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so banaue is in ifugao? or ifugao is in banaue? i am not sure. you can trek to this falls between an hour to three hours, depending on how fast you go, but just a friendly warning, it is a long way, you will hike up and down and in the middle of rice terraces (with a magnificent view of the area) and when you get there you would wish you won't have to take the same route again going back :P bring as much drinking water as you can carry :D on our way to the falls many locals walk past us like they are just walking five meters instead of five kilometers, some were bringing cases of beer, or sacks of grain, and surely they are laughing at us secretly after looking at our faces covered with sweat and red from the heat. usually when i do some grueling physical activity, i get the body ache a day after, but trekking to the tappia falls was a different experience, my body could not wait for the next day to start aching. all effort is graciously rewarded of cour...

exiting the first cave in sagada, still underground you pass through a small inlet that you have to climb into to get through sumaging cave, at the entrance of sumaging cave, you enter a great big hall where giants could live inside by the height of its ceiling (it is high enough that light from our lamp could not get to it), how would the giants get in, i would not know.   i have not been to many caves around the philippines, but i would definitely recommend spelunking in sagada, its a good two to three hour adventure, even with a guide, your heart would literally be pounding when trying not to fall or slip on the semi-dangerous slopes and passageways. i would recommend getting to sagada from baguio, then you can extend you trip to banaue, you get most of your trip that way compared to taking the baguio - banaue - sagada route. from manila, bus leaves for baguio mostly every hour during the day (they also have night and dawn trips) at the victory liner bus statio...

there is only one tree in our garden and that is the pomelo tree, for a big area it is the only big tree there so it gets all the nutrients in the ground, its fruits are juicy and sweet and we recently harvested from it more than 20 pomelo fruits and there are still more on the branches. mai mai has juiced some of it, soon we will taste what real pomelo and gin tastes like :)

Camara and Capones Islands We joined a group tour to anawangin cove last jan 28 and 29 and it was a beautiful experience. the beach at anawangin cove is very clean, maybe because it had protection against various debris coming in from the open sea, now that i think about it, i cannot remember seeing a single coconut tree in the immediate vicinity were people visiting the place could get to. my second sketch on that trip, the view was amazing, a big mountain just overlooking pundaquit as the sun is rising, but not captured here on my sketch, see the wind pump on the lower left corner of the sketch, truly the scene is amazing. for the trip i only brought with me a pen, but as i went around the beach, i found this piece of charcoal and it was hard enough to make a sketch out of it. i have not sketched in charcoal for a long time and realized how much i missed it agnain cove camara island a view of a mountain surrounded by fog that seems to ...