tibak waterfalls

tibak waterfalls
Originally uploaded by dongperez

Locals calls this the kawasan falls of Tigib in Alegria, Cebu. They say that water from this falls goes all the way to the Kawasan falls in Badian, Cebu.

GPS: latitude=9.7424, longitude=123.3881

--panoramic stitching using autostich, cropped using paint.net
--GPS info using Nokia N95
--pictures taken using Olympus u770SW

trekking the tagba-o river

I went hiking with Alan and his officemates at Tagba-o river. We left JY Square Mall at around 10:30 on a pickup. The ride was around 45 minutes. We passed by Tops and then Ayala heights. We made a right turn on the corner of Transcentral highway and Taptap. Then from Taptap, we took a left at the road that goes to Tagba-o. This is one of farthest area of Taptap, I guess. From Taptap to Tagbao was all downhill. At one time, the road looks like Lombard St. except that there's now asphalt or cement :) The road ends at the Tagba-o river. From there, our guide told us to leave all our things at the car except for our food. Since most of us brought burger, gaan ra kaayo among mga dala. I didn't expect that we will be walking on water the whole time. We just followed the river upstream. Few meters away from where we started was the first falls. Naa dayun kaambakan. Naa pa gyud bato nga medyo taas (6-8 ft) nga didto ka puede muaambak. Water was 15 ft. deep, mao nga dili na maklaro ang ilawom and of course water was freezing even if it was already high noon. We took a dip at this point and saw a snake on one of the stones. Padayun mi ug saka, until we've reached the next falls - duol ra pud. Here, we took our lunch. Nice pud ang setting kay naa na pud kaambakan. I even tried to put in the water the gatorade bottle that I brought kay di man bugnaw :) At this point also, is a rock that has a hole under where you can dive and swim to cross to the other side of the rock. Nalingaw ko paglabang nako kay layo akong naabtan nga mubo ra man diay ang labngon. Then after few dips, we moved pataas na pud. This time mas lisud ang agiaan. You really have to cling on the rocks and make sure that you're holding a safe one otherwise you'll fall into the big rocks under, and the rocks are slippery pud. Nice kaayo ang next falls. It's bigger and stronger and there are holes in the rocks under the fall where you can hide and catch part of the waterfall. Going into these holes is quite difficult and going down is much harder because the stones are slippery. After few minutes, we climbed again to go to the next falls. This time, the rocks are bigger and difficult to climb. There was one part where we had to cross by hanging on to the rocks while hanging. Medyo lisud ni siya nga part, plus gialalayan mi tanan in climbing kay way klaro nga mapatungan ang tiil. Then we have to jump from one stone to another para lang makapadayun. Then, viola! bigger falls, place is much wider and view of the creek is much nicer. If we still have to go higher daw, the creek is flat na kay this is sort of the top of the creek na.

This is one of the nicest adventure within the city that I did here in Cebu. Check my page at Yahoo! 360 for pictures