Kultura Kamp

Happy birthday to our dear photographer Yumi!
To more adventures!

Love,

Kultura Kamp Team

Yay!! Certificates and gifts from the HSBC competition earlier! :) Thank you for the opportunity Ateneo JGSOM and HSBC!

Gave a short talk on Social Entrepreneurship at the HSBC Business Case Competition in Ateneo today! Thank you Sir Jay for the opportunity! :)

Check it out! We got featured in Muni PH's travel goup suggestions alongside our friends ISDA, Route +63 and Trail Adventures! :)

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Morning conversations with Nanay Ofel!

The sun is out and summer is here - the best time to take on a new adventure! Here's a list of our upcoming camps

BOOK NOW!
Embark. Embrace. Empower.
http://kulturakamp.com/

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2D/ 1N JUNGLE SURVIVAL CAMP: Php 5,200.00*
Abelling Tribe, San Jose, Tarlac

Lessons cover the following topics:
- Proper use of itak
- Trap making
- Cooking
- Shelter building
- Herbal remedies 101
- Bird calls
- Worksheet for Jungle Survival
- Cultural Night

2D / 1N AGRICULTURE CAMP: Php 5,200
Aeta Community, Sta. Juliana, Tarlac

- Grounds Exploration and Firewood Gathering
- Bamboozle: The Uses of Bamboo
- The ways of the Itak: Proper Usage of the Itak
- Stargazing & Firefly Watching
- Cultural Night
- Dororo (Prayer)
- Talbeng (Traditional Ritual)
- Banana and Kamote Roasting by the Bonfire
- Traditional dances
- Hike to the Gasak
- Breakfast at the Farm
- Food Gathering (Using Newly Learned Skills)

2D/ 1N NATURE CAMP: Php 4,500*
Abelling Tribe, San Jose, Tarlac

- Hike to Mt. Matalukbaba (may vary depending on Kampers’ ability to climb)
- Trek to falls (if weather permits)
- Camping
- Bird watching
- Plant Hunt
- Cultural Night

ALL PACKAGES are INCLUSIVE of the following:
- Pre-camp orientation
- Audio recording of basic local words
- Land transportation from Manila - Tarlac - Manila
- Meals / Lodging
- Kultura Kamp and Local Facilitators
- Camp Journal
- Worksheets
- Kultura Kamp shirt

* We offer a rate of Php Php 6,200 for Jungle Survival Camping and Php 5,700.00 for Nature Camp especially for kids, this package includes a private van for transportation (MNL-SAN JOSE-MNL). We can also customize a trip for a group of at least 5 participants.

Leave us a message or email us at [email protected] if you have any questions or special requests! We are more than glad to help! See you!

We have a new community in San Jose, Tarlac! The Abelling Tribe is a community of people who have a love for mountaineering and area exploration. Come with us for a weekend of camping out in one of the San Jose mountains or riversides and have a different kind of experience this summer!

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2D/ 1N JUNGLE SURVIVAL CAMP: Php 5,200.00*

Lessons cover the following topics:
- Proper use of itak
- Trap making
- Cooking
- Shelter building
- Herbal remedies 101
- Bird calls
- Worksheet for Jungle Survival

2D/ 1N ABELLING NATURE CAMP: Php 4,500*

- Hike to Mt. Matalukbaba (may vary depending on Kampers’ ability to climb)
- Trek to falls (if weather permits)
- Camping
- Bird watching
- Plant Hunt

Both packages are inclusive of the following:
- Pre-camp orientation
- Audio recording of basic Aberlling words
- Land transportation from Manila - San Jose - Manila
- Meals / Lodging
- Kultura Kamp and Abelling Facilitators
- Camp Journal
- Worksheets
- Kultura Kamp shirt

* We offer a rate of Php Php 6,200 for Jungle Survival Camping and Php 5,700.00 for Nature Camp especially for kids, this package includes a private van for transportation (MNL-SAN JOSE-MNL). We can also customize a trip for a group of at least 5 participants.
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BOOK NOW!
Embark. Embrace. Empower.
http://kulturakamp.com/

Last weekend, the Abelling tribe gave us the privilege of being their guests for their Pag-Aanito Festival, the first in ten years. We also had the honor of having Jacob Maentz Photography join us for the event.

We would like to thank Jacob and the Kamusta? Magazine team for covering the festival and sharing in our vision! :D Thank you guys!

I’m back in the Philippines after a few weeks out getting my annual dose of cold weather. I made it back in time to witness a unique ritual practiced by the Abelling tribe of Tarlac. This is the first time they have performed the ritual in 10 years and unique it is.

The Abelling Tribe believe that Anitos (spirits) will reveal to them certain parts of their future by inhabiting the body of a tribe elder for a given time. For this to happen, the elders perform a long-standing ritual that lasts for three days. There is constant dancing where spirits enter the bodies of the elders and on the last day a pig is sacrificed and the elders drink the blood of the dying pig. The home where the ritual takes places is decorated with bamboo, hanging food and other symbolic items. There was a lot of fainting and dramatic chanting as the spirits entered the bodies of the elders. A couple of writers also happened to be there who will hopefully tell with more complete details the specifics this complicated ritual.

Here one of the elders does a small dance after drinking pigs blood on the last day of the ritual.

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Apong Totoy possesses one of the most powerful Anitos of the Abelling :D

These are rice puffs or "pinipig" in tagalog. They are freshly harvested, peeled, roasted, and pounded! We actually got to try our hand at the pounding station, but it proved to be very challenging for beginners like us!

The Aetas mix these rice puffs with freshly squeezed coconut milk and sugar to create a very delicious and sweet snack. We loved it so much that they made small containers out of bamboo shoots and so we could take some of it home!

"Community based tourism enables the tourist to discover local habitats and wildlife, and celebrates and respects traditional cultures, rituals and wisdom. The community will be aware of the commercial and social value placed on their natural and cultural heritage through tourism, and this will foster community based conservation of these resources. "

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