2NIGHTS / 3 DAYS via Akiki Trail, Doakan, Kabayan, Benguet
FIRST DAY :
9:00 a.m. Bus Ride at the Norton Bus Lines, Slaughter Compound, Magsaysay Ave.
2:00 p.m. Drop off @ Doakan Elem. School - Mount Pulag National Park - DENR Rangers' Office;
3:00 p.m. Start hiking the trail towards Camp 4, Eddet River Camp Site (5 kilometers);
4:00 p.m. Arrive at the Camp Site and Set up Camp... rest for the next day...
SECOND DAY:
5:00 a.m. Break Camp / Breakfast and prepare for the hike;
6:30 a.m. Start hiking the steep trail of Akiki towards the Pine Tree Forest Cow Country etc;
12:00 nn Lunch at the usual pit stop at the mossy, oak forest1:00 pm Start hiking again towards the grasslands
3:00 p.m. Rest at the grasslands and wait for the sun to hide
3:15 p.m. Start hiking towards Camp 3/ Saddle Camp
4:30/5:00 ETA Camp 3 - set up camp
You may even summit for a sunset or just go to the other hill ... the summit is about 20 minutes away...
THIRD DAY:
4:00 am. Coffee / breakfast
4:30 a.m. ETD for the summit
5:00 a.m. Summit
6:30 a.m. Descend
7:00 am. Break camp / breakfast
7:30 a.m. ETD towards Ranger Station
10:00 a.m.ETA at the Ranger Station Break
10:15 a.m.ETD for Ambangeg
12:45 noonETA at Ambangeg
01:00 pm ETD for Baguio
05:00 p.m.ETA in Baguio
Costs:
Guides' fee here is P1,800 : 7 persons
Bus Ride: P180 (?) or less (for updating... my memory slipped)
Entrance: P100 for Filipinos and $15 for foreigners (if you look asian, don't talk :-)
Green Fee: P 25 Camp Site Fee: P50/night/pax
Park Ranger Assigned: Ruben, 09195382119
Reservation still to Park Superintendent, 09196315402 - Ms. Emerita Albas
Should you need Baguio Adventure Guides as tour coordinators/guides:
get in touch with us at 63-928-737-1208:-)
Why we Travel by Pico Lyer
"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves.
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.
We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed.
And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again -- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more."
We "need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what."
I like that stress on work, since never more than on the road are we shown how proportional our blessings are to the difficulty that precedes them; and I like the stress on a holiday that's "moral" since we fall into our ethical habits as easily as into our beds at night.
Few of us ever forget the connection between "travel" and "travail," and I know that I travel in large part in search of hardship -- both my own, which I want to feel, and others', which I need to see. Travel in that sense guides us toward a better balance of wisdom and compassion -- of seeing the world clearly, and yet feeling it truly. For seeing without feeling can obviously be uncaring; while feeling without seeing can be blind"
(by: Pico Lyer on Why we Travel, March 18, 2000)
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.
We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed.
And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again -- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more."
We "need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what."
I like that stress on work, since never more than on the road are we shown how proportional our blessings are to the difficulty that precedes them; and I like the stress on a holiday that's "moral" since we fall into our ethical habits as easily as into our beds at night.
Few of us ever forget the connection between "travel" and "travail," and I know that I travel in large part in search of hardship -- both my own, which I want to feel, and others', which I need to see. Travel in that sense guides us toward a better balance of wisdom and compassion -- of seeing the world clearly, and yet feeling it truly. For seeing without feeling can obviously be uncaring; while feeling without seeing can be blind"
(by: Pico Lyer on Why we Travel, March 18, 2000)
