"Don't let the locals fool you..." Top 5 Page for this destination Province of Bataan Warnings Or Dangers Tip by syllybabe

To go up to the cross you have two choices. You can drive up to the base and park your car there or, you can go up the steps from the bottom of the shrine.
The first time I visited Mt. Samat in 1988, I was with some friends, one of whom was mean enough to play a trick on us and told us that the only way to get to the cross was by walking up the steps. Not wanting to be left behind, I grudgingly went up with all of them only to find him with the car at the base when we got up there.
Karen, Dante and I took 2 American friends there last February and we really wanted to see them go up the steps. We knew it was going to be torture for them but we also knew Sensei would have been spitting mad if he found out he had been tricked so after the first flight, we called them back down.