Trekking to Bani Water Falls ( Day 2)

I woke up around 5 Am in the morning the next day. The skies are blue and clouds turned into orange colored cottons on some of its parts . The morning mist cools my nose so I have to put a bonnet on my head. The lowest temperature that experienced since last night was only 18 degrees Celsius which is much hotter compared to MT. Apo’s base camp in Tumpis.

After our early breakfast ( corned beef and vegetable on tomato sauce with rice), we prepared our things for the days trek and break our camp. We leave some of our things to one of the locals house and pick them up upon our way going home in the afternoon.

Half of the total trail going to the water falls is a bushtrail up to your waist which reminds of a picture in Mt. Pulag in Luzon which resembles it and I said to myself , this place could be Davao’s version of Mt. Pulag but of course its trail will lead to a waterfalls .

An hour of walking we reach a small hat on top of a hill where you could just sit there and satisfy your eyes with beautiful landscape and the most exciting part is Bani Waterfalls is part of the scenery , I mean the whole waterfalls is visible to your naked eyes while staying there.

After a couple of minutes of relaxing we start descending to the foot of the water falls following the same bush trail but about few minutes walk the trail shifted to a step trail with trees and small plants on the side which we hold on for we would surely go down directly because its slippery.

All those things that we endure seem to vanish when we reach the foot of the water fall . The river that runs from the water falls shallow and you could go swimming on it. Some of my companions went to the drops for a water massage. In that place we ate our packed lunch and stayed there for almost 30 minutes.

When we go up, we used the trail on the right side of the waterfalls, its sounds cool but the level of difficulty is way much higher compared to the trail going there. It is also as steep as we go down but imagine going up on a slippery trail with a cliff on your right side and you rely only to the small roots to hold on.

In the middle of the trail going up you will reach the waterfalls natural pool and follow the cascading water trail to reach the top.

At last after two hours of hard labor on the treacherous trail we reach the top of the waterfalls . At that moment I was relieved for I know that the next trail would be easier. In that place I realized that we just climbed the whole water falls from bottom to top , whew and from where I sit I could see in front the mountain where I took the first shot of the whole waterfalls .

Our adventure to Bani Waterfalls is gives different experience to me and my companions , it shows me a different type of waterfalls , trail that resembles the view on top of Mt. Pulag and specially climbing on the top of the water falls in which I never realized before that we are goin to that at a first glance . Yet ,this whole trip marked happiness and enjoyment for all of us and saying to myself “ I’ll be coming back”.