Busay

Can't still have a good grasp of it # the mighty sun has been playing so elusive since the first of August, had given  Manila daily burst of massive rain, not less than 3 typhoons, torrential/monsoon serious flood BUT!! yesterday 'till today_  the sun has been up and shining !!!! Are you kidding me?? After I had cancelled two scheduled trips for this month, now you're giving me this " beautiful beach weather". Nohurtfeelings. I heard another typhoon is coming, so really I'm just happy to wake-up with the sun beaming at me, which is a rarity now a days.

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I'm just saying.. my last out of town was as old as the last time a whole week the sun continued to show. As far as I can remember, that was like sometime in June this year. Cos after that, it has been all raining and just small peeking of the sun, and the only place I've been to were malls' supermarkets to buy groceries. then stayed home under roof being hammered by the heavy downpour of the rain_everyday!

Sometime in June, we had our short visit of my hometown and before exiting, we decided to eat our lunch at one of the countless waterfalls/river resorts a little bit away from the town.

See how cheap the entrance fees are.

From that opening, we walked and passed some houses, really rural. I enjoyed some rustic scenes like the kid bathing himself in a basin. He didn't care at all about a bigger body of water just across his house which was the resort we were going. Or maybe, he had too much of it already.

Few feet across that little boy in the basin, there was this man made small bridge with water flowing on it.

It wasn't a pass thru bridge where one can walk to reach the other point. It was more it seemed a water container. Unseen from the photo above, there were couples of women washing clothes right at this spot. Making use of the free flowing water. This also served as the entrance of the resort.



From up there, we went down and this what caught us in surprise. One solid massive rock with water flowing happy. For P20 entrance fee, where could you steal such a nature treat, if not in gifted rural town such as Guinayangan Quezon.

We couldn't help ourselves and went straight up to the rock.

The water was coming from the river behind the rock. I wasn't so solved about the staircases. They lessen the rustic appeal of the falls and made them looked  man made. In fairness, they made going around the falls real easy.



Neither the painted stairs appealed to me.



That time, the resort was relatively had just opened for business. We also caught some locals having photo shoot for the beauty contest of their barangay fiesta.

The place spelled nature kiss. We almost forgot why we dropped by there. Not to swim! We didn't bring any swimwear.

But to eat our packed lunch!!! We weren't asked to pay for the cottage since were just there to eat and not to swim. Yah, I looked funny there,haha,



Nothing could beat a nature stop when you're up for a long road trip (like 5-6 hours) back to the tiresome city.

Fiesta 2012

Happy 

Fiesta

Guinayangan

Quezon !!!!

aww, i missed it again :(

see more of my beautiful hometown
 flourishing with eco-tourism potentials
here




or

experience it through my Guinayangan holiday posts :

railroad skates
karnabal
hidden gems around
busay 1
beach paradise
palm trees
pasko sa amin

Rural Skates

I didn't know the existence of a railroad in my own hometown until  I saw the photos of it from my hometown's blog site/ The Guinayangan Republic. I actually haven't ridden a real train running in a real landed railroad yet. The closest I've been were the MRT's in Manila and in other Asian cities I had visited. So during my most recent visit of my hometown I nudged my brother to bring us to the railroad site.

Since it was just a very short visit as usual, I wanted to maximize the time by hitting to see more than one to three destinations at once. With water falls, cave and the railroad in mind, he decided to bring us to one of the scenic barangays in Guinayangan called Danlagan . After the cave and the falls, we begun our rail road trip..

.. riding not on a train but on a rural railroad skates. That railroad was so busy with skates, we experienced a heavy traffic. It's a one way traffic, so we had to wait while the one ahead of us was loading or unloading.

But a skate coming from opposite direction, given that its load was lighter than the other _ the driver had to give way by lifting it off the tracks, waited at the side until the other had passed by, only then that it would be returned to tracks.



Either powered by a gasoline fueled engine or manually run by foot, the "skates" are actually makeshift wooden trolleys. They are intentionally made never heavy for the very purpose stated above.



It's a lot more than just a passenger vehicle. .

The ride was made more enjoyable by the scenic rural scenes we saw in every little barangay we passed by. .left to right and v.v.

elevated and open nipa hut

salon/spa anyone?

 clothes+grains sunbathing

I was particularly mesmerized by this sight..

..as we go nearer, the shape got more vivid..

. .but I got lost when we were actually passing thru it.

My favorite thu' was the vintage railroad bridge which is deserving of a separate post ( I shall..)

We got off at the end of the bridge ( we were the last to get off) with a plan to take the bridge back by foot and would just ride the next skate available at the other end of the bridge.

but we all got shaky by the height of the bridge off the water beneath and was worried about the delay we caused the incoming skates. 

So we rode the same skates that brought us in here to get back to our departure site.

The fare. For that joy ride, it was P50 for five of us (including return).

Well, told ya_ it's more fun to skate in the Philippines ;)

Flora & Fauna Expo

Ascertain Bliss came to glance a flora and fauna expo held at World Trade Center last week_The Philippine International Flora and Fauna Green Living.


Was happy and proud to find some photos of my home town's community blog _ Guinayangan Republic on exhibit in the Klub Natur's booth.

see more of these photos on Guinayangan Republic's blog site. click here to visit the site.

After a short stop at Klub Natur, we continued to explore the expo and found some interesting fauna booths.

Philippine breed snake

Palawan bear

There were some animals indigenous to Philippine fauna.


The bees' buzz intrigued us and made us stop longer than planned.

delicious and healthy honey, ready to replace risky table white sugar

bee wax, a popular ingredient of lipstick

No flora nor fauna, these rechargeable bikes caught our interest. No gas needed and off to go to your destination.

electric chargeable bikes for sale

Environment- friendly bikes that say no to hazardous air from gas powered motorcycles. For sale for P23 k per unit.

We actually arrived at WTC an hour less, near the closing time of the exhibit. That's to say we didn't have enough time to catch all the greens of the expo. Nevertheless, with that short span, we were able to learn more things about nature and appreciate the wonders of our Philippine fauna and flora. able to score some organic loots too. Happiness;D