My Iloilo Travels and Beyond : Recreation

Hike to Brgy. Igcabugao Igbaras Province of Iloilo

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Looking for a place to go Hiking? waterfall dipping, spelunking, rock climbing or a place where you can experience nature to its fullest?

Igbaras is one of Iloilo's nature hub.

widely popular for it's mountains Mt. Napulak, Mt. Lobok, Mt. Taripis where you can find natural attractions such as various waterfalls, marble caves and rock climbing sites.

Overall Hiking Experience

It was awesome, and literally breath-taking (because of the thin air and the high altitudes. Heh? Heh?) Even though the place we went to was just as the base camp, the 3.4km hike to the top took us a lot of effort and perseverance our limits were put to the test, considering that most of us were amateurs.

For the beginners out there, Brgy. Igcabugao might be the best option for your first hiking trip. This was recomended by my good friend who happens to be a seasoned mountaineer.

When you get to the peak of Igcabugao, from there you have a variety of destinations to choose from. You can go spelunking in different caves, visits various waterfalls, take a dip at the underground river, go rock climbing and many more. I tell you, it is definitely worth it!

How to get to Brgy. Igcabugao Province of Iloilo

There are many ways you can choose from to het there, here are a few suggestions.

First Option:

You can ride an Igbaras Jeepney at Iloilo Super Market or at Mohon Terminal at Oton, transportation should be around 40 - 50 pesos per head. Instruct the Driver or the Conductor that you will Log-in at the Igbaras Police Station. (as it is required by the Dept. of Tourism)

Ride a solo-motorcycle going to Brgy. Passi Igbaras, the fare should be around 100-120 pesos. From there you can start hiking up to Brgy. Igcabugao. But if you want to go directly to the top you can still ride the same motorcycle for a total of 150 pesos per head from the town proper. And as for the trip down, you can either hike down by foot or ride a single motorcycle going back to the police station for log-out for another 150 pesos via single-motorcycle. Getting a tour guide is recommended.

Second Option

You can hire a private van or a local jeepney going to Igbaras.

First Login to the Igbaras Police Station and go directly to Brgy. Passi, from there you can either choose to ride a single motorcycle for 100 pesos or hike up to Brgy. Igcabugao on foot.

Duration of hike going up to Brgy. Igcabugai is 2 hrs. At most.

Places to go along the way to Brgy. Igcabugao

The popular Nadsadjan Falls - check google image for photos.

My Iloilo Travels is a blog by Reynan Lim featuring places, events, culture, business and more about Iloilo City and It's Provinces. He is not a good writer but he is inspired to share to the world through the internet the experiences of his adventure and the knowledge of what he knows about it.

Special Thanks to Bernard Anthony Pe for the official Editor in Chief of this Article.

Military Simulation Game of Airsoft in Iloilo City : (LAT) Lapaz Airsoft Team | A game of Honesty

Iloilo City is now rising from its feet, road projects and developments, rehabilitation of heritage sites and buildings along Calle Real are non stop. Business is visible in Iloilo and Iloilo means business so more foreign investors invest in the city. Just a few days ago Grab Taxi a launch their Mobile Booking App to Ilonggos to have convenient access in booking a taxi through mobile technology, same with the I AM Iloilo App which is now available in the Android App Store. The City is trying and moving at its best to provide safety to all and make the city a livable, walkable and bikable city in the Philippines as we speak.

Aside from all these road projects and developments. Here is a group of people or enthusiast who spends their Sunday afternoon playing a game called Air Soft. They said that Sunday is only our time to play this game because of work in our offices and many other activities during their weekdays.

Air Soft is a Military Simulation (MILSIM) game that uses full scaled replicas of real guns, except these guns are motorize or gas operated and uses 6mm round BBs made of hard plastic. refer to the image below. It also develops honesty by shouting HIT when the opponent or a friendly fire hits you.

Automatic Air Soft Gun of M4A1 - Full Scale Replica

I also plays air soft before, and I can say-I miss all the feeling, excitement, the adrenaline rush on playing the game. The game is simple: there must be at least two separate team that will try to accomplish their missions or objective, a death match game or a speed ball.

I was invited by my friend who's also my church-mate, he is a trainee of one of Philippines' trusted media. I joined him because we both like it and played air soft together 2 or 3 years ago. He actually influenced me on play air soft the first place.

There are many air soft teams around Iloilo, and we came up to meet one of them. The Lapaz Air Soft Team, one of the kindest team that welcomed us both the time we stepped down our Taxi. Their game site is located along Lapaz Ticud near Iloilo Gun Club Inc.

Lapaz Air Soft Team

We were welcomed by their Leader or "Tatay-tatay" or the head of command of the team. He also invited us to come play with them every Sunday just for fun. He introduced us to the rest of the team and showed us their team picture.

The team is also planning to host an international Air Soft tournament inviting foreign air soft enthusiast to play here in Iloilo City maybe this December year 2015-this is not sure yet. and also inviting other who wants to join and play, you are much welcome to join us every Sunday He added. after the first game we went ahead to ride a Jeepney back to the City.

With those few moment of time, I had a feeling of missing the thrill of playing air soft, and maybe one Sunday me and my friend can join them into their Military Simulation Game of Air soft.