Strolling around Port Barton, you will all too often run into aspiring local guides offering you tours to, amongst a great variety of other destinations, the waterfalls. They speak about Pamuayan Waterfall.
You definitely don’t need a guide to go there. Pamuayan Waterfall is located a mere 5.6 km northeast from Port Barton. The place is easily accessible on foot in less than two hours. If you aren’t fond of walking, you can always hire a tricycle to take you there, which shouldn’t be that very expensive. But I would personally recommend you better use your legs, as the hike to the falls is a great experience on its own.
To get to Pamuayan Waterfall on foot, follow the beach to its northern end and walk up the trail you will find there. That will soon lead you to a paved road. Go left and, just a few meters later, you’ll see a dirt road branching off uphills to the left. Follow this for about 300 m, you will go past a cemetery on your left hand, until you meet the paved road once again. You follow the paved road north for about 1.5 km until it ends and forks into two dirt roads (fork junction coordinates: 10.4266, 119.1898).
There you take the right one. After some 2 km, you encounter a bunch of little shops and a registration office of sorts. You will be asked to write down your details and submit a donation. Of what we’ve seen in the registration book, most preceding visitors had left 100 or 200 pesos. That’s outright ridiculous in my opinion. We didn’t pay anything. Emotionalism aside, I’m not used to be asked for money to visit a waterfall, anywhere in the world. They were very startled and unhappy for not getting their easy dough, and they showed that with rude and vehement gazes, but what could I do? It wasn’t my idea that they make a living by waiting idly before the falls all day long. And given the bountiful donations typical tourists give, they should be making better money than me, anyway.
From there you continue through a beautiful jungle trail for about one more km, and there you are at Pamuayan Waterfall. It was a beautiful one, secluded deep in the enchanting forest. The fall itself is about 30 meters tall and forms a deep-enough-to-swim pool at its base. On the left side of the pool, there is a climbable rock that can be used as a platform for cliff-jumping. We were there in the afternoon and it was relatively crowded. I reckon you would experience it at its best if you go early morning instead.
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