Our First Out-of-Town Trip Together

Hi! My name is Jason, 28 years old, and this will be my first blog!

Me and my girlfriend, Shiela, 27, been talking about summer tripping ever since our relationship has started. Due to our workloads and time conflicts, at last! After 2 years, our plan has come to reality!

The first place we’ve ever stepped foot together (away from our home town) is Iligan City. This place is known for its famous Maria Cristina Falls, the falls that provides the main electricity in the City and one of the best tourist spot in the Philippines!  

We arrived in Iligan City 23^rd of April,the year 2015. We were filled with excitement as we were arranging our itinerary for the whole week. This’ll be a fun full packed adventure!

We did jogging around the City’s Recreational Park. Went to the public market and enjoyed shopping down the street with Ukay-Ukay (Filipino term for that anything that’s used items coming from different countries). Tried haggling (that’s what I consider the fun part of shopping) for the items and succeeded!

Got my friends invited for the trip to the falls, and since some of them already been to Maria Cristina Falls, we decided to visit first the Tinago Falls, it is also a must-see place of Iligan City for its natural beauty and exhilarating current of water ranging from the top of the falls!

As you can see, going down the place is through a 436 steps of concrete stairs, it’s easy since you don’t have to use more of energy and muscles stretching :D

Pleased our feet as we stepped in and indulged in the waters of nature and the chance to witness the beauty and able to participate in the cycle of life J seeing birds, ants, fishes and other species enjoying the rawness and wonders of mother nature.

As we were enjoying the scene, we saw this little creature with multiple feet, centipede. Captured picture of it as it seems to bring joy in my eyes.

The chills I feel seeing the raft as we ride to the curtain of the falls Of course, for safety precautions, we needed to wear a life jacket in case we’ll be swift away by the water. And yes! It’s indeed a roller coaster ride for us who seldom experience this!

We didn’t lose the chance to have pictures with the rocks under and beside the falls, we sometimes needed to hold ourselves up to balance to have a good picture with it, and that’s a great experience! As if being one with nature.

We jumped off the falls’ cliff and dive into the water and kept swimming under and seizing the day!

It has been a quick yet memorable day to reminisce as soon as we needed to go home, and bid goodbye to the place. It’s a journey and adventure I’m sure I’ll love to remember and we promised to follow it with another road trip worth remembering.

Now, we’ve got lists of places we would love to visit and explore soon. Getting ready for it.

Will the experience and memories we had with our first trip together be more spectacular with the next spot we will step in?

Isn’t the place worth visiting? You can message me for the details on how to go there and experience and witness with your own eyes one of the nature’s best!