Hello,
We are now at day 48 of our trip and a summary is needed:
- everything is going very well :)
- So well that I didn’t find much time to write here as all our new life is exciting and quite full on.
- out of 6 weeks we have camped with Agta people for about 3.
- the rainy season is now starting to finally go away which is good for our study.
- Only 2 attempts at crossing rivers out of 10 didn’t go as planned. Mostly because of the very heavy rains. Once we had to go back to town and the others half our stuff got wet but no big deal in the end. By the way, my preconceptions here were blown away, yes even with 1m of water a river can be very tricky to cross without falling.
- Internet is so slow in Palanan that checking emails takes 10 minutes and connecting our PC to Internet is not possible. I am planning to get a keyboard for my phone if I ever find one, 15 electronic shops so far and counting. So to contact us no FB or Twitter but:
kenavor@gmail.com- I have 4 articles nearly ready to be posted, which will be in the coming weeks when we are away from keyboard and close to the jungle :)
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For now, we are on holidays. We left Palanan and met my family in Manila City and flew to Legazpi in the South-East of Luzon Island. We gonna now tour the Philippines in the next two weeks and visit everyday a bit more of the country. As a starting point we went on a trek today on the Mount Mayon, the most active volcano in the World which erupts every couple of years or so.
As the trek went on we came across a massive field of volcanic rocks that formed from the lava. It was actually very hard to go on this moon-ish landscape and the rock break to gravels and roll all the time. Abbey’s legs now bear witness to lava being nasty even when cold…
After escaping the black field we reach camp 2 which is situated at 1200m of altitude. A beautiful landscape and rice meal later we were ready to go down.
Next adventure next time.
Love to all,
Wasabi.
