Pinto Arts Museum: Instagramable Museum

Time Check: 10:00 pm

Hello, travel pips! Hope everyone was able to discover new places to relax and hang out last year.

I was so busy last year (as always) that I was not able to update any of my pages. The work I had really is exhausting, sleeping and eating were the best things I did during my rest day.

I'll start sharing the things I discovered last year (also in my next post).

Let's start with Pinto Arts Museum.

I'm not really good when it comes to arts but, I just love going to the galleries, exhibits, and the like if I can (well, especially if it will not cost me anything). The museum is 1.2 hectares, one of the biggest and most spacious museums I've been to and the most instagramable one.

It houses 6 galleries plus a very close to nature (for me) as tall trees, bamboo, and plants cover most of its buildings. The places showcase contemporary, native, and emerging local arts. From paintings, sculpture, ceramics, photography, erotic, music name it they have it. 

I really love the ambiance of the place as it feels like you are exploring a garden full of artwork. If you get tired and want to rest a bit, they have beds and pillows anywhere in the place plus the benches in the big galleries are topped with thick foam so you rest comfortably (you can actually lie down). The museum also has its own restaurant in case you want to eat (I was not able to check this one since I was busy checking the galleries).

How to go to Pinto? 

From Cubao take an LRT and alight at Antipolo Station, then from there go to SM Masinag and ride an e-jeep to Antipolo Cathedral, ride a tricycle, and ask the driver to drop you off at Pinto Art's Museum. The entrance fee is 250 (discounts are provided to students, PWD, and senior citizens).

Hope you enjoy my new Rixcovery ☺. Until next time

Mt. Kulis Adventure

Time Check: 4:11pm

My Gosh! It's been 5 years since I last posted an adventure in my blog. I really had a rough time doing work plus hello pandemic.

At some point the Ph government decided to loosen the restriction to somehow bring the dying economy get back on its feet and one of those industry was the tourism that is why, I took advantage of it and look for a nice place to visit.

I've been in Tanay, Rizal for a quick tour however, I want to go back again and wanted to witness sea of clouds again. So after setting a joiner tour with my brother we pack our stuff and set off to check mother nature's beauty.

Our meet up point is on Cubao, Q.C at 1am. we arrived early so we decided to buy coffee and something to eat.

We set off to Tanay at around 1:30am, I'm a little drowsy so I decided to take a power nap so that I have enough energy later.

It's past 4 am when we arrived on the starting point. While waiting for our tour guide, we are preparing our stuff. 4:30am and we started the briefing, we are told what to expect, the do's and don'ts and the interesting stuff about Mt. Kulis.

Mt. Kulis was used as a setting in the going series of ABA CBN's FPJ's Ang Probinsyano. This is the setting where the actor Lito Lapid and his crew was hiding and where he was killed. This is what the tour guide told us.

I love the smell of the fresh grass and watch them as they dance with the wind, listening to the sound of the crickets and while looking at the peaceful view of place.

Since it was a minor hike we reached the first peak after the 35 minutes of walk. It was an achievement for me considering that I'm not a mountain climber the only thing I know is social climbing I enjoy the scenery and even did a tiktok challenge lol.

The route is easy according to my brother and he even encourage me to join mountaineering activities. Little did he know that it was actually in my bucket list. After 40 minutes of enjoying the view and taking pictures, we move to the next peak.

The place was also amazing and they even put attractions to make your picture very memorable.

After this we set off to the waiting area in one of the highlight of the tour, the Noah's Arc. It took us about 20 minutes before we received a go signal that we can now go to the place. The place was really amazing, not only that you can almost touch the sea of clouds, the spot has a lot of place and angle to take a good picture for Instagram. 

this is how near the sea of cloud is

This was below the bridge going to the arc

After having 40 minutes (which is supposed to be 30 minutes only) Noah's arc experience, we went down the mountain to have our lunch and go to the next part of our activity.

