WAT Day 2 | Mimbalot Falls

The next waterfall in our trip is Mimbalot Falls situated at Brgy. Buruun, Iligan City, Mindanao, Philippines. This waterfall takes just a few minutes out from the city. 

As you can see, you can visit three waterfalls in Iligan in just one day. From my former post, you can visit Maria Cristina Falls, Tinago Falls, and this Mimbalot Falls without having to stay overnight in the city. 

So what does Mimbalot Falls has to offer? 
Well for a start, Mimbalot offers a great opportunity to see Iligan as the city of waterfalls. It features a 90 ft. water drop and 18 ft. wide facade (as Pinay Travelista says it). It also gives you the benefit of communing with nature without having to travel far from the city. Being developed by an entrepreneur, the place will gradually be known as adventure park offering zipline and cable car services. 

We didn't have the chance to swim its nature-made pool basins' because we arrived too late. We probably enjoyed Tinago Falls and stayed too long for lunch at Maria Cristina Falls. 

To get here requires a jeepney, about 15 php per head to Brgy. Buru-un and stop at the Iligan City National School of Fisheries. An off-road trail will lead you to Mimbalot Falls around 10-15 minutes.

Day 1: Waterfalling Adventure Tour in Iligan

I am at Iligan City, finally!

I had to travel five hours by bus from my hometown to Cagayan de Oro then had dinner with a good friend who was now based in Surigao. After a few chit-chats, I was set to leave for another two hours ride to Iligan.

Woman Conductor at West Bound Terminal, Cagayan de Oro

This is my first time traveling alone west. Much has changed I can say, I was surprised to see bus companies such as the Rural Transit Bus Lines got away with gender-specific mentality as to jobs concerned, it was nice to see girls having to hold and provide tickets to their customers.

Two hours of glancing through the watch, I can finally see Iligan the way I saw it before, as an industrial town.

I never once imagined that the city is rich with quite a number of waterfalls. It was claimed that numbers went as high as 39, but only 23 was yet recognized as naturally-made. Hence, Iligan is also known as the "City of Majestic Waterfalls".

When I got to the busy part of the city, I began asking for questions from the people boarding the same bus. I asked for directions as to where the bus stop is, but to my dismay, the local-pretending lady failed to grasp my question, thus, leaving me hopeless in the city bus terminal.

Thankfully, after some few inquiries with the tourism police force, a cute police girl with a short hair pointed me to the right direction. I wished I had asked her name so that I won't call her maybe...

But now I am in Iligan, having some great food and fellowship with other bloggers at Jacko's Kan-anan to try out three great dishes!

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I'm going to The Waterfalling Adventure Tour in Iligan City!

Okay. So I am finally done with my weekend at Davao for a blogging seminar when a friend at Bukidnon Bloggers asked me if I could present as a guest blogger in Iligan City for the first Waterfalling Adventure Tour hosted by the Iligan Bloggers Society in celebration as well with the Diyandi Festival 2012.

My thoughts were nothing but excited. Okay, a bit vague there, but I have to say that I am excited because I want to relive my experience with a city I am lost to explain. I have been in Iligan twice my life; the first visit was when I was around 10 years old and the second time was when I visited Maria Cristina Falls on a field trip. During those two visits, my travel itch wasn't mature enough to make an archive of been there - done that. Thankfully, in a few days, I am happy to be part of an event which I am surely secured to know Iligan far better.

It is said in the newsletter that fifteen bloggers will be joining an adrenaline-pumping event filled with mouth watering food and heart thumping celebration of the Diyandi Festival. Additionally, IBS noted that there will be a good worth of two-day physical-related activites for the adventurous spirit - this actually sold me to come.

The whole event is a 5 day invitational tour hosted by the Iligan Bloggers Society and made possible with the full support of the event sponsors: Tita Fannies, Red Planet / Calda Pizza, El Canto / Macki's, Iligan City Government, UNILAB, NPC Natures Park, Third Team Media, TravelJams, PurpleSlipperz, and Pinay Travelista.

Oh... can't wait!

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