OUTDOORS COMMON SENSE TIPS: Never ever fail to make courtesy calls on
barangay (village) authorities when you pass by their places. Conditions in the
Philippines are different from other countries, even here in Cebu, which has
the best peace and order situation in the country.
Make
it a point to register in the barangays during official government daytime
hours. Hiking during and after dusk are discouraged unless it is for an
emergency.
Make it a good practice to liaison with local government units and the police or the military IN ADVANCE before embarking in an outdoor activity. Hire a professional guide to do these things for you.
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January 5, 2018
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YOUR BEING A RESIDENT OF your own
place does not guarantee you safety of travel in the hinterlands during
darkness. To a certain degree you might be tolerated in the lowlands, near the
highways, but in the hilly areas, it is certainly not a good idea. After dusk,
locals would be watchful of strangers straying into their places. In the age of
mobile phones, it would now be easy to report your presence to the authorities.
Cebu, as was everywhere else in the Philippines, experienced a “red scare” in the 1980s up to the early years of the second millennium. Armed strangers were always sighted and reported in the hinterlands visiting villages and farming communities. There was fear, confusion and oppression during those times and it created bad memories for the villagers long after the government had cleared these remote areas of lawlessness.
As visitors, or tourists, it is our
responsibility to make courtesy calls to every village centers (barangay halls)
and military detachments that we pass by and present to them our identification
cards and documents that we are not what they suspect us to be. If need be,
register your names in their visitor’s record book and place your destination
for the day. Never forget to smile and greet everyone along the way.
Never set up a campsite without asking first their permission. Stop with plenty of daylight hours left on the last village center before claiming a campsite. Never do it on the last minutes of daytime. Do it on official government hours – between 08:00 and 16:00; not at 17:00, 17:30 or 18:00. Do not scrimp on time. What matters most is your safety. Good practices like these would remove suspicions.
Before proceeding on your journey,
make sure that you visit seats of government to make known your purpose on
places where they have less control over tourist travel or on places where
peace and order are still suspect. Make a letter, with itinerary, addressed to a
governor or a mayor and to the chief of police or a district commander and insist
to have a received copy. This is another good practice that would bolster your
authenticity.
In this pandemic, travel protocols are allowed only at certain areas and not all local government units have the same or uniform policies pertaining to this. You must spend time to remove these gray areas by visiting each LGU where you would intend to pass. Finally, never ever travel during the election campaign period.
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WARRIOR PILGRIMAGE BLOG, personified by this writer, is synonymous with the Outdoors, since Bushcraft and Survival is its niche. Safety and Security are its bedrock when it ventured into organizing outdoor events that involved people as in adventure/pilgrimage guideships and seminars; and explorations and expeditions.
Through tutorship, experience, folk
knowledge and good old common sense, this writer was able to collect useful
information which he is currently documenting in a book titled, ETHICAL
BUSHCRAFT. He shares some of this information and knowledge in his training
sessions; in his social-media account; and in this blog.
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