The Location:
sitio Lawis is located in Barangay Punta Silum Manticao, Misamis Oriental. It is far from National Road and it needs to passes the road trail before it reach the Place. Urbanized areas are also far from the place and starting in Barangay Poblacion Manticao, it needs to do traveling for almost an hour depends on the traffic. The travel fair costs up to 20 Pesos each. Different kinds of Public vehicles like Buses, tricycles, trucks, Jeeps and Cars can ride on in order to reach Sitio Lawis.
Sitio lawis contains lots of water channels of bodies of water just like streams. This areas were two streams connected with it each other. This two water channels are came from mountains. The cliffs are covered with wild grass and big trees. Because of the intense heat happens here, the water keeps drying and the Big stones are already showed up. There are also pool of water stocked up and some big fish in the Pond. This streams lead down to the coastal areas, some roots of the big trees are also shown to the surface because of the soil erosions. Lots of wild animals like birds can be seen in the areas and some of those animals are making its nests on the branches of the trees.
Near at the stream is this big hill were lots of coconut trees grows. Even if it is a kind of slope areas, still there are lota of valuable plants and crops like Coconuts and bananas planted by the Farmer. In fact, some of the place here at the hill are already developed into an Agricultural site. Coconut plants are already produced lots of coconut fruits and some of it are ready to harvest by next Month.
This high cliff were lots of big native trees like Molave, Germilina and Mahogany grows. It keep the cliff of not getting eroded everytime when there is a strong big flood happens. Wild plants like Anahaw and some wild flowers also grows in here. Here in Barangay Punta Silum, this place was already well presserved that is why many kinds of trees and wild plants can be found here. Until now, this place was filled and planted with trees and the stream are remain clean. Sitios lawis is perfect site to do Camping activities and mountain climbing adventure.
If we do mountain hiking or adventure, it must be careful to walked in the stone because of its slippery brought by fresh water. Ferns are grows and some mushrooms plants can be seen here. The water comes from the stream is very cold and clear, it can be seen those sands and stones under water. It is a kind of perfect spots to swim in the stream because of the coolness of water.
This road trails will leads to the simple coconut drier structure and we called it "Landahan". This structure helps to make the coconut meat turn into copra, the coconut meat will dried and smoked in here so it will isntantly dried.
According to the rumor here, this very big chunk of stones was rolled down from the top of the hill many decades already. As for that, lots of wild plants already grows on the stones. Sitio Lawis is a perfect spot for summer adventure, aside of that we can relaxed our self and have a peace of mind.
Thank you for visiting and reading my post, have a safe travel everyone.
