Mambukal

The Jarman family have been lucky enough to get some family out to visit them already! On Sunday after church we tagged along as they took Bobbi's sister and her family up into the mountains to Mambukal. It's a mountain resort found at the base of a volcano here on Negros Island. It has a couple of sulphur hot springs, one is so hot you can't touch it or go in and the other is so relaxing and nice. There is also a couple of normal temperature pools, a climbing wall, a tram, hikes to waterfalls, some foods, butterfly gardens and of course places for the resort goers to stay.
The first thing that I was able to do was go on the tram over the river. Ryan and Lance have already been there and done that with some of the gang at Focus so Bobbi and I decided to test it out together. We hung upside down and with the blood flowing like crazy to our heads we zipped down the line to meet everyone waiting for us on the other side.

After the zip line the boys went up to the waterfalls and us girls took the kids to the pool to cool down for little bit. Madison and Scarlett had cute matching swim suits, I just couldn't resist these cute little girls!

The boys also were able to go swimming but in the fresh water! They hiked up to the 4th of 7 waterfalls. The hike is up the mountain in the hot humid heat and it takes about an hour to get up there. Once they made it up to the 4th set of falls they saw a bunch of the mountain kids cliff jumping into the river. Ryan had a blast taking pictures of the kids while they were jumping and then showing them the shots so they could see what they looked like! Apparently one of the guys had these sweet ninja moves and Ryan got some great shots of these kids playing around. I can imagine them smiling and laughing with those dark brown faces and great big white teeth filled smiles as they were looking at themselves on the camera. Of course the guys did some moves of their own to refresh themselves after the hot, sweaty walk up the mountain. Unfortunately by the time the guys made it back the hike was closed since it was getting close to sunset so us girls didn't get to go. Bummer, BUT next time for sure!

One of the things that Mambukal is famous for are the huge bats that live up in the tree's. We have a lot of bats that fly around our neighborhood at night as they eat those bugs at dusk, sometimes swooping just above your head but we don't have anything like the bats up at Mambukal! They really are the biggest bats I've ever seen, even in the zoo.