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Carpe Diem | Nature Trippin’

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June 17, 2018 (Sunday)

‘Twas a really fine Sunday morning, just a typical day wherein we usually spend time with our family. Since, today was the annual celebration for father’s day, I was doing things to prepare for our lunch that day; I was just starting to grill the meat that we will eat for lunch when Mafet called me. I answered her call but we are just answering each other’s question again and again, (I think the line was not so stable, that’s why we can’t hear each other) moments later, Nieleth called me again, this time, medyo nagkakarinigan na kami she was mumbling something that I can’t understand about “hiking”, “Gango”, “gear up for nature tripping” things like that. And then I received a text message coming from Bless saying, that we will have a picnic somewhere in Gango; behind the airport’s runway and a photo walk. Ibig sabihin, mag lalakad lang kami?! Starting where, and ends where, I don’t know.

I was in total disbelief, really, walang halong joke. I was like, “whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?”, “bakit ngayon ko lang nalaman ito?”, “dili ko prepared”, (I smell myself) “wala pakuy ligo and I smell funny” I literally utter those words. But when you are that kind of person, who loves adventure and want to explore some new places, I said to them that “I’m in” just like that.

Later in the afternoon…

We meet up at the convenient store just beside MU, at 2 pm. and then we start our unanticipated long journey. First, we rode a cab to get to Gango, building resources to meet up with Ella, prepared the things that we will bring there and then, we start our long hike. Our starting point is the Building Resources in Gango, and then we pass some fields, and some beautiful wild flowers that sprout just beside the pavement of the highway. We stop for a while to take some photos of the beautiful fields and flowers. After that, we continue our stroll, and then we pass a seminary it’s called “Dupim Seminary” in Gango, the landscape of the seminary’s front yard was astonishing, there are these (I think there are a dozen of these trees) ravishing trees in the seminary’s front yard, the branches of these trees form an amazing tree-arch. Before you can enter the front door of the Seminary, you need to pass under the shade of these trees. It’s amazing though, but we don’t have the chance to take a photo of that amazing landscape. I don’t know why, but we suddenly become shy of the place, I don’t know if it is us, or the place that made us turn back our heads and continue on our looooong walk.












I guess that was more or less 45 minutes when we arrive at the Gango Airport, we go straight behind the airport’s runway, where we found a beautiful green field, as we go deeper to the little forest where I don’t, know hundreds or more different species from the animal kingdom resides; a perfect example of a forest which is rich in biodiversity, there we find a small and shallow river (parang di naman yata maliit at mababaw iyon). I was afraid to enter the forest at first, I was scared that we might not find our way out, but the view inside that little forest was breathtaking. It was very peaceful, the only noises that you will hear, are the sound of the running water from the river, the chirping of the birds, and the cold, refreshing air. It was sure a very peaceful place.





We look for a nice place to stay and where we can settle down our things, we stay there for I think another 45 minutes, just talking about nonsense topics and just fooling around just like the good old days. I was just wondering that every time, we are together, we never ran out of things to say and things to talk about. And that’s what makes us inseparable.














After that more or less 45 minutes nonsense talks, we start taking photos on the things that captured our attention, that momentum really took forever. After an hour, we decided to pack our things up to go home, so, we begin again the looooooooooooong walk that we did earlier. It was pass 5 o’clock PM that day, we even captured the beautiful sunset when we are on our way home. And then, after a few moments of the endless walk, we finally get a cab to drive us home. It was a really good experience though, it’s tiring. Imagine, we walk for around 8 kilometers back and forth, duuh, it really gives me lot of body pain, but I enjoyed it though, I wonder when will it happen again.





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