Sunday, February 17, 2013

BUKIDNON: An Underrated Beauty

 
We were a group of 50-- 95% production crew, 5% (m)ad men-- and we were flying out for work.
Our heads were focused on the three-day shoot that had to be done. Game face on.

But when you get to the location where every corner is majestic, you'll end up talking to yourself A LOT.
Kath, you are here to work. 
This is not leisure traveling. 

And then you give in.
You conclude that times like this don't happen often.
And that perhaps, work and leisure do not always have to be mutually exclusive.

So you carry on with work, while taking photos on a cabbage patch and answering the call of nature with a soiled sack.
And you meet farmers, who are excited to see new people, always offering you food even when they did not have much on their plate.
At night, you'll get the surprise of a lifetime when a bajillion fireflies make their way to your light set-up forcing everyone to cover their faces and ears, and eventually pack-up.

That was when we were reminded we were still working.
And that we were high up in the mountains.
Enveloped by thick fog, and cool winds, trying not to freeze to death.

The rendezvous with Bukidnon was rather quick. But a place as charming and mysterious deserves a second visit.
It's underrated and you know it's true when it begins showing off one of the best sunsets you've ever seen 
and yet you still haven't heard or read much about it elsewhere.


And even when the memories were only captured with an iPhone, its true beauty emanates.
Who wouldn't want to come back?

1 comment:

  1. I really like that photo of the farmers! =D

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