Writer Marina Jimenez didn’t even know what canyoneering meant before her recent trip to the Philippines. And yet, somehow she found herself donning a helmet and poised to jump off a cliff into the Kawasan Falls. (Spoiler alert: It ended well.) Described as hard-core hiking in canyons with rappelling, sliding and scrambling, canyoneering was just one of the madcap adventures Jimenez experienced in the archipelago, where she discovered that the wildest places often bring us closer to ourselves. Read more.

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