Next Stop: DENR Visitor Station

From the Victory Liner terminal in Baguio City, there was a chartered jeep that took us to the DENR Visitors Station.  (I forgot the name of the town).  It was a 4-hour trip.

We had 2 stop overs.  The first one was at the Ambuklao Dam.

The locals caught this really huge fish at the dam…

After the site seeing and photo ops, we headed to our next stop.  I, Allan, Trinka, Verchie, Winna, and Narod decided to go “top load” becuase we couldn’t bear the smell of the burning clutch / brakes inside the jeep.  Moreover, there were lots of bumping inside the jeep primarily because of the Formula1-style driving of Manong in the zigzag / dirt roads of Benguet.

Around 7:00 am, we arrived at Summer Place where we ate our breakfast.

Allan and I shared a plate of rice and a bowl of “Nilagang Baka.”  We also ate some of my Eng Bee Tin Beef Tapa (beef jerky).

After breakfast, we headed to the DENR Visitors Station.

At the visitors station, we attended an orientation about Mt. Pulag.  According to the orientation, Mr. Pulag is the 3rd highest mountain in the Philippines at 9,692 ft.  There are several trails to Pulag and 2 of them are Akiki and Ambangeg.  We’re taking the most popular trail – Ambaged. Akiki is a more traverse trail which takes 2 days to climb.

I’ve also learned that Mt. Pulag is famous for the Cloud Rat. Finally, there are a few rules that we have to go by. I can only remember 2…

• No alcoholic drinks at the campsite
• No sex outside the tent. Booo!!!