“Not all catastrophe brings devastating blow, some brings beautifying glow.”
Inambakan Falls is located in the barangay of Calabawan, Ginatilan Southern Cebu, a 5th class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. Inambakan Falls is the municipality’s amusing natural wonders. Hidden in a river valley in the middle of Ginatilan’s highlands, the towering 100-feet (30 m) waterfall.

Inambakan Falls | 1st level | 100-feet (30 m) waterfall.

Inambakan Falls is one of the most adventurous falls I’d ever met, a falls with a multi-level trek. I could define the falls as jumping falls since the word “ambak” in Cebuano is “jump” https://www.binisaya.com/cebuano/ambak. The way the water flows is jumping step by step, layer by layer. And maybe, this is why the local citizens named it “Inambakan Falls” derived from the word “ambak”. Adventurous, because in the higher level you have to climb up hundreds of stairs and every stepping stone you step takes a lot of force to climb up, a lot of effort to reach to the top. Your knees and legs will signal your brain “Oh, no stop I’m tired!” but the brain pushes you towards your goal that there is something up there you need to see. A beautiful natural water formation created by nature. Inambakan Falls will help you take away your stress, mind free from any doubts can make inner peace put into calmness, the birds’ chirping gives you joy, the greenery forest gives coolness to your eyes and the turquoise-colored water gives you refreshments. All of these aspects of nature you will experience. Regrets never exist in this place, I assure you. If so, you badly need to stay in this area as soon as you feel well. And it is worth fighting for. 😉 

Segmented waterfall in Inambakan Falls ​| 2nd level

In the first layer of Inambakan Falls, it is easy to endure no sweat, you will see 100-feet tall falls and a turquoise-colored water pool beneath. The time we visit there is around 2 o’clock in the afternoon, sunny day and we saw a rainbow drawn because of the reflection of the sunlight at the bottom. How fascinating! You could really see the two tip ends of the rainbow, when I was still a child my grandparents told me there is gold in the tip of the rainbow. And this is the answer to what my grandparents told me so. “Rainbow is the mark of the golden beauty of nature”.

Rainbow spotted in Inambakan Falls ​| 1st level

How to get in Inambakan Falls

From Cebu City South Bus Terminal, ride a public bus that travels to Samboan (via Barili) it’s about 3hrs (no traffic). Tell the driver to drop you off Ginatilan town proper. Then hire a habal habal to bring you to Ginatilan waterfalls. The fee per person for entry is 50 pesos. The tourists’ guides there were very friendly. They will surely accompany you very well if you want to cliff jump, the tourist guide jumps first and you will follow for your safety purposes.  Let me remind you, before heading to Inambakan Falls make sure your legs and knees are quite tight and strong. Weak legs and knees may find you arduous climbing the mountain. If you are prone to carsick and willing to travel make sure to take up some medicines. Update the weather if it is a sunny day, consult a tour guide for a very well-experienced adventure. Risk is everywhere, so make the best of your life.
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