If you want a place where you can relax near Lipa City, this is the best spot for that! This spring just gets really crowded during holidays so if you want it all to yourself, better visit on a weekday.
🇵🇭ALULOD SPRING ADVENTURE PRIMER🇵🇭
✈🛳🚌 How to get to Alulod Spring, Batangas:
⏺ Bus from Metro Manila bound for Lipa City via Tanauan-Malvar (e.g. JAM Liner in LRT Taft-Buendia; travel time is 1.5 – 2 hours)
⏺ Alight at the town proper of Malvar.
⏺ Charter a tricycle to get to the jump-off.
⏺ Trek to reach the spring.
⏰⏳ SAMPLE ITINERARY:
6:00 AM ETD for Malvar
8:00 AM ETA Malvar / breakfast / buy packed lunch
9:00 AM ETD for Alulod Spring
9:30 AM Start trek
10:00 AM ETA Alulod Spring
12:00 PM Lunch
3:00 PM Wash up / head back to Malvar town proper
4:00 PM ETD for Manila
💰💶 ESTIMATED BUDGET (for a solo traveler): Php 500 – Php 700
***Expenses may vary depending on personal consumption of food and other necessities. If traveling alone, you will solely shoulder the transfer rates via tricycle.
📜✏ Tips/Reminders:
📌The place is also known as Bulihan Spring.
📌The trek takes about 10 – 20 minutes depending on your pace. You will be going down/climbing stairsteps.
📌There is no need to hire a local guide as the trail is pretty much straightforward.
📌If you still have time, you may visit Casa de Segunda in Lipa City.
📌Always observe the LNT principles.
It was June 12th and since it was a holiday, I grabbed the opportunity to visit my high school friend who works as a teacher in Batangas. I left Manila before sunrise and upon arrival in Malvar, I quickly asked her where I could have my breakfast. We then decided to go to this spring where we could catch up and continue with our stories. After all, it’s been years since we last saw each other.I was already expecting lots of people swimming because it was a holiday. It was fine with me. I could always come back to take better photos since it’s just near Manila.I went back on a weekday with two of my Batangueno friends who live in Lipa City. It was early in the morning and we got the place to ourselves. The gloomy weather also made it absolutely perfect for my long exposure shots.
***For more photos of Alulod Spring, please click this link. For other destinations in Batangas and CALABARZON, you may visit this link.
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