Month: June 2018

FoodVentures: Foodtrippin’ in Jeju, South Korea

It’s been a while since I posted anything related to food on my blog. Even my monthly foodventures posts stopped, and I’m not quite sure when I’d be able to get back to it. I do miss posting about food, but I tend to go to back to the same place repeatedly if I liked it, so it doesn’t make sense to keep blogging about the same food place, don’t you think? This time, though, I just have to talk about the few foodventures we had during our trip to Jeju, South Korea more than several months back.

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The Longog Cave in Balakbak, Kapangan, Benguet

The other day, on the way home from two days of chasing waterfalls, I found myself on familiar roads, and not just because it happens to be in Kapangan, my father’s hometown. There was the Amburayan Bridge where I rappelled off of some years back; the roadside store-cum-coffee stop where we leisurely waited for time to pass… and then I was reminded about my most recent visit to the area, and how I haven’t made a post about it. Yet.

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Being Part of Art in “Art In Island” in Cubao, Quezon City

I miss the sun. Often we take for granted how the sun just makes everything warmer, brighter, that we complain when the day is becoming “too hot” or her glare is too bright for us to see anything. And then she doesn’t show up for a couple of days and we again complain why that’s the case, then start praying for her to come back, as if we didn’t shun and even curse at her before, when we were all sweaty and kinda dehydrated.

But with every raindrop comes rushes of remembrance, so that we recall things we thought were forgotten. Like that time we became part of art in “Art in Island”.

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Jeju, South Korea: Hiking Halla-san (Eorimok Trail)

The drizzle seemed like a constant, albeit intermittent, coming in spurts every few minutes or so. But compared to when we first started our hike up Yeongsil Trail, the hike down Eorimok Trail was much friendlier, so we could afford to stow our raincoats away and take a leisurely stroll, so to speak, largely pretending there weren’t droplets raining on our parade, so to speak. Because isn’t that what we all should do? Keep walking, keep moving, forward, until we reach our destination.
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Jeju, South Korea: Hiking Halla-san (Yeongsil Trail)

So the plan went like this: wake up early, climb Halla-san via the Seongpanak Trail, reach the summit, then go down via the Gwaneumsa Trail. In my head, everything would go like clockwork, and we’d have climbed this esteemed mountain of Jeju and beheld the crater lake, or the Baengnokdam. Alas, it was not meant to be… not when Mother Nature herself decided to cry buckets of tears that day.

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A Day Hike Up Mt. Pigingan in Itogon, Benguet

Over the past several months, I have been high-key missing the great outdoors, specifically the mountains. It’s just that time was a bit short and there weren’t a lot of opportunities for me to do so. Or the lack of time made it so that I wasn’t able to spot those opportunities. But on one of those very few times that I actually bothered reading through my Facebook feed, I saw an event organized by The Cordilleran Sun, and thought, “why the hell not?”

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