The Masungi Georeserve Survival Guide

I’ve been wanting to visit this place since they first opened in late 2015. I don’t remember exactly how I first heard about it. I think a friend may have shared their website on Facebook or some ad popped up on my feed. But whatever the source, I do remember one thing clearly – I became enamored with the place from the first moment I saw it. It just looked so damn cool.

Masungi Georeserve has made its rounds on social media so you may be familiar with it. If you aren’t, it’s a geological park and conservation area in Baras, Rizal about an hour-and-a-half away from Manila. There you’ll find a hiking trail featuring rope walls, hanging bridges, and unique viewing platforms suspended over limestone karsts and a lush tropical rainforest. If you think Masungi is just another mountain with nature trails for hiking, it isn’t. It’s so much more than that. It’s a fusion of nature and human engineering which has produced one of the most unique trekking…