Philippines: Rainforest, Bacolod City

Mountain Trekking is a passion that everyone will eventually enjoy. Rainforest are unlikely place to take a peaceful travel, but a nature tripper considered it as a haven and sanctuary. Do not forget your digital camera tho.

An hour of travel from Bacolod City, Philippines takes you to a town called Alang Ilan also located in the town of Bacolod. A 2 hour hike will take you to the majestic base camp of Campuestuhan. Located on the boundary of Bacolod City and Talisay City in The Philippines. Before arriving at the base camp, an inclined approx 4 km of rocky road with lush and tall grasses by the side of the path will fill your eyes. Best time of the year to take a hike in this place are months where not so much sunlight and rainfall are available. The time that we arrive in Base Camp, it was noon and a gradual rainfall since the morning had brought us into an occasional fog wherein it will occur in minutes then it will disappear. The whether really had to put up something to change the mood in that place. We had set up our camp and take a rest till the next day.



We had planned to go to what they call Tinago or Tinagong Dagat, it is an extinct volcano that was so long extinct that trees of old ages grew on the inside of the crater. The base of the extinct Volcano and added to the inactivity for I think hundreds of thousands of years ago had housed a football field like moss.

Unfortunately due to the bad weather and a nonstop rainfall, townsfolk's who had been long living in that place never permitted us to go inside Tinago because of the natural topography of the place that when rain falls in large amounts, the crater is filled up with up to 4 feet of water.

On the Following day. We had decided not to go forward but instead go to a hidden falls where we could take a bath. In the unlikely event that fate brought us, the path to the hidden falls was destroyed by the damn that is supplying the parts of Bacolod City. We will be planning to do a nice trek next year and this time lots of preparations and info on climactic change must be planned. But so far its all right cause We had the urge to go back and do it again. 


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