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white water tubing in maitum

11/5/2012

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I no longer wonder why I enjoy being in water, or at least see a body of water. The fact is my body is composed of about 70% water and the earth’s surface is also around 71% water. As to why God made such distribution of the amount and composition of solid and liquid and gas in His creation, I may not know in my lifetime, but I thank Him profusely because with water, my thirst is quenched, my fresh fish tinola is 70% sweet-salted water, my t-shirts are water cleaned, and say it, it might probably have water or have used an amount of water.  We have coined “water words” such as watercan, water basin, water vapor, waterworld, iced water, waterloo.

And of course, we have white water tubing adventure in Maitum, Saranggani Province.
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Maitum is already in the southernmost tip of Mindanao, with Celebes sea crushing its coastline. (To see the “edge” of the Philippines is already an adventure itself!)While this town boasts of rich archaeological finds which date back as early as 5 B.C., recently it managed to turn its own Pangi River in Barangay New La Union into a white water tubing adventure. 


What an adventure! For one, it is ingenious to utilize these truck wheel interiors into inflated tube rides. And second, to ride the rapids and drop and float and drop – that’s 1.6 km in all – I don’t need to say more.

Ahhhhhhh woooooohhhh wooowww splaaaash splaaash woooooohhhh  splashhh gulppp ahhhhh!
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For you who are scared to try but want to try anyway, have no worries, you have someone at your back to maneuver your ride. And by the way, this is an adventure that requires trust and “go-with-the-flow” attitude. Just enjoy the ride and thank God for the river.

From the town proper, you may take a motorcycle or a tricycle for a 500-peso round trip. Make sure to enjoy the bumpy ride and the rustic greeneries. For your info, the resort offers overnight cottages and tents. You may contact White Water Tubing New La Union at 09103127772.


And please do not ever throw any of your wastes into the water. Protect it, preserve it, and be unselfish enough to let the next generations enjoy this water.

(Maitum is one of the 7 municipalities in Saranggani Province. While I thought that Eastern Visayas’ provinces are more popular and better off, wait til I had googled Saranggani province and revealed that 3 of 7 LGUs are first class municipalities, Maitum is 2nd class, and the rest are 3rd class. If not for Manny Pacquiao, we wouldn’t have heard of this place. And for me, if not for the Ardena family, I wouldn’t have been here for free. Thanks for the opportunity and a lifetime of memories. Some pictures in this post were taken by Twinkee’s dad.) 

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    boris p pascubillo

    he writes to affirm desiderata's with all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. he makes photographs to shoutout that when God created this homeland, He saw that it was good.

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