TAGAYTAY CITY - WEEKEND AND SUMMER GET AWAY FROM MANILA

Located just an hour drive from Manila, Tagaytay becomes a popular destination during weekend and summer.

Because of the cold weather and beautiful taal volcano lake scenery makes this city a popular weekend getaway.

Here are the list of my favorite activities in Tagaytay.


#1 - Taal Lake and Volcano

It's a natural scenery a volcano in the middle of a lake.

#2 Bulalo - Pinoy food

Bulalo is a delicious soup beef dish from the Philippines. It is a soup that is made by cooking meat shanks and marrow bones until the collagen and fat has dissolved into the acceptable softness and easy to chew. Bulalo is popular in Tagaytay because of its hot soup, beef meat all came from Batangas farm.

#3 Sky ranch

Sky Ranch is a carnival in Aguindaldo Roadway, Tagaytay City which opened in public 2013. It was theme park found inside Sky Farm, a property was possessed by SM company.

PICO DE LORO - THINGS TO DO IN PICO DE LORO MOUNT PALAY PALAY

This is our activities when we climb Pico de Loro. We spent 2 days and 1 night in this area.


#1 - Hiking - easy trail

An average of 2 to 3 hours spend on walking for the easy trail to reach the summit.

#2 Site seeing 

Beautiful scenery from the Pico de Loro summit

#3 Rappelling - Monolith rock

Bring your own rappelling gears and someone who knows well with this activity

#4  Camping

We spend a night at the base camp, we enjoy drinking at night and have a delicious breakfast in the morning. 

#5 Jump shot - beautiful background

Enjoy photography with different style, like this one using the 30fps of my gopro to captured a nice jumpshot pic with the beautiful bacgkground of Pico de Loro and hills.

#6 Side trip - Katungkulan beach

After hiking take a swim on this clean beach of Ternate, it's only near from the Pico de Loro jump off in Ternate Cavite, this is part of Marine Base Training Camp. The entrance fee is only Php100 ($2). No need to rent a cottage since we have our tent from camping.

7# Swimming / Underwater 

Enjoy the clean seawater and fine sand of the Katungkulan beach The current and waves are not so strong so you can enjoy your swimming skills. 

This is our activity when we go to Pico de Loro, regarding our transportation we just hired a private van that also spent 1 night at the DENR center. It's hard to commute from my observation because I didn't see any jeepney or tricycle, aahh there are some tricycle but it's too costly to rent. So if you are many to go here better bring your own vehicle.

KATUNGKULAN BEACH - TERNATE MARINE BASE BEACH - SIDE TRIP PICO DE LORO

One of the best side trip activity after hiking Pico de Loro is swimming at the beach. The nearest beach to Pico de Loro is the Katungkulan Beach, also known as the Cavite de Boracay, for its clean shore and blue waters.

 Clean waters just near from Manila  - Cavite de Boracay

Cool Native Cottages - Nipa Huts

Clean blue waters - Maintained cleanliness by the Philippine Marines

 Fine sand of Cavite de Boracay - Ternate, Cavite "Marine Base Camp Beach"

Katungkulan beach (Cavite de Boracay) is originally part of Marine Base Training Camp, and now they open the beach part to the public.

It becomes popularly for its close proximity to Manila, and now so expensive beach.

PICO DE LORO - BEGINNER'S TREKKING

For just around 1 ½ to 2 hours from Manila, a trek to Pico de Loro is getting to be more prevalent amongst Outdoorsmen and beginner explorers for simple to reasonable trail.

Trail is genuinely simple with easy trail. A few sections of the trail can be steep as well as secured in Bamboo foliage.

 One of the mountains that are becoming increasingly popular because of its close proximity to Manila. 

MONTANARA OUTDOOR GROUP OF RIZAL - PICO DE LORO

PICO DE LORO - RAPPELLING OR ABSEILING

Rappelling or Abseiling , is a climber's technique when going down when a rock or slope is too steep to climb down. This technique use a rope and tie it into a anchor, usually tress or boulders. Climbers also protection gear such as helmet, harness, and gloves.

Rappelling Monolith Rock - Pico de Loro

Beautiful Sunset and background - Pico de Loro Abseiling

Be careful!

PICO DE LORO - MONOLITH ROCK FORMATION

One of the famous and interesting object from Pico de Loro's summit is the Monolith rock. It is a 60 meters rock formation that becomes one of the attraction when climbing Pico de Loro.

 Monolith is a geographical gigantic stone or rock, for example, a few mountains, or a solitary extensive bit of rock put as, or inside, a landmark or building.

Beautiful MONOLITH Rock

Most the climbers here to rappel from this Huge Rock Monolith

PICO DE LORO - PARROTS BEAK

Pico de Loro was initially named by Spanish seafarers which signifies "Parrot's Beak" as its pointed summit takes after the shape or figure of a parrot's bill from far off and it is generally utilized as a sign via sailors as navigational reference to turn east to get to Manila Narrows.

THE CLOUD ENCIRCLING THE PARROT'S BEAK

 BEAUTIFUL SUNSET GIVING COLORS TO THE PICO DE LORO LANDSCAPE.