Thursday, October 02, 2008

Famy Laguna the second time around.

For the second time around I went back to Famy Laguna to spend my weekends with nature. Famy Laguna is about 2 hours trip via bus f rom Juction, Cainta Rizal. With me are my friends from others sites of the company with their friends.
The plan was to meet-up at Robinson’s Cainta at 1pm but as you know we Filipino’s have the habit of the "Filipino Time", you know what I mean guys. So I arrived first at the meeting place at exactly 1pm with no faces of members of the group until around 1:45pm. The bus going to Infanta usually passes by the area every one hour. We were able to take the bus at around 4pm.

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We made a stop over at a certain barangay of Laguna for about 30 minutes. There are a couple of small restaurants around the place where travelers from far places can stop and have a quick break before continuing their journey.

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We arrived at the jump-off site at 6:00pm for registration and had to prepare all our things before starting the trek. Few minutes after arriving at the camp site another group of hikers arrived for the same purpose. It was already dark and the sky wasn’t clear and looks like we are about to get wet on our way to the camp site. We had to get our flash lights out and some of us had to change our clothes.

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We were expecting that the trek would be more difficult than before since it's a rainy season, but we were wrong. The previous trek was muddier that it took us about six tiring hours to get into the campsite accompanied by heavy rain pour on our way to the top and going to the campsite. But this time, the rain wasn’t that heavy and only lasted for about few minutes. I think it was a blessing that for the second time when we were almost at the peak of the mountain a freezing cold from heaven would welcome us.

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Finally after three hours we reached campsite and immediately unpacked our heavy loads and plunge into the river to wash ourselves from the mud. The water was freezing cold but we have no choice but enjoy it.

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