mountains – Traveling Thoughts

This happens to be one of my favorite hiking trip. The view was amazing. We were able to catch the sea of clouds and my goodness, the SKY is just so beautiful the whole time We started the hike around 4am. The trails were slippery/muddy thus making us slide and fall everytime I consider that as the fun part tho haha! At the time, it was foggy and cold but we started sweating after minutes of hiking.

When I reached near the upper part of the mountain, I’m starting to feel the excitement. I gave myself a moment of silence to just look, stare and appreciate the beauty of the incoming sunrise. The feeling of being proud that at 5:00AM where almost all people are still sleeping and here I am, doing the mountain trek This is the feeling that’s hard to trade for anything. It feels really good and satisfying

So there are two mountain summits. The first one that we passed was Mt. Cayabu. However a flock of people welcomes us when we got there so we decided to continue to the next one. I didn’t expect that it would take us long so it’s nice to meet strangers that turned friends along the way. They definitely made it so much fun. All of them are so funny and been very thoughtful to us. I didn’t find it so tiring because most of the time we are just laughing

After some time, we now reach the Mt. Maynoba

It’s so beautiful. Witnessing the sea of clouds on a great weather just feel so awesome

It’s just WOW

I’m literally speechless and left me lost with my surroundings. I started zoning out myself from people and just had the luxury of staring the beauty laid infront of my eyes. I only got recover when my friends already asked me to go forward for the 8 wonder falls

Right. I’m back to reality

Walk walk walk. And we reached the first waterfall. I guess it just one long waterfalls divided in 8

Maybe you’ll enjoy this more if it’s not so crowded in there. A lot of people are staying there to eat and sleep

We had our lunch and continued hiking until we reached the end

We lined up to the bathroom and paid P20 to take a shower. After that we are already prepared to leave. However, this trip includes a side trip to Windmills in Tanay Rizal. It was nice but nothing much special

it’s okay tho

All in all we spent P700 with inclusion of van transfer and the tour guide Worth it? Definitely. Much worthy than P700

At first, I don’t understand what do people get from hiking. I saw them posting it on Facebook every now and then. I mean, what are you going to do in the mountains? Until one day, I joined a club in the company I work on, where employees that are adventurous go on hike, surf, and travel with a cause etc.

So yeah, I registered to their hike at Mt. Ulap. But it doesn’t sound that easy ! I don’t have the things that I needed for the hike. Great right. LOL. So here is the list of what should I get.

Those things kinda overwhelmed me. So I contacted a friend that already hikes mountains so often. Asking advice and all. Apparently he drags me into a mountain hike right before the MT . Ulap trek. They are just week apart. He said I should just join so I could experience it with myself and know the Do’S and the Dont’s.

SO HERE COMES MY FIRST HIKE 🙂 Presenting, MT. BINACAYAN, Rodriguez Rizal.

This hike was amazing. It was AWESOME! So beautiful. But before you get what you have reaped off, you have to endure the tiring trails. We started with a prayer for all of us to be safe then proceed with the assault on the trails. I said to myself, “what have I entered into”. It really was tiring. BUT as what have I said, it was so worth it. OMG! I cant even explain how perfect it was! We started hiking at 4am and we’re able to catch the sunrise. The view from the top is priceless. All that sweat and complaints had really paid off.

Conquering this mountain only needs less than P1000. The expenses are as follows:

Guide fee is P500 (This already works for a group. Its up to you if you want to add more for their effort of taking photos 😉
You have to buy gloves since this mountain have rocky/rough surfaces. I guess it cost around P30-P50. I cant remember how much haha Apologies. Wear comfortable clothes and shoes. Might as well bring slippers for the wawa falls after the trek. YEP. You can chill after.
Ofcourse water. Lots of water.
I also bought energy drink and chocolates
Going down, there will be a mini store where you can buy foods/drinks.

After the trekking, its just right in time to get some lunch and we decided to rent a “Kubo” at wawa Falls. You have to pay for it as well. We have rice and eggs with us. Our guide initiates to buy us cooked meals already so it was a good lunch I could say. Below is the photo of us in Wawa Falls 😀

The falls was very refreshing. It feels like a massage after the tiring long trails. Be careful tho coz every time you climb up you’d probably slide just like what happened with my friend and I. haha! It was fun but hurts in the ass hahahah! This experience was pretty amazing that made me wants to hike more 🙂

Adios! 🙂