Ever since, Jay had been the adventurous type of guy, and i just the witty follower of his versatility. With him being a venturesome explorer, we do out of towns usually from "I heard it was great in that place.."so we will travel with our bags and map without knowing how to get there nor what to expect there. That's how he explore places, it has been all through and it is becoming our routine to travel clueless together yet we bring an awesome experience "as always" luckily, afterwards.
First time riding with Genesis Joy bus, their deluxe trip to Baler. I was impressed on how the bus looked inside or maybe i was just used to riding in day time (Deluxe,Victory liner) and thus the lighting of the bus got me carried away. It has larger seats though it is not pro actively for couple because the middle arm rest serves as the barrier not like the other deluxe bus were you can easily pull it up to make it as lover seats. Usual complimentary food and drink, blanket, no movies on board maybe because they wanted us to sleep, and WiFi but along the way it disconnects so i had to use my data. We were expecting to be in Aurora at 5:00 am and i as usual kept on asking how far was the place at again and again. My ass was so far due in sitting =)
Welcome to Baler, this was taken after we settled on our room to stay in. There was so much stuffs going on in Aurora, that it was hard for us walk ins to get a place. It was fully booked and we had to literally go down by far each hotels to ask, thanks to Mang narding for helping us and he just made an agreement that he will be our tourist guide easy as that!. It was Aurora week, we did not get to watch the surfing competition the day before we arrived, and there were several events we missed in Sabang beach and that was a down fall for us,only if we knew.
Any who, It's our first day and this will be mostly pictures and captions so it'll go by fast, i'll be posting places that we went to and the must to see in baler. have fun!
Our balai like breakfast on valentines day, pinoy style!
First food of the day Bangsilog. Gave up meat this lent so i had this bangus and the boyfriend just had to follow me. Fuel up before we head out to visit the tourist spots of baler and we're not wasting anytime to be slouching around. Jay wanted to go around after breakfast.
Museo de baler- where most of the foreign leaders that are part of baler's history is painted
out here, not popular and does not even have face value- looking all mean. We went around the museum pretty interesting how there was lots to know about baler and about this people beside us.
Baler church, were the famous Baler movie was filmed. We were brought here
because this is one of culture/ historical interest that you may wanted to know about in Baler.  |
| Panoramic shot of this Amazing top view of the Ermita hill |
Ermita Hill- were the history does make sense well according to mang narding- our driver, tourist guide for the day. Ermita hill was created by the tidal wave before that washed away a part of baler, this was only few members of each families that had climbed the steep hill in able to survive the tragedy. One of those family are the Angara (senator) who triumphantly leads the whole province even today. This is the bottom part of the Ermita hill. |
| Diguisit beach and Anao Islet |
PAGASA weather station- it is on the top most of Baler and thus just looking at our faces this is the face of such relief after a 30 minute walk from a super steep hill. What a success in walking, way to go boyfriend for choosing this place! I knew i had the biggest feeling of walk when our driver said "try natin kung kaya ng tricycle ko" and then there our driver and his tricycle left us in the middle of nowhere. "I'll be waiting up there" and that "there" his saying was a lie it was way up there, on the top! I don't know how to describe the feeling of collapsing and walking at the same time but that's how we felt, and i know how much i yelled to my boyfriend for waterrrr! =)
There was no power by the time we got up in PAGASA weather station so we did not have the chance to at least see all the weather apparatus they use. One guy just had to do such explaining while we ask about how do they radar weather in Baler, he was nice enough that he gives us detailed answers to learn, while i finished two bottles of water. THIRSTY! btw, the white ball is the radar.
Jay was extremely down to climb the balete tree on its top while i was undecided feeling all crappy to be alone down there. I hate waiting but i was also scared on how the roots were so tangled- it was too high, i can climb yes! but i don't know about going back down and that was the hardest part. After all i did climb and it took me a whole lot of time to get down.
Our tourist guide was really down for this last place that we're going to, to be exact we knew how the place called and we know that this is somehow the best part because it was the last part of the tour. No expectations as our usual motto, it has been an adventurous tour for us from walking to climbing since the start. Going all through the baranggays in Aurora was quite an adventure especially we're doing it just by tricycle as a mode of our transportation. To this last place we though this could possibly made the tour a wrap! and it is...
Trek down to Ditumabao Falls- this would probably the highlight of all the places we visited today only to know that i'll be sort of Lara Croft were you would cross rivers with strong water currents, crossing bamboo bridges, and a 30-40 minute trek up high to "Mother Falls" above the generation power plant.
This was a 30-40 minute trek up to the falls and again asking is necessary, how long would this take? Are we there yet? My boyfriend jay, could not seem to give up and gives more of an effort to push me half way, i was dead tired. Our tour guide did not even went up with us, he only trek till before crossing the first river. This was the last leg of the tour series and it was a combination of all we had for the whole tour- walking, climbing plus extra slipping and bruises made it all. As i mention i was dead tired so i asked jay to look ahead if we're even halfway or are we going to be able to do it farther, and so i stayed in this one huge rock in the middle of the river. He came back with a huge smile saying "yes!, it's there we're almost there!." I knew it was a lie. =)
Reasons why i had the strength to climb more was these, even my boyfriend had to lie that we're almost there when it is one kilometer more. I knew that after this 40 minute trek there's this amazing falls that will welcome me to not complain but ponder on what i see is the best of God's creation. I was completely swept after seeing this, i was truly excited to see Baler's Ditumabo Falls we can hear it by far.
and after all the complaints, it was truly worth the climb, you would want to stay for hours and not wanting to go down. It is the determination of each other that leads you to strive more. Jay was right, we're here half way there so don't give up i know this is not so much of those material things that they give with their girlfriends on valentines but this is more of that this are the moments to share with. It is the experience we had here together and will become a happy memory on this special day. All i whispered was "Thank you and I love you baby!"
Alright, so this is a wrap on this post as well, i'll go by the second adventure we had in SURFING on my next blog (not too long since no one took pictures for us while we both surf). This post is long as what i have expected and i'll continue the best part tomorrow. I promise.
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