Destinations
Ang ganda mo,
Mindanao! Te x t b y A D E L A R O S L A N I m a g e s b y E D G A R A L A N Z E TA Y A P & Z U L H I L M I I B R A H I M
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To some people, travelling is all about seeing nice architecture, staying lavishly in private resorts, or watching beautiful cultural dances. But to me, travelling is all about mountains.
It has always been a dream of mine to hike every mountain all over the world and see the view from above. I’ve been hiking countless mountains before and for this trip, it was to summit Mount Apo, the highest peak in the Philippines, which
has been beckoning me for some time. I wondered why it is called Mount Apo,
which sounded masculine – it might be more fitting to call it Mount Lorraine or Mount Christine instead because of its sheer majesty that forms like a sleeping
beauty around the city of Davao. But let’s not get too deep into that because the
most important thing is the experience of being with nature. It was like being in
the movie “Everest” but in a rather small way, and without snow and avalanche, of course.
