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Baler, Aurora

by MissBackpacker on July 25, 2011 in Aurora, Backpacking, Philippines with 10 Comments

Location: Baler, Aurora
Date: July 22 to 24 2011
Present: Kaiz and Jie, Team Jibb, Mel, Jojo

It has been a long time since I wrote a decent entry, I admit. My past posts were nothing but inane rants. So here, an attempt on producing a substantial write-up.

Dot dot dot.

My friends at the office and I decided to take three days off from our exhausting work loads. And so we all agreed to go back to Aurora, which we visited some three years ago. Digital cameras were not yet a hype during that time. I promised not to miss the second chance of capturing Aurora’s beauty particularly Baler. For all I know, this could be my last visit to one of the North’s pearls.

DIGUISIT FALLS
It took me a while to find out that the first part of our vacation was Diguisit Falls. I asked one of the locals there, who I think is not a real native of the place, what the name of the falls is. He wasn’t able to give me any answers so I just counted on Mister Google who never fails me. Continue reading →

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