As we conquered the majestic Mt.Pinatubo during the valentines day of 2016. The experience was extraordinary for me and my husband Nuel. It was our first time to go out together in this kind of adventure after seven years of being a couple.
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| Selfie at Mt.Pinatubo crater lake. |
Being married for four years our relationship seems just a typical husband and wife. We live to earn for our daily expenses. We go out in the mall with our kids, buy the stuffs that we need, then go home. We seldom date each other after our wedding. It seems boring, right? But don't get me wrong...we have a happy family, we just forget dating for a while and concentrate in our responsibilities as parents to our children.
Until such time that he went home from his three years contract in Taiwan. Before his homecoming, we been talking to go in Palawan with the kids. But because of practicality (again!) we decided to just buy a car for our family. Case settled, we cancelled the Palawan trip. And I honestly feel bad.
My husband know how outgoing I am. I know that he missed me so much. So in exchange to Palawan trip I decided to book Mt.Pinatubo trek for the two of us since it is more affordable and it will only require us one whole day.
Celebration of life, love and success.
Our Mt.Pinatubo adventure was celebration of life, love and success as I finished my Certificate in Teaching last February 12. I inquired the available slots of Mt.Pinatubo Adventure Phils. and their only available was February 14 (yehey instant valentines date for us!) And since my birthday is approaching (Febraury 17) our trip became triple celebration.
Knowing how much he loves me and with the "celebrations" that I mentioned above...I knew it, he said "YES" to me when I asked him to go with me in this adventure.
And so our adventure begins...
From Zaragoza, Nueva Ecija (his hometown) we rode a jeepney going to Capas, Tarlac.
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| Selfie at the jeepney. We are "selfie"couple you know :) |
Since we are both first timer in Capas, we first looked for the meeting place that our coordinator told us, the Mcdo Capas Junction. Took quick snacks and looked for nearest inn, hotel or resort that we can stay for the night of February 13. Luckily, few meters away from Mcdo, there is the VES Garden Resort...so instant "staycation" for us! Yipeee!
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| Our "love ko 'to" moment. |
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| How can we forget the villa number 5 of VES Garden Resort #love |
We enjoyed the night of February 13 in the said resort. My husband had a quick gym routine in the VES Fitnes Center and right after he accompanied me in the pool area for night swimming.
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| My hubby during his gym routine. |
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| Me at the poolside. |
We highly recommend the place for short stay before your Pinatubo adventure.
The adventure
We're ready at 3am of February 14 for our Mt.Pinatubo crater lake adventure. From VES we walked going to the Mcdo Capas Junction and waited for our service going to Sta.Juliana, Capas Tarlac. Since we are only joiners, we joined the team and registered at 4am in DENR station at Sta.Juliana.
We were grouped by five in Kuya Danny's home, signed necessary permit and documents. And there you go, we experienced the bumpy ride in 4x4 from DENR station to the Mt.Pinatubo.
The 2 hours 4x4 bumpy ride was really fun. It's like a racing of 4x4, everyone wants to go first. And since we have the "most astig driver" all the water splashes to us as we traverse the way going to Mt.Pinatubo crater lake. I can't stop my self to said "wow! astig mo kuya!" every time our service go down and up in the road.
Since we left the DENR office at 5am, we did not see the view going to the crater, but when the sun shines...wow, the place was really amazing! Parang wala ako sa Pilipinas.
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| Our service. |
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| The amazing view going up to the crater. |
On our way, we met Aetas and have some "selfie" with them. The aeta kids greeted us with their cute smiles. We gave them food as reward...I wish I was able to bring books and clothes for them, but I will next time. Please bring some when you visit.
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| The aeta kids are so cute when they said "selfie!" |
Hmmm...when I saw this sign, I screamed and said "What? our trek will just start here? One hour na tayong naglalakad kuya." So, our guide explained that before all the 4x4 was able to reach this point but because of soil erosion, the way going up here was ruined. And that explain why the sign seems wrong.
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| Sign in the rest station. |
From the rest station we trek, 20 minutes, because we're senior citizen (as the sign said), going up to the majestic crater lake of Mt.Pinatubo. The way up is easy...although you have to be careful and watch your step because of slippery rocks.
The trek from the 4x4 station up to the crater lake was literally leg breaking but it was easier compared to my Mt.Pico de Loro experienced.
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| With our co-passenger in the 4x4, we actually don't know them personally but we took this as our remembrance as a team. |
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| Us in the welcome signage od Mt.Pinatubo Crater Lake. |
Since our teammates were all extremist we were able to come first (among the other group/tourist) in the crater lake. We have this opportunity to take photos without any photo bomber in the background. The other guest was not able get clear photos from the welcome signage because many groups had arrived and busy taking photos in the background.
There you go...finally we arrived in the majestic, amazing, beautiful crater lake of Mt.Pinatubo. The place was really "beautiful disaster" as mentioned in the movie of KatNiel, Crazy Beautiful You.
All the weary was gone just by looking at the beautiful scenery of Mt.Pinatubo crater lake. This valentines date was the best so far. This advance birthday celebration is really amazing. This graduation gift is really wow...thank you G!
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| Even the Mt.Pinatubo crater lake is in hearth shape. |
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| Few of our pictures in the crater lake. |
If you would ask me the activities that you can do while at the crater lake...hmmm, you can have sort of "kulitan' with your partner (the usual us) or the gang (if your with barkada). But the things that we really did are, have some picnic in the side of the crater and afterwards, think how lucky we are to witness this paint like scenery and imagine how it exploded years back. Imagine, all the beauty that we saw was a product of that volcanic eruption years back. Tragedy that resulted to this beautiful scenery. Indeed a beautiful disaster!
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| Our picnic kind of date in the Mt.Pinatubo crater lake. |
Experiencing Mt.Pinatubo together was an amazing experience for us. It marks another chapter of our relationship as husband and wife. During that very moment, we already planned our next adventure, this time his birthday climb. May God permits that to happen.
That moment together will always be cherished as we conquers another page of our married life. He will be forever my partner...'till our next adventure hon! Thanks God for this wonderful experience.
If you want to experience the Mt.Pinatubo, look for Mt.Pinatubo Adventure Phils. for hassle free booking of your adventure.
'till my next climb!
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| My "YOLO" pose at the Mt.Pinatubo crater lake. |
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