First Hike of the Year 2016: Mount Tagapo

Mount Tagapo

(438+ MASL)

Binangonan, Rizal

January 9, 2016

Mount Tagapo is located at Brgy. Janosa, Talim Island, Binangonan Rizal.

And this was my first hike for this year.  Our meeting place was at EDSA-Shaw blvd at four in the morning. We were 16 in the group that we were able to fill up a whole van going to Binangonan, Rizal port area.

It was still dark when we reached the Binangonan port. 

So we decided to eat breakfast first and had a short visit at their church. 

By the way, van fare is 50 pesos per head.

When the sun was already rising up, we then rode a boat going to Talim Island. 

Boat fare is 30 pesos and travel time was about an hour.

Beautiful sunrise welcomed us.

Registration fee is 30 pesos and then we took a trail guide.

Reaching the summit took us more than two hours since some of us were beginners in mountain hiking.

Of course, the view from above didn’t fail us.

At the top we can see the Laguna and other provinces of Rizal like Pililia and Tanay.

Other mountains like Mount Sembrano, Susong Dalaga and Pililia Windmills can also be seen from the top.

We then took our lunch on the camp site.

 Going down was a bit faster. We did that in more than an hour. The mountain was grassland so the trail wasn’t that hard nor technical.

We then rode again at boat going back to Binangonan Port.

We then had a side trip to a nearby resort.

From the resort, we took a jeep going to Antipolo crossing then took again another jeep going to Cubao.

It was a fine day with my friends. I so love mountains and this was just the start of my hiking/adventure for this year.

 

the mandatory groufie at the summit. :)