Stories of Places, People and Photography in the Philippines and Beyond
Apologies for the slow updates here as I’ve been caught in between some side projects and work related projects as well. Promise to do my blog rounds as soon as I’m able. For the meantime here’s one of my last few entries for Siquijor. After doing some rounds of beaches and mangrove sanctuaries surrounding the island, it’s time to go inland and go subterranean and explore some underground wonders, after which, we’ll do a short hike up to the highest point of the island.
I have always been a nature person. Given a choice if I’ll hang around a mall or the countryside I’ll definitely choose the latter. With my friend already off back to Singapore by bus yesterday, I’m on my own on my last day in Kuala Lumpur. So what am I to do on this city of skyscrapers and railways before I fly out by night? I’ve already explored the Mini-forest at Bukit Nanas near the Menara Tower and been around the malls and parks in the city. So very early in the morning I went to the nearest LRT, bought a ticket and took the first train to Wangsa Maju station since I decided to go a bit out of town to climb Bukit Tabur in Taman Melawati.
It’s been quite a while since I’ve been out on the road. So when a fellow climber and one of the officers of MFPI Ms Ruby, invited me to join an Akyat-Aklat Outreach Project by Batch 19 of of MFPI’s individual members, I jumped at the opportunity and hey it would be a great start for the year to do an outreach. Last outreach I’ve done was way back in 2001. So off we go to Cambulo, Ifugao.
I never thought that I’ll be back in Mt. Maculot so soon. But since I promised an old climbing buddy I haven’t seen for some time that I’ll take him here after seeing my previous post on Mt. Maculot, I scheduled our climb. Thanks to Cruise for inviting me here the first time around, it greatly added to my logistics of the area. Same as what we did, we went on a night trek, but the fun came much later as 2 new friends were added to our list during our climb.
Had another chance of climbing again last weekend thanks to the gracious invitation of Adtrek on their anniversary climb. Thank god the weather was nice (I guess too nice, – it’s freaking hot!). It was really hot, probably why I got lazy to take more shots than the usual.
Nung isang linggo, nayaya akong mag Mt. Maculot. At dahil medyo matagal-tagal na rin akong di nakaka-akyat ng bundok pumayag na rin ako. Una medyo nag-a alangan ako kasi Mt. Maculot. Isa ata sa pinaka sikat na bundok na inaakyat sa Batangas, na-iisip ko di masyadong maganda at baka madumi paligid. Pero dahil mura lng naman at wala naman akong naka schedule nung weekend na yun, pumayag na rin ako.
This will be the first in the series about Caramoan. Since there are some people asking how to get there, this would serve as a simple guide.
