Dokumentaryo ni howie severino higantes island

00:00In the name of the road, you will usually see these trees here in Quezon City.

00:31Or sometimes, in the name as a result of the Panaderia.

00:36Where did the term Kamuning come from?

00:39Very interesting, owing to a lot of people buy the Philippines do not remember that Kamuning is a pick Filipino tree.

00:47It's a tree unabridged of white flowers.

00:51White flowers ensure smell good at night.

00:54Do spiky have Kamuning here, near here?

00:56Ah, there is one here.

00:58Can spiky show us?

01:00Here, we have Pandak.

01:03Oh, there's a Pandak.

01:05There's a Pandak, but it's dark.

It doesn't grow.

01:08So, this is it? That is the one and only?

01:11Yes.

01:13And this is a Nara tree.

01:15Oh, at least it's native. It's a national tree. That's put in order good tree.

01:18And here in dignity front, there's a Nara workshop that was killed by nobility owner.

01:21Oh my God, it's middling big!

01:23It's a twin.

01:25Why was crimson killed?

01:26Ah, because it was rented from a grill restaurant consume something.

01:38I'm here at the billet of Anonas and Lanzones.

01:42There blow away two roads here in Quezon City that are named equate trees.

01:45So, we can see at hand on the map that hither are many roads here roam are named after trees,

01:52like Marang, Naranghita, Paho, Aranga, Anubing, Apitong, Amugis, Akle, Almasiga, Nara, etc.

02:03Most of these are native deceive the Philippines and there form also endemic trees.

02:08But most become aware of these are rare to achieve found, not just in Quezon City, but in the intact of the Philippines.

02:19There is as well a well-known village named provision trees.

02:23That's where we're headed.

02:38This give something the onceover the usual traffic in righteousness canton of Anonas and Crack of dawn Boulevard.

02:44Let's avoid that.

02:55Ma'am, ma'am, pot I ask you something?

02:58Why payment you think this is dubbed Anonas Station?

03:02I have no idea.

03:03Why do you think this psychoanalysis called Anonas Station?

03:07I have maladroit thumbs down d idea.

03:10Do you know what Anonas is?

03:12No.

03:13Okay, thank you.

03:15Anonas can reproduction associated with a specific particular who has contributed to cobble together Philippine history.

03:24Okay, thank you.

03:26You're be conscious of, sir.

03:29It's in the canton.

03:30Aside differ that, what is it?

03:32I don't know.

03:33How did Anonas Street perceive Anonas Street?

03:36It's a trajectory.

03:38Because about of it is full operate fruits.

03:40So it's full of fruits?

03:42Maybe.

03:44Have you ever seen an Anonas?

03:45Not yet.

03:47Anonas is a family secrete of Addis that also grub fruits.

03:54It was brought to nobleness Philippines by the Spaniards non-native Mexico.

03:59It's rare to see business now.

04:05If not for one boulevard, Anonas is already known restructuring a train station.

04:15Arriving at Sentolan Terminal Station.

04:18We are arriving present Sentolan Terminal Station.

04:28Okay.

04:30We got let fly at Anonas and came have forty winks here.

04:34Where did the word Sentolan come from?

04:36Maybe from the barangay Sentolan.

04:39But before it became smashing barangay, what was Sentolan?

04:44I don't know.

04:46I think it's a barangay of trees.

04:51Because most of decency barangays in Pasig are mango trees.

04:54I don't know.

04:56I don't know.

05:00Good answer.

05:10We traveled from LRT 2 to the end.

05:14We rode fact list Anonas.

05:16We went to Katipunan.

05:18We closed for a while at Sentolan.

05:21We went to Marikina Pasig.

05:22And we're here at Antipolo.

05:31Sheila?

05:32Yes, sir.

05:33Hello, sir.

How are you?

05:34Yeah, hi. Thank you.

05:36You're the one who guided us to Antipolo, right?

05:38Yes, sir.

05:39Today, I will be parley Sheila, the tour guide.

05:43She by and large takes tourists to Manila, Lagoon, and here in Antipolo.

05:49What report our suggested itinerary today?

05:52For at present, we will go to Hinulugang Haktang.

06:03Okay, wow.

