Mount Ayngat and Aspican Falls

Nov. 2018 | Tanay, Rizal

I miss mountains so I accepted the invite of my friend for a Saturday day hike.

We were five in the group and our destination for this fine day was the Mount Ayngat located in Tanay, Rizal.

Its nearby mountains were the Mount Maynoba and Cayabu which I already hiked last 2016.

Registration fee as of this writing is Php. 100 per head.

Guide fee is Php 500 good for group of 5.

After paying and securing guide, we started the hike at past 6 am.

It was a mixed of shady and non-shady trail. Since it was a real sunny Saturday, we have to rushed climbing every time we were in the non-shady trail.

Before reaching the summit, we had a short stop at the view deck or white rock formations. Views over there were already magnificent and we can’t wait reaching the top.

Total hours going to the summit is I think more than two hours. This will of course depend on the group’s phase. We took a lot of resting time to I guess it was almost three hours reaching the top.

The summit is awesome! Well, I guess again every summit has their own beauty. Just like this one.

Words will (always) never be enough to define God’s creation’s beauty via view on top.

The scorching heat, tiredness, thirst, minor skin scratches are all worth it.

We took our early lunch at the summit as well.

Then after eating and some time for photo op and resting, we then decided to go down.

Going down to the falls is more than one hour. The trail was steep. Good thing it wasn’t raining because for sure, it will be so slippery going down.

Then here came the falls! We had some bath time and snack time after the photo op.

The water was so cold! Perfectly for the hot and non-shady trail we have passed by.

When we dipped into the water, it was so brrrrrrrr….

The falls was just 15 minutes away from the main/concrete road and after almost 30 minutes, we were back at the jump off point or registration area.

By 5 in the afternoon, we were back in Cubao.

It was an easy hike with the rate of 3/9. So try it! The view will never fail you!

I hope more people will try to hike again. We noticed that numbers of mountaineers were going down for the past months.

Aside from helping the locals, we should all witness and experience nature’s way of physical, mentally, social, and even spiritually benefits for us.

Just please always keep in mind the LNT policy when hiking. (Leave No Trace)

Take nothing but pictures and memories.

Kill nothing but time.

Left nothing but footsteps.

Here’s the itinerary and budget that we had:

2 am- meet up at Cubao

2:30 am- leave Cubao, ride jeeo going to Cogeo/Padilla. Fare is 25 pesos.

3:30 am – reached Cogeo, ride jeep again going to Sampaloc. Fare is 50 pesos.

(Note: Tricycle drivers will try to market their services and will say that there’s no jeep yet. Don’t be fooled. There’s a jeep terminal. Just walk straight to the right and you will find the jeep terminal. In front of the terminal is 7/11.)

5 am – tell the driver to drop you off at Maynoba/Cayabu.

6 am- Upon reaching Brgy Cayabu, ride a tricycle going to the registration. Tricycle fare is 200 pesos good for four pax.

Registration Fee – 100 per head

Guide Fee – 500 pesos (100 per head)

Summary of our trip: 

Past 6 am - Start hike

-        White rock Formations/View Deck

-        Summit / Early lunch time

-        Descend going to Falls

-        Bath time!

-        Going back to the jump off to washed off.

-        Ride a tricycle going back to highway

-        Ride jeep going to Cogeo

-        Ride FX/Van/Jeep going back to Cubao.

-        Early dinner at Mang Inasal (with unli rice hehe)