| Page Views: 192 Last Visit to Province of Benguet: April, 2009 | "Perspire to Inspire" group on summit. by OH_DK - last update: Nov 12, 2009  |
We climbed Mt. Pulag | Mt. Pulag - VTers at the Summit |
YES we made it ALL 17 to the top of Mt. Pulag after first a tough 3-4 hours hike in rain to Camp 2, sleeping 6 hours in our tents, waking up at 3 am and hiking the last 1-2 hours to the summit with our head lamps.
Then it was time to relax and enjoy a fantastic sunrise from "top of the world" - this was definately one of the highlights of my Filipino trip.
We really perspired a lot going up the mountain - especially the only European from flat Denmark - and it was so inspiring to be part of this trekking group. We were 6 VT'ers in the group:
missmarianne, barbie_sunrise, queenn, jonXXX, kentski11 and OH_DK
It was not a difficult climb - we just followed a trail all the way - but it was very exhausting to carry all the luggage incl. tents, food and cooking stoves up to Camp 2.
If you want to see a funny video of the excited participants right after arriving to the summit and the sunrise then have a look at this link to queenn's video.
After the climb we went down to a little local village "Bashoy" where we donated clothes, schoolbooks/ tools, toys etc. to the locals, and had a fantastic party with them. They served food and rice wine for us, and after that we were playing games with the kids, dancing and playing traditional music - Chin (queenn) and I were chosen to dance the traditional dance!
Great event sponsored by VT. Thanks to Stephanie and VT for sending T-shirts and caps to this event!
You're welcome to have a look at my travelouges and videos too.
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|  | missmarianne and barbie_sunrise missmarianne was the main coordinator of this event - thanks a lot for all your work Marianne and keeping up the spirit. |
| These shoes was on Mt. Pulag |
| | The shoes in the "Perspire to Inspire" group After looking at the shoes here I noticed that I was the only one who had real hiking boots on - most Filipinos just used sports shoes and even 2 with just flip-flops on! ;-) |
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| Pros: | "Fantastic nature experience, great group" | | Cons: | "It was cold in the night" | | In A Nutshell: | "Great nature" |
 OH_DK's Province of Benguet Travelogues | | | | Title [Click to view] | Travel Year | Pictures | | Bus trip to Baguio and Mt. Pulag 1 | April, 2009 |  8 | | Bus trip to Baguio and Mt. Pulag 2 | April, 2009 | 5 | | Climb to Mt. Pulag, Philippines 1 | April, 2009 | 8 | | Climb to Mt. Pulag, Philippines 2 | April, 2009 | 8 | | Climb to Mt. Pulag, Philippines 3 | April, 2009 | 4 | | Bashoy community service 1 | April, 2009 | 8 | | Bashoy community service 2 | April, 2009 | 8 |
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nimato Tue Nov 3, 2009 06:23 UTC
what noble climbers you all are! nice photo of barbie_sunrise over a sea of clouds at mt. pulag! been there twice and still wanna come back. =) | barbskie Wed Jun 17, 2009 22:48 UTC
just checked your vedios going to Mt Pulag, and oh what an adventure! Can't keep off your fun with the Phil vter's :) The charity actions is very good. hat's off! | Dyesebel Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:38 UTC
Wow!What a great experience here Ove,very inspiring!I didn't know you also had community service there.If i've known,i would have sent something too. | missmarianne Wed Jun 3, 2009 16:20 UTC
OVEH.. TEYNxx for the wonderful introduction of our event.. |
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