River of Fun
By Resy King
@resy21curapika (2127)
Pasay, Philippines
August 21, 2022 7:17am CST
That was my first time to swim in a river. My husband's cousins together with their family went to Nagcarlan, Laguna. It is a place in Luzon, Philippines where hot spirngs and swimming pools/ resorts are popular.
It is a 2-hour drive from Manila to that specific part in Laguna. We all brought something to cook later in the woods. Then we stayed under a nipa hut as a cottage and all of us eat and drink. We also sang our hearts out during the videoke session.
This is something we don't do often. It was only plan out of the blue as soon as the cousins of my husband suddenly decides to swim out of nowhere. There is a saying that "It is better to go out somewhere unplanned rather than planning it for months then it's not going to push through". Imagine all that frustrations when a plan does not happens or materialize.
Have you gone to a swimming before? What was your experiences?
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@RebeccasFarm (87041)
• United States
21 Aug 22
How much fun this time was for you.
I would love to do something like this. I go nowhere at this time.
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@resy21curapika (2127)
• Pasay, Philippines
21 Aug 22
We started driving on the road at 9AM. It was supposed to take only 2 hours but due to traffic even on a Saturday, we arrived at 12NN. We started cooking pancit, adobo and grilled fish at 12:30PM and we started our lunch at 1:30PM. It was a bit late but still tasty. Then we drink brandy from 2PM upto 5PM then went home. We arrived home at 8PM.
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@RebeccasFarm (87041)
• United States
21 Aug 22
That certainly is a lovely photo too by the way.
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@resy21curapika (2127)
• Pasay, Philippines
21 Aug 22
Thank you so much. That's mu husband, by the way. I am taller than him though but that's okay.
@popciclecold (35973)
• United States
21 Aug 22
No, that's too much water for me. Great photo.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
21 Aug 22
Laguna is a beautiful province, lots of rivers, hot springs, resorts to swim and mountains to climb and hike, been there in different places countless times. Since I'm from the South it's near our city. I'm glad you had a nice time swimming in the river, did you visit the underground cemetery?
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@resy21curapika (2127)
• Pasay, Philippines
25 Aug 22
Not yet, I haven't got into there. Is it near in Nagcarlan, Laguna as well? Please tell me more about it.
I only known Laguna as hot spring spot / Team building capital of the Philippines 
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
25 Aug 22
@resy21curapika the underground cemetery is in Nagcarlan, built during the Spanish era it became the meeting place of the " Katpuneros "I think the hero Emilio Jacinto was captured there, it's very historic too bad you did not see it, next time
@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
22 Aug 22
I love wild open air swimming, though I have not been able to in recent years I hope to get a chance to do it again soon
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@resy21curapika (2127)
• Pasay, Philippines
23 Aug 22
Hope you get your chance again soon. It was my first time swimming here. Normally I'd go to the sea or pools when it comes to swimming but this was my first.
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
24 Aug 22
@resy21curapika hope you get to do it again soon
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@Beestring (13552)
• Hong Kong
21 Aug 22
I love swimming. But in the past two years, I've not been to the beach or pool due to Covid.
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@resy21curapika (2127)
• Pasay, Philippines
21 Aug 22
Yeah, I was such a bummer last 2 years due to COVID. I got stuck at home as well. It was scary times but it got better nowadays because we have vaccines already here where we at. I hope you got vaccines in there, too.
@sathviksouvik (18216)
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10 Dec 22
the photo is awesome. I envy you. You got such a lovely river to swim
