Birhen sa Guadalupe - Balubal, Cagayan De Oro City - pilgrims trek mountain, cross rivers for Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine
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Cagayan de Oro City—Each year thousands of devote Roman Catholics as well as families and group of friends trek the two Holy Week destinations here to reaffirm their faith, commitments, or just for the adventure.
Cagayan de Oro City, one of the fastest growing business centers in Mindanao has a unique Holy Week destination that will surely bring you back to nature amidst the busy development you see all around the city.
Adventurous travelers or able-bodied devotees can make the long river trek to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe at Igbalalay Hills in Barangay Balubal, or climb Malasag Hills in Cugman, or even both.
Over the past few years, the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe has been a major destination for pilgrims and adventure trekkers.
To reach the shrine, devotees have to walk about four kilometers starting in Barangay Tablon and ending in Barangay Balubal. But the real challenge would be to get across and navigate through nine rivers.
Most of those who trekked suggested that the hardest part to navigate and get across was the fourth river crossing; with water level reaching the hips. While others walk back, others pay for a ride on a large rubber inflatable on the water rapids on their way back giving a different enterprise for local residents.
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| Stairs Going to the Main Chapel |
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| Over Looking View in Front of the Chapel |
THE CHAPEL
Birhen sa Guadalupe - Balubal, Cagayan De Oro City
Over-All Experienced: "crossing the waters of Umalag river while on our way to the shrine was very challenging esp with a raging water level as high as the hips!"
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wow.. Wanna Try it..
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