T'daan Kini Falls, the lesser known falls in Lake Sebu!

T’daan Kini Falls is located Barangay Lamlahak, Lake Sebu, South Cotabato.  It is the lesser known falls in Lake Sebu area and it is around 45 minutes walk from Sitio Talibuk with nice scenes along the way.

T’daan in the local language (T’boli) means “cold and hot water.Once reaching the falls all your tiredness from walking will all disappear. The fall at the moment can be reached by foot, but once the bridge linking the road getting there will just be a 15 minute walk. Along the road is small community of T’boli tribe which make wood carving as a souvenir items that are being sold. It is one means of livelihood for the tribe in the area. Abaca is abundant in the are thus abaka fibers are being cultivated and processed as a means of livelihood of the common folks in the area.

We passed by two small streams in going to T’daan Falls. This I may say makes our journey a lot more exciting. Upon reaching T’daan Kini Falls, it is a sight to behold, the water is very cold and the place is ideal for picnic and swimming as a means of rejuvenation from the long walks that people does in getting there.
We had our lunch courtesy of Lake Sebu Tourism Board. It was a very filling lunch with fried tilapia which is abundant in the area and adobong manok. We really enjoyed eating our lunch with the use of our hands. It was a long time ago that I used my hands while eating and in sync with nature at that. We just sat where we feel comfortable and ate our lunch. The experience is priceless!

The tour we had was part of the Sox Bloggers spearheaded by Avel Manasala of GenSantos.com
Special thanks to the people of Lake Sebu Tourism Board.

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A visit and product sampling at Cresing's Food Products Maitum, Saranggani Province!

I was one of the lucky participants who got invited to the SOCCSKSARGEN Experience Tour (SEX Tour) Part Deux! I would say that it was one of the best experience I had and I would like to thank the organizers, especiallyAvel Manasala and the rest of the SOCCSKSARGEN Bloggers!

Last February 25, 2001 I woke up very early to travel to Maitum, Sarangani Province, I stayed in Driggs Pension House and was fetched up by Avel himself together with the bloggers from Manila in the name of Cai Abass,Marky Ramone Go, Fitz Gerard Villafuerte and Don Triviño. We waited for the other bloggers from Davao and Soccsksargen area before we proceed to Maitum.

We visited Cresings Food Products, who let us have a taste of their organic products like the Lemon grass-Turmeric hot drink, and the cold drink counterpart with a punch of lemonsito. It was really refreshing. Their products ranges from organically grown black rice, red rice and white rice. They also have a new caffeine free coffee made from rice and corn, wild turmeric powder, moringa, fresh dalaldan, herbal salted egg, lemon grass powder, coco sugar and bagoong.

You can order from them directly by calling or text with mobile number 0919-3045279 or email them at ferminc.rivas@hotmail.com

Free tasting of their products comes with a heavy breakfast, where we got to taste the organic black rice, brown rice and white rice that they are also selling. The owner of Cresing was very happy to meet bloggers from the region and also from Manila. The food was really filling, the food on the table are some of their products like the herbal salted egg which they did not dip into any food coloring to preserve the taste, some are grown in their garden like the fresh vegetable salad like carrots, singkamas, cucumber, their blanced vegetable like okra and camote tops, dried salted fish and the ginataang suso which was a hit with my palate.

We ended up buying some of their products which Ria Jose from Davao recommended us to take home with us since it will be much cheaper on site. If you are interested in ordering they ship it anywhere in the Philippines you just have to shoulder the freight fee in addition to your orders.

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