After a quick meal at the foot of the mountain, we waited for the 4x4 jeep that will bring us to our next destination, the hanging bridge. It was a 20 minutes ride. If you're still up for an adventure you can do a 45 minutes walk to reach the hanging bridge.

I think I saw a similar bridge like this somewhere in Bataan and in Cavite which make me want to check them out, hmmmmm another place and adventure to put on my bucket list. After the adventure we then go to the next and the final destination on our trip, swimming! Yep you read it right. We are going to dip in the cold man-made spring water pool.

Good thing we decided to pack our things earlier and I was convinced by my brother to take the 4x4 because if not, we are going home soaking wet. As soon as we arrived the starting point rain drops started to fall it took about an hour and a half before the rain stop. My brother took this opportunity to share his experience in mountaineering as he already joined mountain climbing adventure twice before Covid-19 stroke.

This is one of my travel adventure that is memorable as I did not expect that my brother will accompany me in this trip..

Budget for the trip including the food is P1,500 pesos that is why Mt. Kulis trip is...

 Hope you enjoy my new Rixcovery ☺. Until next time *winx*

Once a upon a time in Kalanggaman Island

Time Check: 8:34am

It’s been awhile since I posted something in this page. Well actually there were a lot of things that I can write however, I can't find time to write about it.

Anyway, I recently went on a vacation in an island somewhere in Palompon, Leyte. I was bored reading our training material on work one night of January this year so I decided to check on Cebu Pacific’s website. I found a cheap ticket going to Tacloban. Initially, I wanted to go to my father's town and spend a short vacation there but I just remember Kalanggaman Island was featured in Kapuso Mo Jessica Sojo. I immediately browsed the net (event if I’m not allowed to… evil me lol) and checked thing and stuffed about the Island. I find it very interesting so I booked the flight and planned the trip.

Most of the blog that I read mentioned that you can go to the island as early as 6am however, according to the staff of tourism office this trip is only for day tour. For overnight tour the start of the trip is at 11 am. However, you need to go to the tourism office as early as 9am to register because the boat will be first come first serve basis. Every boat carries fresh water from Palompon, you can ask for a container of fresh water from the boat staff when you arrived in the island (there are no fresh water in the island. They use salt water to flush the toilet).

We arrived in Kalanggaman at around 2pm. We immediately pitch a place to set up our tent. It’s so hot when we went to the island. No sea breezes that can help lessen heat. We literally are sweating a lot. We just sat outside the tent and observe the people around us. The island is so crowded maybe because its summer and its vacation season.

We decided to walk on the sandbar at 4pm. It’s 4pm but it’s damn hot. Good thing we brought an umbrella so we still manage to reach the farthest side of the sandbar. It’s time for us to take a photo and selfies of us without a photo bummer since we are the only one walking on the sandbar.

There is a store in island but the price is doubled as the regular price. They sell Popsicle sticks, soda, soy sauce (if you plan to grill). There is a stall that sells halo halo (100 pesos plastic cup) and grilled chicken, hotdogs and barbeque.

We took a lot of picture and videos while swimming. You can immediate post it in whatever social media you have because surprisingly there is a network signal in the island. Globe network is stronger than smart (so my unlinet is useless lol).

If you don’t want to sleep in a tent, there is a resort at the back of the island where you can rent a wooden tent that has comfortable foam to sleep on or a room with an A/C. When night kicks in, aside from listening to the crowd’s music, you can just lie down on your tent and watch the stars in the sky.

It’s good that I was able to visit the place while it’s still semi-develop. Why semi-develop? Well they are now constructing something in the middle of the island. It looks like a bar or a pavilion. Well, I believe the “be-one-with-the-nature” expectation will soon be gone. So if you are planning to go to Kalanggaman, book a flight now while it’s still semi-raw.

Kalanggaman Isaland you are soooooo

Hope you enjoy my new Rixcovery ☺. Until next time *winx*