7 HOLY WEEK 2013: SEVEN BEAUTIFUL CHURCHES IN MAKATI CITY FOR VISITA IGLESIA

Vista Iglesia: First stop, Mother of Perpetual Help Redemptorist, Baclaran (Except Baclaran, this is not in Makati) I never expect summer starts earlier than the usual time. As I remember April always kicks off summer season. And while the sun actively heating the country; it is also the sign of Holy Week festivities. Our Mt. Ugo climb happened to fall on Good Friday or officially Black Saturday so this could be our penance for the said event. However before our climb I promised myself to have Visita Iglesia as exchange for not telling my dearest mother about the climb. She warned me week before the climb not to go anywhere. I never tell...

8 PART II: HOLY CLIMB 2013 AT MT. UGO

Sunrise at the Summit of Mt. Ugo Day 2 | Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013 Everyone was still at the deep sleep, snoring. I understand because of mindboggling trek from Kayapa all the way up to the camp site. However my night is quite different, I never learnt what happened in Mt. Pulag. I only brought myself two pieces of jackets and pants and barely sleeping the frozen ground, no ground sheet, no sleeping bag – nothing at all. I was awake the entire night, shaking. The radiance of the earth showed up, multiple colours painted the horizon. I chose to go out and started to take a rare view of the sphere in an extremely cold dark ambience....

4 PART I: HOLY WEEK CLIMB 2013 AT MT. UGO

I haven’t yet explored mountains nearby Metro Manila, only few, and for the record I only conquered three peaks – two from Batangas and one in Bataan. Surprisingly twenty thirteen arrived and our grouped humbly surmounted the Cordilleras. Kick off was in Mt. Pulag last January 20 and consequently is Mt. Ugo since I wasn’t able to join for their Mt. Marami climb. I was already informed about Mt. Ugo and made my confirmation for another Cordillera mountain top challenge.  The group conducted pre-climb thru Mt. Marami but I refused to join for a reason. Here’s the part 1 of our Mt. Ugo traverse Kayapa – Itogon.  THROWBACK...