walls of rock in dakak

From the Camila Hotel in Dipolog, we took a motorcab (like a pedicab, fare 7 pesos each) to "Satellite" which is their bus and van-for-hire terminal. We got on an air conditioned van that brought us to Dapitan City terminal in 30 minutes for 25 pesos each. At the V-hire terminal there were plenty of habal-habal motorcycles that would bring us to Dakak resort for 100 pesos per motorcycle per way. A lot of haggling happened here as their initial asking price was 200 per motorcycle. As one motorcycle could seat two passengers, I think this was a pretty good price (50 pesos per person per way).

The ride from the Dapitan terminal to the resort took about 20 minutes and it was a great ride because of the wind on our faces, which we wouldn't have had if we took a van to the resort. The trip was also interesting because the road to Dakak Resort was being widened and concreted and heavy equipment had cut up part of the sides of the mountains to make way for the roads. The walls of the mountains were made of multi-colored rocks. The rocks and soil were predominantly orange, some slate grays and occasionally, there were slabs of blue that were chipped off the mountain. Rumor has it that there is actually a gold mine beneath all these rocks.

rock wall, in various colours

orange rock and soil

interesting slabs of blue
(they even say that underneath, there's some gold, too)

at Dakak resort itself,
there's a wall made up of these different coloured rocks