Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
0500H Depart the Hotel for your Marlboro Hill and Blue Soil Trek Tour. Marlboro Hill has become the
go-to sunrise-viewing spot. From the jump off point, you will be hiking for about 20 minutes to reach
the viewpoint. There are also small local stores selling “champorado” (a local Filipino dish where
sticky rice is mixed with hot cocoa, sugar and mik), “sopas” (noodles with soup and vegetables),
and “arroz caldo” (Filipinos’ version of congee) on site. Most visitors would just watch the sunrise,
take photos, and then hike back to where they came from. But what we recommend is to continue
the trek to the Blue Soil Hill, locally called Kaman-utek. Along the way, you’ll pass by several scenic
sites including more spectacular viewpoints and limestone cliffs. It’s a downhill trek so it’s not that
difficult. Then, you’ll reach Blue Soil Hill, which gets its powder blue color from the high amounts of
copper sulfate in the soil. You can take a rest here and have a quick bite. The trek takes around 2
hours, depending on your pace. But the whole activity from pick up and Marlboro sunrise to the end
of the trek lasts 4-5 hours.