Hiking matters #411: Mt. Mantalingajan Traverse Day 4: Crossing the mountain range to Brgy. Malis, Brooke’s Point
The view of Magringgit Peak is a visual souvenir of a challenging day PUERTO PRINCESA – Continued from Hiking matters
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Hiking matters #410: Mt. Mantalingajan Traverse Day 3 – Paray-Paray campsite and the summit assault up Palawan’s highest peak
PUERTO PRINCESA – Continued from Hiking matters #409: At Paray-Paray campsite (In 2008 I used ‘Palay-Palay’, which was how my
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Hiking matters #409: Mt. Mantalingajan Traverse Day 2 – From Cabugan to Paray-Paray campsite
PUERTO PRINCESA – Continued from Hiking matters #408: Hiking in the rainy season makes one conservative in terms of the itinerary;
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Hiking matters #408: Mt. Mantalingajan Traverse Day 1 – From Brgy. Ransang to Cabugan campsite
PUERTO PRINCESA – Six years after I first climbed Mt. Mantalingajan, the highest mountain in Palawan, I came back, this
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Hiking matters #406: Mt. Bloomfield in Sabang, Palawan: The mountain at the gateway to Puerto Princesa Underground River
PUERTO PRINCESA – Palawan is truly a hiker’s paradise. Yesterday, two weeks after I did the beautiful Mt. Beaufort (Hiking
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Hiking matters #405: Beautiful Mt. Beaufort in Puerto Princesa, Palawan
PUERTO PRINCESA – I have often lamented that I couldn’t find time to go hiking in Palawan, where the mountains
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Hiking matters #403: Hiking up Mt. Agung in Bali, Indonesia via the Pasar Agung trail
BALI, INDONESIA – After the successful hike of two volcanoes – Gunung Batur in Bali (Hiking matters #400) and Gunung
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Hiking matters #402: Mt. Rinjani Day 2 – To the summit and back
LOMBOK, INDONESIA – The summit assault is the most exciting part of every climb, because it is the moment when
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Hiking matters #401: Mt. Rinjani Day 1 – From Sembalun village to Plawangan campsite
LOMBOK, INDONESIA – The day after we hiked Gunung Batur in Bali (see Hiking matters #400), we took the eastward
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Hiking matters #399: Blue Mountains bushwalking, Part 2 – Wentworth Falls and National Pass
BLUE MOUNTAINS, AUSTRALIA – We are now prepared to head back to Sydney after three amazing days in the Blue
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