TINAGO FALLS: A Natural
Wonder…
My nephews, nieces, and I were battling the current. We didn’t beat the current, but it was real fun.
What you see in this photo is not only what you get, and although its name, “Tinago” (Hidden Falls), describes how it was before its discovery, it
is a misnomer. I would recommend renaming it “The Valley of Falls “or “The
Waterfalls Valley” because the entire valley (not visible in the pictures)
drips with breathtaking waterfalls. On the left and right of this frontal photo
is likewise water cascading from the forest that I can only describe as a natural wonder beyond compare to what I have seen neither in real life nor photos at
National Geographic. You are virtually surrounded by a cascading deluge of real
natural wonders.
You have to see it to believe.
Going down the valley in the past, as I was told, was a sheer adventure where you had to climb down and up again with ropes through mud and the thick foliage of the forest. The government has since developed it with stairs
snaking through the forest, but the steep staircase is still not for the faint-hearted, especially the elderly. Some years ago, when I first visited the valley,
my very young son laughably had to manually lift his legs one at a time to get
to the top of the stairs :-)
This was a painting by my younger brother a few years before he passed away, which I recently added to this blog post.
NLK
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