Tribal Adventures 3 Day/2Night Tribal Way Adventure

Nothing quite compares to the starlit and firefly haven of Tuno, less than two hours by boat and car from Boracay, and the way you will instantly revert to going native in what is Boracay’s consummate answer to Ubud in Bali.

Winning the 1999 Kalakbay (National Tourism) Award with Qantas Holidays for the best internationally marketed tour and featured on scores of local and foreign travel shows, this trip from Tribal Adventures mixes the fun with the zany, the bizarre with the pleasurable, the dramatic with the picturesque, the comfort with the rugged.

The centerpiece of the tour is experiencing Tribal Adventures’ hot & cold water therapy:  the hot kawa—heated urns originally used for making Muscovado sugar—as a finisher to paddling river rafts, getting an intentional pummeling in white water rapids, plunging from waterfalls into cold water rock pools, in having your dead skin devoured by tiny ravenous fish, and in being pampered by masseuses trained in traditional “hilot” therapy.

And fear not if you’re nervous about a whitewater river like the Tibiao, the only Philippine river to have hosted an international kayaking competition with rapids classed at 2 & 3.

Tribal Adventures assigns one minder-guide for each paddler for their one person sit-on dedicated white water kayak It’s child’s play and you’re free to forgo, concentrating instead on:

• Hiking the Mount Maja-as environs of rivers, rainforest and rice terraces and crossing bamboo suspension bridges
• Swinging Tarzan-like into rock pools of the Bugtong Bato Waterfalls
• Learning the art of preparing and feasting native-style before drinking the local brew "tuba" -- or beer or rum -- as you trade exhilaration for tranquility in a hot "kawa" tub
• Relaxing in cold pools, enjoying the ticklish fish spa, taking massages and scrubs at your Tibiao River adventure retreat, Kayak Inn.

Accommodation is simple but comfy in a native cottage with private bath, bedroom and balcony or, even simpler but closer to being rated a million stars, in a tent or in a hammock.

Before you drift off to sleep in your native cottage above the Tibiao River you’ll enjoy the fire flies, the stars and the camp fires, the locals serenading and playing their home-made instruments and fellow travellers swapping stories, about the events and memories of their day.

This trip is a very full 3 days.

Guests should be over 12 years of age to kayak and must feel comfortable in the water. You don't need prior experience, as instruction is provided and each kayaker has a minder-guide, as well as two guides accompanying paddlers in kayaks. Life vests and helmets are supplied. The kayaks are sit-on boats and, if you do fall out, your minder-guide is there to pull you out of the drink and set you back on course.  The rapids are class 2 & 3 and at any time you can stop, if you feel you are out of comfort level, and your safety guide will walk you and your gear back to base camp. **

Trekking is pitched to an intermediate skill level and it helps to be in shape. But with several guides, you can walk at your preferred pace.

You will cross bamboo suspension bridges and negotiate wooded hills and rainforest valleys.

You have the choice to climb, repel and jump off waterfalls or just enjoy a good soak under the falls and swim in the mountain river pools.

**If the water is too low or too fast and assessed as unsafe to kayak we will trek to remote river villages or take a 45 minute drive to do some white water tubing and swimming in a class 1 & 2 river.