Jan 15 2009
Hiking in the Philippines: An all-year round season
We don’t have snowshoeing in the Philippines for the simple reason that it is a tropical country. Winter in the Philippines is just cold but not freezing cold. The coldest we could get there is just 60 degrees.
The Philippines has many mountains to hike and one of them is Mount Banahaw which is where my hometown is located. Hiking Mt. Banahaw is a tradition during Holy Week Season where a lot of devotees and religious would perform some means of sacrifices by climbing the sacred mountain as it is also called.
I am not much of a hiker like my friend Bechai of San Diego Backroads. I never really hike a lot when I was in the Philippines except for few occasions where my friends and I decided to check out the spring where our town’s drinking water is coming from. It was indeed a good hike.
Hiking is one of the fun activities that you can do in the Philippines. The most common and popular places to hike are the Sagada and Mt. Pulag of the Mountain Province, Mt. Apo, Mt. Makiling and the infamous Mt. Pinatubo. And though I know all these places, it doesn’t necessarily mean that I’ve been there. But now that I am married to an outdoor-loving guy, I bet when we go back there… hiking one of those mountains will be on top of our “to do” list.
Additional Information:
Travel-Philippine.com
Bundok Philippines
I’ve never been to those mountains either Ruthi
I’ve just hiked in our local mountains in Negros, maybe next visit too since my younger brother who loves to hike is in Cavite now, and I believed he has hiked all those mountains in your list except Mt Pinatubo.