"KABAYAN, Kalikasan, Kalayaan." Kabayan, Benguet opted to celebrate Independence Day with a nature trek.

For the second year on June 12, municipal officials and employees, the police force and high school students of Kamora National High School will come together at the municipal grounds before trooping to Tabeyo Lake in Ballay for an extraordinary tree planting-cum-Independence Day celebration.

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They also coincided the event with an invitational package tour on the same day to last until the next day. The participants of the tour will get a chance to take part in the tree planting activity around the lakeshore.

Included in the tour is a visit to Timbac where the twin burial caves of the centuries-old mummies are located and also passing through the Tinongchol Burial Rock. Camping is arranged along the lakeshore of Tabeyo to culminate the day's activity in a bonfire get-together.

Adventure continues the next day with an ascent to Mt. Tabayok, the fifth highest mountain in the Philippines at an elevation of 9,322 feet above sea level and passing through the serene inland lake of Ambulalakaw.

This is a two-day activity that would take visitors to experience dirt road adventure, hiking, camping, photography, mystic lake viewing, tree planting, canopy viewing, and at the very least a close encounter with the age-old mummies of Kabayan.

Pegged at P2,000, the fee is inclusive of two meals (dinner of day 1 and lunch of day 2 before returning to Baguio), a T-shirt, token, ID, guide fee, entrance fee, barangay fee, insurance, and fare for the whole duration of the activity.

For more information, please contact Mayor Faustino Aquisan at 0907-3018141, Councilor Dorothea Sental at 0920-4452822, Engineer Berry Sangao Jr. and Ghislyn at 0919-2378156, or look up http://twilightglo.multiply.com.