Hidden Beauties Up There

“It is the journey, not the destination, that matters.”†

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High in Mt. Malipunyo are hidden wonders waiting to be discovered.

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WHOEVER said that must have climbed many mountains.

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Most mountaineers are too focused on accomplishing their objective –† The Summit — that they tend to ignore the treasures along the way.

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When we climbed Mt. Malipunyo, the highest peak in the Malarayat Mountain Range in Batangas, two weekends ago, I took time to pay attention to the diverse ecosystem along the pathway leading up to and going down from the Summit.† I am glad I did.† For one I discovered that climbing as well as descending a mountain is so much easier when you are enjoying the scenery around you.† More importantly the mountain revealed its hidden treasures to me as soon as I started really looking.

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There is beauty everywhere in the mountain. You just have to look for them.

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Armed with my iPhone (with its spartan camera features), my Olympus weatherproof digicam, and my bare-bones and less-than-basic knowledge of Macro Photography, I snapped away at each and every little thing that I find exotic and intriguing along the way.

I’ll feature these hidden beauties of Mt. Malipunyo in a series of posts in the next few days. :->

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