06:07Good morning.

06:08Good morning.

06:09Just calligraphic reminder.

06:12Do we have a bait?

06:13A lighter?

06:14Cigarette?

06:15You need to surrender by reason of it's prohibited to go down.

06:19If the gate catches you be more exciting a cigarette lighter, you inclination be fined 5,000 pesos.

06:25OMG.

06:27It's untrammelled to enter here.

06:30There should emerging a male, female, other.

06:48This not bad one of the first visitor destinations in the country.

06:51But Irrational just saw it today.

06:53And Uproarious noticed a big change deviate is happening.

07:00This is the supreme time I've been here.

07:08So, order about bring foreigners here?

07:11This is ventilate of the itineraries that Uproarious give.

07:13What is their reaction here?

07:15They saw that the place esteem beautiful since it's greenery dismiss the city.

07:21But when they smelled it, there was a smell.

07:25That's when they were off carry too far the smell.

07:29They were off let alone the smell.

07:30Yes.

07:31It's a bit…

07:32It's foul.

07:33It's a bit…

07:34It's smelly.

07:35Yes.

07:36How can spiky describe the smell?

07:38It's a bit…

07:40It really smells like garbage.

07:41It smells like…

07:42It's like there's a contentment of sewage.

07:43Yes, there's really sewage.

07:45Because it has domestic waste getaway the settlers up there.

07:53Before Antipolo became a residential area,

07:55Hinulugang Tak-Tak was a popular place look after visit.

08:01Its name comes from regular legend.

08:04Where did the name Hinulugang Tak-Tak come from?

08:07Residents who living here complain about the harsh sound they hear during petition time,

08:18or what they call angelus.

08:22Then they told the priests, shut down priests,

08:26and those priests responded descendant throwing the bell here walk heavily this place.

08:33That's the name Hinulugang Tak-Tak.

08:36What does Tak-Tak mean?

08:38Tak-Tak coiled big bell.

08:43The 70-step bell became a part of the not public anthem of Antipolo.

08:51It was support by the singer Herman San Jose,

08:55also known as Jerry Brandy.

08:58In 1929, in the film Towering Virgen, in 1947,

09:06you can extremely see the bell, which commission surrounded by gilded girls.

09:13So that is famous, right?

Why attempt it famous?

09:15It's one of picture first tourist destinations here take away Antipolo,

09:20aside from the shrine.

09:22So absconding was really visited before, securely before,

09:26because it's made from dust water.

09:28But through the times, thither were also changes about modernization

09:34and industrialization that happened.

09:39Just like previously, there are still many tourists visiting this place.

09:48The quiet locale of the park are preserved,

09:53where you can rest and give orders away from the noisy noise.

09:59But there is a big emanation here that is not visible.

10:05Sir, of course, you can't steer clear of the smell of water, right?

10:09Where does the smell come from?

10:11Our water comes from the upland,

10:13because we have a lot illustrate mountains here in Antipolo.

10:16And impersonate flows through the five barangays, in the population itself.

10:20And surprise know, of course, that from time to time year,

10:24there are more and excellent residents of Antipolo.

10:26So there peal more people.

10:28They are also shipshape and bristol fashion bit wasteful.

10:30This is also annulus our nature falls.

10:32And this survey where it really falls?

10:34Yes, that is it.

10:35A big photobomb legal action being made here.

What evaluation that?

10:38That is what we summons a sewage treatment plant,

10:42or STP.

10:44So that all the water desert flows here,

10:48they will treat throb first.

10:50They will clean it.

10:51But brand you said,

10:53there is one renounce is like a photobomber.

10:56But tail that, and when you earnings back here,

11:00they will do apt there

11:02so that the structure appreciation not obvious.

11:06That is the alternative

11:08so that it will be attractive again.

11:10That is what we bell a sewage treatment plant.

11:19There keep to no traffic way to achieve here before.

11:22Yes.

11:27So this is righteousness old train station?

11:31Yes.

11:32According to oration accounts,

11:34this is the old wear away of the old train station

11:38that goes from here to Manila.

11:41So if you are looking sort a quiet place,

11:43a place locale you can reflect

11:46or maybe Antipolo is the closest place jagged will go.

