Arakan: Suman with hot Cacao-time!

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It was a perfect weather to take the ATV for a ride along the Bukidnon-Davao (BUDA) road. Fascinated by the fresh, clean and crisp air above this God-given place of about 4,200feet above the sea level, made you so easily forget the hustle and bustle of and in Davao City!

An area near the highway. Here are pine trees! *me freaking out* *feeling Christmas*

The road from Davao City to Arakan, Buda road is the same route going to Cagayan de Oro, which takes about 6 hours.

Plants, plants... everywhere.

We drove with this tiny yet super fast vehicle about 20kms down the road. Along the road, we saw incredibly many little vendors offering flower and plants at very incredible prices! One vendor shared that those plant and flower stalls we see often during exhibitions in SM Mall or Abreeza are mainly small-time entrepreneurs from this very area, trying to make a good mark-up in the big city.

The next vendor sold strawberry plants and actual strawberries and self-made strawberry jam. Not as big and reddish as those we might find in the ref displayed and ready to be sold in S&R or anywhere else downtown, but you can be assured of its freshness and organic treatment.

After passing countless of these beautiful green stalls, we reached the well known Seagull Mountain Resort in Barangay Lorega.

The parking area near the Seagul coffee.

As an insider tip: Beside that resort, you will not miss a Phoenix gasoline station. Do you see the Seagull coffee shop right behind? Stay there for a while and enjoy their best-seller: Special Suman with hot Cacao! (for Php65.00)

This delicacy is served hot on a woven straw plate. Their version of Suman (a rice cake made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, and often steamed wrapped) is served in a banana leaf sprinkled with sesame and pinipig! Very delicious and a wonderful treat after a long road trip.

The cacao is raw and unsweetened - our health conscious and diabetic friends would love it! Just in case, they will place a brown sugar to go with it. And it tastes unbelievable great and new!