Thanks to a great opportunity from my company, I was posted to Manila for a work attachment for 6 months (similar to my stint last year in Indonesia), and that means more travelling opportunities in a foreign land! In the blink of an eye, I’m already onto my 2nd weekend in Philippines. On each separate weekend, I managed to escape the concrete jungle of Manila into less crowded towns. On the first Sunday, together with 4 other friends, I took a sneak peek into the hiking scene in Philippines. At an unearthly timing of 1am, we took a pretty arduous journey with a bus-jeepney-trisikad-van combination into Lobo, Batangas, some 4 hrs away from Metro Manila. That’s where we begun another 2 hr hike up to Mt. Nalayag, where splendid views of the ocean and neighbouring high
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