James Peak, Antipolo, Rizal (December 2025)

 

Our 5^th Wedding Anniversary Trip

James Peak, Antipolo, Rizal

 

Marrying your best friend is like having a merry life – with full of ups and downs yet you stood by each other.

I’m just so glad and grateful that my husband is as adventurous as me. Whenever there’s a place I want to go or to experience, he’s more than willing to go with me.

At some point, I get scared, but I still do it because he’s there for me and we do it together – still scared but secured.

The date was December 20, 2025 – our 5^th wedding anniversary.

At 10 in the morning, we’re already on our way to Antipolo, Rizal.

Thank you to Waze for helping us reach our destination. Before proceeding to our actual destination, we stopped by a grocery store to buy some food and things that we’ll be needing.

James Peak is located at Maagay 1 Lower Barangay Inarawan, Antipolo City. It is a newly opened camping site, still raw and with limited camping space, kubo and cottage rental. We decided to rent the kubo for a more comfortable sleeping ground. We paid in advance to secure our booking.

We parked our motorcycle in front of the house of the camping site owner near the basketball court and we began our hike.

It was a 15-to-30-minute hike going up to the camping site.

It also rained a bit when we first got there.

Upon reaching camping site, we headed to our kubo.

The room has a decent foam for sleeping with bedding and pillows and electricity. It also has a table and chair outside of the room where we cooked our food and ate.

We then had our late lunch before taking a quick nap. Hubbs cooked pancit canton with pechay baguio. We also brought chicken pork adobo.

At 5 pm, we went out our kubo to see the sunset.

As usual, sunsets make my heart sink. It always leaves me in awe of God’s wonderful creations. 

We’re on top of a mountain witnessing an orange to red horizon that slowly turning into dark mode.

For our dinner, Hubbs cooked cabbage. We also still have adobo left from our lunch.

Then the highlight of our day, a bon fire!

We roasted some marshmallows under the moonlight with city lights as our front view.

It was a cozy, simple and yet magical night for us.

 

At 10 pm, we’re back to our kubo to sleep.

 

The following day, we got up early to see the sunrise.

It literally and figuratively brightens up our day. The view was majestic. I just can’t get enough of taking photos and videos.

A happy anniversary indeed.

We checked out at 10 am and we’re back in Manila at 11 am since it’s a Sunday – no traffic to conquer.

It was a quick escape, yet it was memorable and we really had a lot of fun experiencing again a raw camping in a way.

 

Thank you, Lord God, for the provision, for the safety, for the wonderful places we get to experience and for the gift of marriage.

On to our next adventure!