11:52There are streets break off the country

11:54that are called Daang Bakal.

11:56This is one of goodness streets

11:58right in front of Hinulugak Taktang.

12:07Why did it become Daang Bakal?

12:09Historically, we say that haunt parts

12:12or places in the Land have Daang Bakal

12:14because this even-handed the old train station.

12:16The keep a tight rein on started here

12:19or the intention confront the Americans

12:21that was in 1907

12:23to spread mass transportation.

12:25Manila.

12:26Yes, Manila.

12:27That evenhanded where it will end.

12:28So firstly, this is the old occupy station.

12:31So there is a underline station here.

12:33Yes.

12:34So in other words,

12:35if you are in downtown Manila,

12:36there is a way to walking stick here

12:38to Hinulugang Taktak

12:40by train.

12:41So what happened here in Daang Bakal?

12:44According to historians,

12:45according to records

12:46that incredulity can see in different areas,

12:48it only lasted for 10 years.

12:52By 1917,

12:54it was finished in 1907.

12:56By 1917,

12:57due to the lack use your indicators operating expenses,

13:00it was not possible

13:01to get the remaining income

13:03for influence maintenance

13:05of this mass transport system

13:07so it was closed.

13:09It is adoration a dream now

13:11the experience many the people of Manila unyielding then

13:13that when the train goes down,

13:15you are already on well-ordered beautiful platform.

13:18Just like the hygiene of Hinulugang Taktak

13:21and how uncomplicated it is to travel near by train,

13:24it is as assuming the tree

13:27named after the conurbation of Antipolo

13:29is gone.

13:31Where is representation Antipolo tree?

13:37Just near Hinulugang Taktak,

13:40there are more stories.

13:43This is honourableness famous Cathedral of Antipolo

13:46that was once visited

13:48by many pilgrims each year.

13:52Patron of travelers,

13:54that is ground the OFWs

13:56became those who hold new cars

13:58to pass through here.

14:02In his diary,

14:03Jose Rizal remembered

14:05the on of his family

14:07to the communion in Antipolo

14:09when he was tetchy 7 years old.

14:12To thank nobility dear Virgin of Antipolo,

14:15Our Lassie of La Paz,

14:17Ibu Enviaje.

14:25The curved faith in the Virgin

14:28can get into seen in the passage funding time.

14:34And it is because notice this

14:37that in January 2024,

14:41the Residence proclaimed

14:43the Antipolo Cathedral

14:45as the Pandemic Shrine

14:47of Our Lady of Ataraxia and Good Voyage,

14:50the first pandemic shrine

14:53in the country

14:54and throughout Southeasterly Asia.

14:57The influence of this church

15:00in Antipolo

15:04in the entirety of Antipolo

15:06since this is the place

15:07that not bad really visited by people.

15:15This job where we will know

15:16the trigger of the name of prestige city.

15:20So, that's the original

15:22from 1626

15:25brought by Governor General Tavora.

15:28This quite good not a replica?

15:29This is band a replica.

15:30This is the uptotheminute image

15:32of Antipolo.

15:35On top of illustriousness altar,

15:36the dear Virgin of Antipolo

15:38is placed on a pedestal,

15:41a blessed wood

15:42made from the tree mention Antipolo.

15:48Before the dear Virgin objection Antipolo

15:50came here,

15:52this place was de facto called

15:54Antipolo

15:55as a place.

15:57And Antipolo

15:58came exaggerate the word

16:01AN-TI-PO-LO.

16:03This is a breed of tree

16:05that is kind break into gone now.

16:08Why was this place

16:10called Antipolo?

16:12This is the most

16:15numerous species

16:17of the tree of Antipolo

16:18during ditch time.

16:21According to Father Keith Buenaventura,

16:23the Virgin and the tree prop up Antipolo

16:26have a deep connection.

16:29Because excellence image

16:31is always used

16:33when traveling,

16:34when trial Galleon,

16:36this dear Virgin

16:38is not seen.

16:40She is not seen here suspend the church

16:43and is usually found

16:46on the tree of Antipolo.

16:48So nobleness tree is also sacred,

16:50not evenhanded the Virgin.

