The Beauty Of Bandera Mountain in Manticao, Misamis Oriental, Philippines

Bandera mountain is one of the place located here in Manticao, Misamis Oriental. This is a perfect spots for traveling adventure and it has a great overview on it. I decided to to take a visit and explored the place to experience how fascinating and relaxing it was. It is a very hot sunny day during my travel and have a clear blue skies. This place is also a border line between the two barangays of Manticao. I was really amazed the time when I arrived at the place. Even if this mountain is a kind of windy, still it is really hot due to extremely heat comes from the sun due to summer season.

This place contains many root crops and plants just like bananas. This is one of the primary source of income to all of us here in the Province and this can be harvested every 5 months. We are very happy to have this kind of place because of being abundance of Plants and root crops. Banana can grows in different kinds of place even if the area contains many solid rocks on it. The only thing to do is to remove all unnecessary and dried banana leaves so that there will be no any kinds of harmful insects lives in the place.

This mountain contains of class C types of silica rocks. This is the primary ingredients of making cements. Some geologist are already examined the place and according to them, this mountain contains 75 Percent of rocks and only 25 percent contains a fertile soil. Coconut trees wont be able to grow and live here and only the crops just like corn and banana plants can be able to grow. The company of cement would like to buy this area but we disagreed. We keep this areas always clean and well organized.

As I observed the place, it is completely dried up and the grass was also completely dried and wethered. It addens the heat of the place because of the big chunk of rocks and it reflects the heat on it. But there are still parts of the place that contains a greeny place and have a majestic trees because of its tall and wide.It keeps the place to become cool and fresh And we don't want this trees cut down.

Even if it was very heat, I still enjoyed traveling around the place. I really enjoyed watching the fascinating places just like trees, overview places and many more. The best thing I did is to bring water so that it keeps me more refreshing and relaxing even if I am in the midst of the mountainous place. There are also neighboring mountains can be seen here in Bandera, you can see a portion of mountains in the pictures and at the back of that place is our Public Market. Many people lives on that place and some of them are nomad people. They do cropping and planting more corns and others kinds of plants.Many, many years has passed this place was owned by a nomad and native people. The evidence about their way of living is this carved in this big stones.

Recently, we discovered many broken pieces of broken pots and shell necklaces. It was very amazed because the stone was already covered with algae plants and the carved was already covered also. We carefully cleaned the stones but I dont removed the algae plants on it.

I also found this geometrical stones near at the sites and for me, I think this was once a cutting tools to all people who lived here during the Neolithic period or stone period. It has a very pointed shape with a design on its sides of the stones. According to the book I read about this kind of thing, the wood will place at the flat top of this stone and tied it up using a vine. I really impressed about their old way of living.

Below in the mountain is the Manticao river. The place was continuing to dried up because of the extremely heat brought by the summer. Sometimes, we catched more fish, shrimps and other kind of exotic food here in the river. This is very helpful to all people and residents near at this river in terms of agricultural activities and for animal porpuses.

The river maintains its beauty and fascinating because of this tall trees grows in the place. As I went here, I can really feel how fresh the area was. This trees can help to have a shady areas so that we can be able to relax in here during our long journey.