The Hidden Treasures of Kabahian Woodlands: The Hidden Treasures of Kabahian Woodlands

The Hidden Treasures of Kabahian Woodlands

by: Genesis Gregorious Genelza

I was looking for a place where I could take an adventure, for I am an adventurous one. A place where I can do crazy things and enjoy my life so that I will cherish that wonderful event that will happen in my life, because it is just once in a lifetime. Thank God, I’ve found one! A perfect place where I could take a chance to travel.

My cousin invited me to go to their place in the mountain. At last, another exciting mountain climbing experience! I can’t wait to go there.

By the way, the name of the mountain is Kabahian. The legend says the mountain was named after the abundance of the “Bahi” woods but later changed into ‘Kabahian’. This ‘Bahi’ woods are long columnar trees like of those coco trees. It has bunches of orange fruits like beetle nuts which shows that this tree somehow belongs to the family of palm. And you know that ‘Bahi’ woods were also known to be useful in making handles for bolos, plows, and spears.

Where this mountain can be found?

This is situated more or less 15 kilometers away from Bongabong, PantukanComVal Province. We can find this place in between the mountain boundaries of Pindasan, Mabini and Pantukan. The mountain shows the richness of fauna and flora. Numerous trees of softwood and hardwood species now had established including of those unknown kinds like Red and Lauans, Apitong, Narra, Falcatta, Bunol, Molave, Magkuno, Angelo, African Tulip, and more. Attractive huge exhibit of wild colorful flowers hanging and growing on trees and cliffs, like wild orchids, African Tulips, climbing petty buds, long tendrils of Cadena de Amor, trellises of unknown varieties large and small in size and other unfamiliar blooms feeds your eyes. Along with are fruit bearing trees scattered around the vicinity, ripe fruits are ready for the picking like Rambutans, Lanzones, Bananas, Pilinuts, Guavas and other unnamed but tasty wild fruits. Endangered species of animals are rampantly roaming around free like monkeys, green frogs, snakes of different species, lizards, baboyramo, deer, and lots of undistinguished types. Different kinds of local and migrant birds occupy branches of trees.

The terrains are potential for mountain climbing and zip lines better than those of Luzon, Cebu, and the newly established one in Matina, Davao City. Other adventures if you want to travel is you could enjoy through hiking, camping, picnicking, and the overlooking of the amazing wide glittering panorama below during at nights, where everyone could see the whole Davao City, Samal Island, and Pantukan, which are seemingly within your grasp.

My experience when I went there was extremely exciting and I’m so tongue-tied of the beauty of nature that I saw there. It was like a paradise that everything you wanted in your life was there. No wonder why the inhabitants living there did not migrated to the other place and leave the mountain for the natural resources and everything they want is there. The nature’s bounty of the mountain is truly a treasure for them, a God’s gift that need to be protected and preserved for the next generation to relish.

Beautiful scenery of Kabahian woodlands.

How to get there: you may take a ride in a motor climbing in Tibagon, PantukanComVal Province for about 1 and a half hour. Then, to get the center, real destination of the mountain where the beautiful scenery can be found, you may take a walk or do mountain climbing for about 15 minutes climbing to the top of the mountain to see the views of the mountain. And I’m sure you may like it to see the hidden treasures of Kabahian woodlands.