Feyma's World» Travel http://feymamartin.com/blog Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:07:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Our Sarangani Farm! http://feymamartin.com/blog/2008/09/our-sarangani-farm/ http://feymamartin.com/blog/2008/09/our-sarangani-farm/#comments Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:09:11 +0000 feyma http://feymamartin.com/blog/?p=77 During summer breaks of my kids this year, we went to my parents farm in Patag, Malapatan, Sarangani Province. Just less than 30 minutes drive from General Santos City. Its a place where I was born. Patag is a small barrio. I don’t even know the population there. This is the first time that my 3 kids went there. They really had fun going swimming with their cousins(Leo, Glenrose, Cyril, Emmanuel, Joshua, David, Nichole, and Sahara. They probably would have stayed on that river for a long time if not that its getting dark. They really like to jump from that coconut tree thats just floating in the middle of the river. As you can see on the picture the water is not that deep. Its really good for the kids to take a dip. My youngest son likes to dig under water and get some sand and rocks. He likes to collect different shape of small rocks. As a matter of fact my niece and sister had to come back to the river because Jared my youngest forgot to bring with him when he went home to my sister’s house his rock collection. He left it at the side of the river. He was really glad that my sister and niece found it. I wonder what would be his reaction if he felt the small crabs under the rocks? I think he might be freak out a little bit. He doesn’t really like to touch those.

One of the highlights of our trip was the Kariton(cart pulled by the carabao) ride. The kids like it. That was the first time they experience riding it. They were really amazed. The kariton it should be used to get coconut or any stuff from the farm. Sometimes they want to just keep on riding it, but we have to let them stop so that the Carabao can rest for awhile. The kariton is really a big hit for the kids. Even now at our house they even talk about it and sometimes asked me when are we going back to visit the farm again. Honestly we were thinking of going back there a few weeks ago, but canceled it due to some fighting in the Sarangani area. We just felt that its not the right time to go anywhere at the moment. Just to be safe though. One of our friend almost hit by the bombing in Digos. If he would have arrived like 5 minutes early, his bus that he was riding would have been hit too. So it just scared me a little bit. Hopefully it will be fine soon. We will visit there again soon. I want to visit my ailing mom. I want to see her as much as I can now. She’s turning 80 years old in December and bee through a lot.

The kids also went and pick out some veggies. They had fun picking them. The only thing they don’t know how to pick the ready or not. My sister just try to let them get what they want from the garden. Thats the first time the kids ever harvested anything. They also familiarized then the different kinds of veggies in our farm. They really like it there. They told my family that next summer they want to stay in the farm for a month. They also want to help harvesting the coconut and corn.

Really I am looking forward for that. Will see though. I am also glad that they the place that I grow up. They want that we will build a small house there for us to stay whenever we want to visit there. We might. Who knows.

To my family thank you so much for taking care of us while there. I know its extra work for you guys. I love you all!

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Bob and I just got back a week ago from Tugaya in Lanao Del Sur. It was really a fun trip. Seeing those people from that place makes moro kris, brass ware, wooden drums and furnitures was more fun. I think its 99% of the people that live there are muslims. They really are nice people. Our guide is a doctor, he lives and practice in Marawi. I would not recommend to anybody to just go to Tugaya without knowing anybody there. For safety reasons. You have to have a guide that knows that area. We stayed in Iligan for two nights, we meet up with our friends there too. Our friends had a party ready for us the night before we head home to Davao. It was so nice seeing them again. I love you guys.

On our way home we also hook up some friends in Cagayan De Oro and Bukidnon.

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