On our way, we saw a small community which water supply is supported by a Canal that is connected from the river irrigated to the houses to provide the people a usable water for washing and bathing purposes.

This is a group picture in a bridge of an unfinished dam together with our "habal habal" drivers . This dam is found under a bridge that we had  passed in going to San Jose.

In this dam, we found out that people used to fetch drinking water beside this river. There is a very small and shallow well which is covered with rocks a the side. "Maybe this water is safe"

When we are able to arrive in San Jose, our first and foremost step to start the gathering of information was to visit their Barangay Hall. There we met Hon. Kagawad Crispin M. Sulanting who's the first one we had encountered and has allowed us to go further in San Jose for us to discover more about the wonders of their culture.

Right in front of the San Jose Barangay Hall is the San Jose Elemantary School where only few rooms and teachers are available for a large number of enrolled students. They don't have a proper school uniform. Students are wearing their ordinary dresses everyday. We observed that they are only wearing slippers but most of them are barefooted.

The students wake up very early in the morning and walk a kilometer just to reach the school in time.

One source of their livelihood is farming, this man with his carabao had just arrived from his farm.

Were very unlucky that the weather didn't jive in our journey to Purok 2 Kalubihan. It is a rainy day that made the river muddy and fast flowing. But the journey must go on.

The road not taken....

This is the Purok 2 Kalubihan where in the houses are widely dispersed and is composed of only one family, Molatin. This community doesn't have any electric supply but instead they use batteries to run radios.

This a picture of an old B'laan lady sitting on her Obra Maestra (Banig) She is very proud to present to us their purely B'laan made Banig.

We interviewed the Purok Chairman in their community and showed us a sample of their B'laan costumes.

B'laan people are being appreciated because of being hospitable and a peace loving person. Everytime we had an interview with the residents, the are welcoming us in their home even if its too small for all of them, but still they are proud of it.

After we reach the Purok 2 Kalubihan, we decided to go further because we've got an information that more native B'laans are living on the high areas of San Jose. So another traveling has begun.

Up, up and away! We had our shortcut together with our tour guides. We climbed a mountain to reach the Purok 4. But we're not able to go there because we're running out of time and our knees are already shrinking.

We've gone through half of San Jose, traveling deep parts of forests searching for a small community that we could interview to gather more information about the native cultures of B'laan.