Zamboanga: Pasonanca Park Fun
Pansonanca Park Tree house
Hi guys, advance Happy All Souls day to you all! The next update will be sometime next week as I’m sure some of you will be out on a trip either for visiting their departed love ones at their provinces or out on a personal trip. Whichever it my be, have a safe journey and bring back more stories as well. This is my last entry on Zamboanga, I think I’ve already exhausted my materials and it’s time to get some more. I hope you guys enjoy this entry on Pasonanca Natural Park. The park which was opened last June 2004 in Sitio Canacutan in Barangay Pasonanca, which is around 20-minutes drive from city proper is considered as one of Zamboanga’s Pride.
Inspecting the tree house
The park boast at least 17,400 hectares and 90% of the area is a forest high in biodiversity of flora and fauna. And what better way to experience the area is by staying at Zamboanga’s famous Tree House. I’ve always wanted to stay at a tree house since a kid I’ve envied those children at TV with their tree houses at their backyards. This tree house has been here even befre the park. It was built by local legend Mayor Cesar Climaco in 1960. They said visitors are allowed to stay at the tree house for a night or two with permission from the Mayor’s office. The house was locked when we were there but looking inside it seems to have the basic facilities one would need. if I had known we could stay here we could booked ahead.
Scout Tents at the park
The park has also been a popular setting for camping activities especially for boy scouts and girl scouts. Fitting place indeed with such a wide ground area. Also to make it easier for the scouts, they already made some huts there for their use.
Goofing around the park stage
Nearby the camping area is a multi purpose outdoor auditorium and stage. And in the middle there are these circular stands for purposes we do not know. But it was a nice place to get some decent pictures for our purpose.
Hanging bridge
While on the road we saw this hanging bridge. Nothing really special about it we just figured in checking it out. There’s a river there were some locals were doing their laundry.
Freedom Park Canyons
We also managed to visit what the legendary Mayor Climaco considered his “labor of love”, the Freedom Park. Here at this hill, you could have an overlooking view of the Pasonanca Park. There we found some canyons also known as the “Guns of Aggression”, probably used during the war. Also placed there on what seemed to be a large helmet designed mausoleum is the remains of a unknown soldier.
Climaco memorial and Mt. Pulumbato behind
Also nearby is the burial ground of Zamboanga’s well loved mayor Cesar C. Climaco. He has done a lot of good in Zamoanga and it was a shocking news when he was assassinated in November 14, 1984. He was shot in the head with a .45 caliber pistol. This hill is also the jump-off point to Mt. Pulumbato. It was fairly an easy climb to the peak as the trail has the stations of the cross. We didn’t climb there though as my companions were already tired out and the sun was just blazing at that time.
Tags: Climaco, Pansonanca, Parks, Tree House, Zamboanga City
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 at 12:36 pm 
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October 30th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
sana mapuntahan ko rin yang pagpunta ko zamboanga. kailan kaya yun?
October 30th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
zamboanga is definitely one place i need to visit.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Oh, I want to go there someday and see Mayor Climaco’s legacy. You know my great-grandparents put him through school in Manila. My great-grandfather actually died in the young Climaco’s arms.
October 30th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
hahaha loved the 3rd pic cute!!am dreaming of having a tree house like that! Very nice!
October 31st, 2007 at 2:40 am
cute group pics, man!
katuwa po.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:44 am
i like the park stage shot, parang 2nd childhood hehe
October 31st, 2007 at 8:35 am
hi Ferdz
I love the tree house. Like you it is also a childhood dream..well actually I still want to have a tree house but I don’t know if that’s ever going to happen hehe
The hanging bridge btw looks scary hehe
Enjoy the long vacation and I hope you don’t mind if I link you. Cheers!
October 31st, 2007 at 8:49 am
amzing and fun pics. di ba nakakatakot sa zamboanga?
October 31st, 2007 at 11:51 am
Lovely treehouse. I think that’s the biggest one I’ve seen so far.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:45 pm
i like the tree house. i want to have one.
now. now. now. hehehe.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:57 pm
nice series on zamboanga.
that hanging bridge looks long, me likey! 
did you try to jump? hehehehe
happy long weekend
October 31st, 2007 at 4:03 pm
awwww! been there last year. but none of my shots can tell the story of how great the trip was
shoddy hands again.
October 31st, 2007 at 9:06 pm
I really love the fourth picture! You guys look so much fun there! Love the pose.
October 31st, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Happy Halloween to you Ferdz!
(:
The place looked really, really fun to be at especially the tree house! It was once my dream to have a tree house; when I was young though.
November 1st, 2007 at 1:09 am
ei fred, i’m joeyalaiza, also a finalist in the PWA personal category. i just found your blog very interesting and i believe we have a lot in common. i also love travelling and photography. invite me sometime. there’s a lot of place i wanna see. goodluck!
November 1st, 2007 at 7:30 pm
I’ve been to this place quite a number of times already, since I was a child, but going back there is always an experience, giving harbor and fresh breather from the urban environment, with nature still lush and the air is still fresh.
By the way, it’s Mt. Pulongbato and not Columbato. The path that leads to the cross is just hafway to the peak. But the trail to the peak is not that hard to climb, and the view is so good up there.
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:51 am
that tree house looks really inviting.
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Uy, nakakamiss! we used to bathe here pag weekend noong elementary days ko sa Ateneo in Zambo.
November 2nd, 2007 at 8:46 pm
tagal ko na pinapangarap makatulog sa isang tree house… lalo na kung ganyan kaganda… heheh
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:18 am
Looks like a giant birdhouse! Are you certain its safe to sit up there? LOL.
On Guam we have alot of those war remnant guns from WWII also.
November 5th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
My mom has a picture taken at the treehouse more than 30 years ago. I’ve never been to this park.
November 5th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
i just met with my friend from zamboanga and he was telling me a lot of nice things about zamboanga. he was inviting me to visit, and maybe next year i would be free from work and attend the la hermosa festival.
i just came back from my recent trip to bacolod city for their annual masskara festival and took pictures and shot some videos. i also visited silay city, dumaguete city, and siquijor. i would like to share them with you.
here it the link of my blog at http://biyahengpinoy.blogspot.com/
November 6th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
nice pic s ferdz! i love the tree house.. cool!
and the group pic on the circular thing was really nice 
November 9th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
The mountain behind the park is called Pulumbato.
November 13th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Nice photos and nice story telling once again, Ferdz…
February 1st, 2008 at 2:28 pm
i lake the place its very important to all zeta phi omega and pasonanca is the place where our founders and his life didecated to the place of zamboanga we glad that we have a greet history of him
October 9th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Loved the photos of the tree house, the Boy Scout Camp, the “Guns of Aggression” and the hanging bridge. The hanging bridges were always scary to me as a kid, especially when there were a lot of people crossing at the same time because you couldn’t balance too well as the bridge swayed this way and that! My dad’s gravesite looks well cared for.