A few days ago, I had shared with you the Hobbit Houses of Mount Kitanglad. And I also had mentioned in that blog that I will share with you more information on this farm. But I reckoned, it would be great to also share with you a glimpse of how to get to this exact location and what happened during our trip.
Again, this Do It Yourself trip happened before the pandemic so you can see people here on the photos were not wearing any masks at all.
So, let's get started!
Our flight was at four in the morning, so we had to be awake before one in the earning morning of October 5. 2018. We booked a grabcar to Mactan Airport, the flight was only an hour to Laguindingan Airport in Cagayan De Oro City! It was our first time to be in Cagayan too but we will check this city next time instead, for now, it was just a hopping station for us!
I noted here sleepless day in the photo because we didn't have any good sleep, we had work the day before our trip and we had to wake up pretty early, we did get a few minutes sleep in the plane but that was not enough, later in this blog, you will see the challenge in getting to the Hobbit Houses or the Mt. Kitanglad Agro Eco Farm.
Upon reaching Laguindingan Airport, we took a van towards Agora Terminal. We of course took the fastest option to get to the terminal, according to my research, Super 5 was the best option. We have to be at the terminal before six in the morning so we could take the double decker bus because we want to experience riding that too!
We arrived in Agora Terminal at 6:30 AM. The double decker bus was rented for the entire day. We took their airconditioned bus instead which departs at seven in the morning.
The comfort room looks clean right?
Going back to the bus, it was my first time to find a bus in the Philippines which has an entertainment device in each seat! Kids could play and adults could watch movies which was what we did!
I wonder if the Pabama Bus Tours is still in business these days. The pandemic might have affected their business too! Until today, we still have not tried any double decker and it is still part of our bucket list.
The bus wasn't full so I had a lot of time and space to take photographs while waiting for it to depart from the terminal.
There's a lady crew as well who leaded the prayer before departure. She was also assigned to assist the customers as well as offer snacks for sale! There's a comfort room inside the bus too!
We bought taro chips which were products of the same bus company! I love the sweet and sour flavor though!
It was in Mindanao as well that I had experienced getting out of the bus for inspection and disinfecting. There were military personnel who manned this check and we have to pass by the tent to step on a disinfecting liquid. As mentioned by the lady crew, this is a mandatory requirement so each and every vehicle moving from one border to another has to stop and get the passengers out for inspection.
Now we were heading to Malaybalay, these two above photos were just some of the views while we were inside the bus! I already forgot how long was the travel time. I had enjoyed the view though so it was just worth it.
We reached Malaybalay Public Terminal, we checked for the jeepney that would take us to the area where we can rent a habal-habal to get us to the Eco Farm but we got lost. It was a long story and we wasted more than an hour, thankfully, a good Samaritan helped us out and we were able to reach Kisolon where there were motorcycles.
To reach the Mt. Kitanglad Agro Eco Farm, we have to endure a 50-minute motorcycle bumpy ride, it was totally an unexpected surprise. But we reached the home of Mindanao's Hobbit Houses and we were greeted by its fresh air and nature at its finest!
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