Hagonoy

My work in an agricultural company often brings me to remote areas and far flung places. This week we were assigned to Hagonoy to check out their newly set up Papaya operations. Hagonoy is a municipality of Davao Del sur, about 30 kms or an hour drive from Davao City. I and two other officemates went there last Monday. We went there wary and already bored. The first time we visited the area, we joked that we found “the village”. The place was so quiet and seems uninhabited with houses a mile from each other with rice and sugar cane fields in between. Cows, scarecrows and farmers working in the field seem to be the only creatures moving about. However, the place sprung us some few surprises. I actually had a good time. Who wouldn’t? With those refreshing countryside sceneries that I mocked in the first place…the endless expanse of green fields of rice by day and the heavenly bodies at night   My eyes were treated to a vista of the crescent moon hanging against a backdrop of the inky black sky. And the stars..I’ve never seen so many stars in my entire life. There were practically no electrical posts to diminish the dark night, thus the stars are so vivid.  It almost made a poet out of me…almost.

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