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Calbayog city, Samar
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CALBAYOG CITY AT IT'S FINEST

TARANGBAN FALLS

Worth the 1km trek! Vey beautiful and refreshing.

Very beautiful falls but quite the travel from Calbayog City. I should have read the reviews here first before going to Tinaplacan. We ended up renting a tricycle to get there which cost us Php400 (for 2 persons). There are actually jeepneys that travel from Calbayog to Tinaplacan for only Php40 for one person. Oh well... 

Travel time from city to Tinaplacan is from 45mins to 1 hour. After arriving in Tinaplacan, you will have to sign-in in their logbook and hire a tourist guide for only Php200. I recommend those who were trained as guides like mang Andy (oftentimes, because of many tourists, the organizers call tanods/barangay security officers and other civilians who were not trained properly to act as guides). After logging in and hiring a guide, you will have to ride a motorcycle or "habal-habal" for a 3 km. ride to Bangon Falls. 

MALAJOG BEACH
"3-way adventure"

"Three-way adventure". That was what our guide, Ate Reza, described our way to the zipline: Trecking, sort-of mountain/rock climbing, and of course the Zipline.
True enough, we had to walk 915 meters to get to the zipline which travels down to Daraga island. We had to go up, down, up and straight on the sometimes steep steps of the mountain.
One of the amazing things in this trail was that the developer preserved the rocks and the trees in the mountain. the path would go around the trees and its roots, as well as the limestone rocks.
Another amazing thing/person was our guide Ate Reza. she pointed out stuff like the hidden caves where the Japanese hid during WWII and knew the spots where we could take amazing pictures. :)

The sitting zipline costs 200 and the superman costs 300. the guides don't have a fixed rate though, so please give them their well-deserved tip.


GUIN-ON CAVE

De boattrip was amazing, beautiful scenery. After about 30 mins we arrived at the hot spring. There was a swimming pool and indeed a very small hot spring. Not very interesting in my opinion. We started chatting with some locals and they helped us translating with the boatdriver. He knew someone who could guide us to the cave.
It is about 30 mins walk to the cave. There is a little dam in front and if you want you can walk/swim into the cave. The walk through the jungle was beautiful too. Without a guide we would definitely have been lost.
The guide asked 200 pesos, but we paid him 100 and he seemed happy with this(not sure if this is a good price)

DARAGA ISLAND

Snorkelling OK but a rocky shoreline

I paid about P300 for a fisherman to take me 10 minutes from Samar island's coastline to this pleasant island, albeit that it has an extremely rocky shoreline.

The snorkelling was nothing special but I saw a small number of fish. Waters were clear. Sunscreen lotion was a must given the inecessant afternoon heat, although it did not seem to be very humid.



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