i started my journey by taking a 3:58am bus from Cebu South Terminal. i got down at Dalaguete just after sunrise and took a motorbike to a starting point nearby to Osmeda Peak. The bus ride is PHP 120 while the motorbike is PHP 200 (which looks expensive to me). It was an effortless 30 minutes stroll to the peak from my motorbike drop off point, while i stopped for photographing and eating some Piaya as breakfast. The view from the peak is spectacular. A 9 year old offered himself as tour guide while i was enjoying my view from the peak. i had to decline his service as i had really planned to complete the adventure without a guide. However, the problem started there. There were many paths from the peak. i asked some campers at the peak but they also don't know how to get to Kawasan Falls. i decided to go on northern trail, only to turn back 5 minutes later as i bumped into a farmer enroute who told me Kawasan Falls was on the other direction. By the time i turned back, the camper group seems to have hire a tour guide so i was lucky to just trail them. The route follows a south western direction from Osmeda Peak. In fact i wasn't too sure whether they were heading to Kawasan Falls as initially one of the camper told me they were heading elsewhere. Anyhow, by then i have made up mind just to get down from the peak to any point on the main road. It turned out that the campers were heading Kawasan Falls direction after all, as i asked farmers along the way for direction and it seemed we were heading to the same direction. Anyhow, after some stops and some a small town, i broke off with the campers and went solo. The mountain are inhabited and i felt i could ask for direction on my way down.
i met a group of hikers from Cebu city about 3 hour on my track. They were doing without a guide and i followed them instead from there on. They were very friendly and i felt happy to have meet them.
This is my first hiking at Cebu and it won't be the last.
