Paglantuyan Falls Revisited! (Rainy Season) (January 14, 2017)

As I said on my previous post about Paglantuyan Falls, It is best to visit during rainy season (On the months of June-Feb) Well, we were amazed by the falls during our visit on January 14, 2017. Crashing cold waters awaited for us on that day. That gloomy, rainy, muddy Saturday was obviously well-spent.

By the way, me and my team mates have observed (in personal and in social media) that there are people especially millennials (aside from the locals of the nearby barangays where the falls is situated) are already visiting Paglantuyan, since it is free, we are hoping for their full respect to the vicinity of the falls as a simple payback, I hope they don't vandalize or leave their trashes all over the place.

Itinerary to Paglantuyan Falls

Via Brgy.Victory Jiabong Samar

7:00 am-Wake Up/Prepare
7:30- Breakfast
8:00-Take a bath
8:30-Prepare things/wait for your companions
9:00-Ride a jeep to Jiabong (You can ride a bus as well if you want to save time)
9:15-Hop a habal-habal to Brgy.Victory (fare 50 pesos)
9:40-Arrive in Brgy.Victory (Ask the driver to driver to drop you to the trail to Paglantuyan Falls)
9:45: Look for a guide
10:00- Start walking to the falls
10:30-Arrive in Paglantuyan
12:00-Lunch
2:30-Prepare, clear camp
2:40-Start hiking back to Brgy.Victory
3:10-Arrive in Brgy.Victory
3:20-Ride a Habal-Habal back to Jiabong
3:40-Arrive in Jiabong and wait for a Bus or Jeep back to Catbalogan
4:30-Arrive in Catbalogan

Things to remember:

 If you happen to encounter farmers, state to them that you are going to Paglantuyan Falls so that they won't be suspicious about you or to your group (If you decide to go there solo or without a guide)

Paglantuyan Falls does not belong to Brgy.Victory or to Jiabong, legally speaking, it belongs to Brgy.Calantawan of Motiong Western Samar (The falls is the boundary between the two towns ) So if you post or blog about it, address it to Brgy.Calantawan Motiong, Samar
and there might be a time where using the via-brgy.victory route will not be possible anymore so using the legal via-calantawan trail just awaits for your feet in anytime (See my previous post about Paglantuyan Falls on the ITA via-Brgy.Calantawan)

  From the rice paddies with love

    After the decent from Brgy.Victory, you will encounter this stream first and on the left side is the trail to Paglantuyan, Yes! you will step on these rocks but don't be too confident on setting foot on them, they get slippery on rainy days.

  While most of us were wearing a pair of shoes and hiking sandals, this young thug looks like she's going to skate at the park with her Vans.

Yours truly posing as a yoga master?

Meet our Trail Master, Jim

The "Baktas King" Lawrence

Sponsor us Deuter, Gelert and Ground Zero hahaha

Surprise! said Paglantuyan

Your Majesty!

Closer look

Setting up our camp

 Happy Kid, Wendy Basal

Pangaon!

It's always their moment cause I am the one taking pictures haha.

Finally, my very own moment of "pa-Kodak"

Posing as super heroes (except for one haha)

Feelin' the moment (except for one hahaha)

Ghostly heads at Wendy's back

A landslide on our campsite

A great reward after a week of hard work in school (Oh really?? hard working??)

 You  will pass through these small rice paddies to and fro from Paglantuyan

 Do not pick the palay plants or step on them, you know there's a saying na "Ang Matanim ay Hindi Biro"

Ascending back to Civilization.

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