brought my foriegn friend sir barry. I actually just meet him about few weeks ago and he was new in the town and one time he visited my store cos theyre looking for foods to eat and thats how i meet him.  I showed him those wonderful places that i explored in pinamungajan and hes very interesting to explore them. And the sandbar was the first that he wanted to see.

6:30 am i meet sir barry and his wife and two of their family members. They thought that we will go caving because i mention a lot of good places but i guess sir barry didnt told them where we exactly going and these guys are wearing jeans and rubber shoes.. Were not gonna climb mountains but were going to swim. And they were surprised with it 😁 but theres no time to change because we need to be there at the sandbar before the lowest tide otherwise we will gonna miss it just  like the first time that we went there. So we left and meet miss yogi and her team at bugsay public beach resort. And i introduced them to my guests on that day. 

As soon as we finished loading our stuffs to the boat, we left to the sandbar. That time the lowest tide was 10:57 am but we left around 8 oclock and the sandbar is only about 20 mins away.. Its better to be early though so that you can really see the entire sandbar.

When we arrived there, theres already a bit of sands that showing up and we just have to wait for an hour until the entire sand appears..

I brought my lazy air bed with me as part of our props for the photoshoot.. Cos i was one of the models of the day hahahaa.. As if i was like a model lol. Ivan took us a photo also from the top of the light house which looks very cool😎.Hes got a very good skills on photography,i wish i will learn that one day.

 

While others are busy taking their photos also, some of our members were preparing a very mouth watering foods-maybe you can say im a sugar coating to my words but who will not gonna starve to this 👇?

Maybe some of you  (friends from outside the country) are not familiar with this foods but we, filipinos are on demand with this type of foods specially when swimming in the beach.

Grilled fish

Poso-or  steam rice wrapped in coconut leaves

Kinilaw-the one in the white container. Its raw small fish but its cooked with vinegar and some spices on it.

Dipping sauce

Boiled sweet potatoes  and boiled bananas.

Let me know if you wanna try this.

 

After our lunch,other people went to snorkeling, others are just sitting on the sandbar. And since we already are there, i asked sir barry about how he described campalabo sandbar.. See our convo here👇

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And he even posed a blogger style pose for me 😁 because he knows im gonna blog this. 

Being away from a noisy and traffic environment is one way of destressing and my way of destressing myself is to explore unknown places but being in this sandbar is not just  keeping you  from stessful world but it offers a total relaxation, peace of mind, and i can say its a diffrent kind of adventure.

 

I will update soon once their tour package  will be launched already. How to rent a boat and everything. But one thing to remind everyone, visit here before the lowest tide.

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HAPPY TRAVELING!!!

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