text | Carla Ocampo
photography | Lester Valle
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Daranak Falls in Tanay, Rizal would have been an image straight out of a fairy tale— yip, butterflies flitting around moss-covered rocks… Richly-crowned trees huddling together to frame a lacy triple-cascade waterfall… the interplay of shadow and sunlight as a spray of water envelopes you like pixie dust… hell yeah, the works. If not for the ugly, ugly truth. We’re letting the pictures talk.
How long would it take before Daranak goes the way of Antipolo‘s Hinulugang Taktak, another waterfall within the province of Rizal where the stream banks smell like rotten Chippy-con-Safeguard, and the “cabanas” look a tad too kitschy for comfort? Not too long, we believe, unless the local government springs to action.
At this point, The Kayumanggi Trails Team has seen enough trash around “eco-tourism destinations” (what a misnomer!) to sustain our collective teeth-gnashing for a lifetime. Enough. Read the rest of this entry »
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