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Going South at Mantayupan Falls

Since my sister and I have been too desperate to go on an adventure this summer, we "planned" (not really) to go South at Barili, Cebu and explore Mantayupan Falls. May 12, 2013 at past 10am we started our trip, I, my sister, and her two childhood friends. From Parkmall Mandaue, we took a taxi bound to South Bus Terminal. 

It wasn't stupidity nor ignorance that made us forget that the next day is Midterm Elections and that when we reach the terminal we were so overwhelmed seeing a sea of people flocking the Terminal just to go back in their hometowns and exercise their right of suffrage. (0_o) Ayoko ng ipagsiksikan ang sarili ko -- a pitiful remark.

I contacted a friend who's from Barili and asked her another way how we can get there before the sun sets:)

And so, we rode a taxi from South Bus Terminal to Gaisano Tabunok. And from Tabunok we rode a multicab bound for Carcar City. From Carcar City, we hired habal-habal to Mantayupan Falls.

You think it was an easy and cheap ride? NO!!! (intense)

The trip from Gaisano Tabunok to Carcar was like more than an hour? Of course, Carcar is two towns (Naga and San Fernando) away from Tabunok. When we reached Carcar proper, we should've rode multicab going to Barili and then take a habal-habal from Barili proper to Mantayupan Falls which is another 30 minute ride. Instead, we negotiated a habal-habal driver to give us a ride from Carcar straight to Mantayupan Falls for another 30 minutes.

So, for like P200.00 fare heading to Mantayupan Falls it was a nice choppy ride though.

         

Seeing the falls gave me this look ( O_O )  hehe... Yeah! Nature really has its own way in surprising us. The falls remained untouched and is still a public  hideout from a week's stress. It was really amazing. God is just amazingly creative! Years from now, I wish to go back from the place and hoping to feel the same ambiance. Pure, relaxing, and wonderful. It was a great stop.


                                

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