Club Manila East

Club Manila East in Taytay, Rizal

Entry Point

OTW to cottage

Me and my College friends organize an annual summer get-away. This year, the original plan was to go to Anawangin Cove in Zambales, but due to the unavailibility of some of us for the last two days and due to its lengthy travel from Metro Manila, we decided to push through with our PLAN B; we chose to go to CMA - "Club Manila East" in Taytay Rizal. It's an ideal get-away place as it is close to Metro Manila, and that most of us are within the vicinity of Riza.

Club Manila East is located in the Municipality of Taytay, province of Rizal. Resort is open from 8am-5pm during day swimming. They have giant, olympic-sized and wave pools. They also offer ziplining, kayaking and provides instructor for surfing.

Jump Shot

Lunch

Swimming Time

kayaking

Bringing of food is not allowed. But many of food store can be found inside the resort (still a business). We rented a large cottge with padlocks so we won't be concern leaving our things behind. We ended our trip with a muscle pain because of jumping everytime we have a picture taking and ofcourse a smile in our face. Until our next year  "OYAT" summer get-away.

The Boys!

Jump-Shot DAW

Jump Again

Group Picture

Budget Breakdown:

22 Crossing-Taytay
10 Tricycle -CMA
500 CMA Entrance Fee
10 CMA-Highway
22 Taytay-Crossing

Ocular Ride to Sta Inez

Ocular Ride to Sitio Sadlak Sta. Inez, Tanay Rizal

Rock & Ride

In preparation to our incoming Freedom Climb this June 2011. We decided to have an ocular ride to Sta Inez Tanay Rizal. At first i don't have any idea about the place we're about to visit. All I know is that I'm free that day and I should join.

I enjoyed the zigzag and cemented road of Sierra Madre, When we entered the rough road area, going to Sta Inez, we had to slow down and enjoy the ambiance of the place.

Rough Road

Breakfast (snacks)

We took our late breakfast along the road. The road is not that established, and it posed the real challenge to reach Sta Inez, not to mention that we have to cross a part of a river. Our vehicles were not really an off-road type, so we decided to park and cross the river. because there are parts where there are large piece of rocks, and there's deep portion of the river which could be possibly make us to lose our balance. We did around 8 river crosses.

Touchdown Sta Inez

River Crossing

We reached Sta Inez at exactly 12:00PM, and we took our lunch near the store of a  friendly local who offered to cook lunch for us. Afterwards we took some rest. At exactly 3:00PM, we decided to head back to Antipolo. We then went to Baldivia's Residence, where we watched "Crazy little things called Love" while eating roacky road ice cream.It's a simple celebration to our successful ocular ride to a never ending rocky road of Sta Inez. Now we're ready for the FREEDOM CLIMB.

The Rider's

On the way Home

BenTeng Kasiyahan

Manang Beach in Real Quezon

Sunrise view from Manang Beach

Manang Beach is located in Brgy. Malapad Real Quezon. It's a private place, named after Manang who ownes a small hut beside the beach, and serving as a caretaker of the place.

We visited here for a "BenTeng Kasiyahan" Celebrating birthdays of "Ben" and "Teng". this is also a simple gathering of Climb&Dive Family.

Beach Camp

The Beach

Boodle Fight (lunch)

Luksong Baka

We stayed overnight and had a Camp set-up near the Beach. We played some of our childhood games like "luksong baka", "piko", "ten-twenthy' among others - games that cause us to reminisce. We ended our trip happy and satisfied -twas a chill, fun activity. Then we hit the road and headed back to Manila.

Time to go Home

The Boys

Group Picture