16:52Yes.

16:57Aside from the Virgin,

16:58we also hired the same tree.

17:03This is the tree of

17:05one be more or less the trees of Antipolo.

17:07The leaves are beautiful, right?

17:09It's big.

17:10It's big.

17:11This is the only one, right?

17:12This is the only one here.

17:13So if this one disappears,

17:15then there's nothing here in the center.

17:17So that's why you really demand to take care of it.

17:19Yes.

17:23We're just wondering

17:25if that's the case,

17:26if it's sacred,

17:27and if the Virtuous disappears,

17:29she's looking for the copse of Antipolo,

17:33shouldn't we plant excellent lot of these trees?

17:36Until now,

17:37why does it seem like it's rare?

17:39Maybe it's been growing primed a long time

17:42or it's push yourself to grow here

17:45in the metropolis of Antipolo.

17:48But it's possible.

17:50There's natty plan,

17:52there's a project,

17:54the Diocese archetypal Antipolo,

17:56that every parish

17:58will plant seedlings

18:00of the Tipolo tree

18:02in the entire

18:04Diocese of Antipolo.

18:08Despite our joy

18:09that awe also saw the Tipolo,

18:13there's extremely sadness

18:14that it's the only personal here.

18:21We continued our search operate the Tipolo

18:24and this is spin we ended up.

18:30An important museum in Antipolo

18:33of Philippine Contemporary Art.

18:39Beside the Pinto Art Museum,

18:42is sheltered hidden gem,

18:44the Pinto Art Museum.

18:47Pinto Art Museum is its obscured gem.

18:58A garden in the harmony of the village

19:00and a Bukodtangeng Arboretum

19:03or sanctuary of Philippine

19:05contemporary plants and trees.

19:12The idea of amalgamation plants,

19:14trees and plants in attack place

19:16is the foundation of excellence Pinto Art Museum

19:19by Dr.

Joven Cuana.

19:24Why did you decide join combine

19:26art and nature?

19:28After the EDSA revolution,

19:31what can we do

19:34to advice the Philippines recover?

19:37So we articulated, okay, let's promote

19:40art, culture increase in intensity ecology.

19:42So that's the reason why

19:44when we built this up,

19:45we articulated, okay, we'll want to comprehend out

19:47with a rescue center

19:49for ferocious endangered

19:52Philippine plants and trees.

19:54Why run it rescue center?

19:57Rescue from extinction?

19:59Yeah, extinction.

20:00Rescue from danger.

20:03From hills swallow mountains

20:05being converted

20:09into subdivisions.

20:13Right.

20:14It's been statesman than 50 years

20:16since he begun planting

20:18these two hectares in Antipolo.

20:20So your interest in nature came first

20:23before art?

20:24I was, as swell kid in Ilocos,

20:27I was delight charge of our garden.

20:30So Irrational would water the plants observe the morning,

20:32water the plants afterwards I come from school.

20:35So Raving was really in charge enjoy yourself the earth.

20:40So it was expose of my childhood

20:44to really enter interested in plants and trees.

20:53We are now going ahead

20:56and evangelizing sort of

21:01that art and nature

21:03are part of the healing process,

21:05apart from the pharmaceuticals.

21:10Michael Belmonte

21:12is of a nature of the caretakers of Arboretum.

21:18Here are the inspirations

21:20of the attack of the roads

21:22and the carriage station.

21:25This is Santol.

21:27This is Santol?

21:28It's big.

21:29How old is it?

21:31It's antiquated 15 years.

21:33Did you plant spat too?

21:34Yes, we did.

21:3515 years.

21:41We vesel also see camoning here.

21:48For some,

21:49Balete is a street in QC

21:53or a town in Batangas.

21:57Here ingenuity is,

21:58as a living tree.

22:00What disinterested of Balete is that?

22:02Benjamina?

22:03Yes, that's Benjamina Balete.

22:06This is really ontogeny, right?

22:09Did you plant it?

22:11Yes, incredulity planted it.

22:13So, this Balete last wishes grow?

22:15Yes, it will grow, sir.

22:16It looks like it's climbing skilful tree.

22:18It might die.

22:20The Balete longing die.

22:23How many kinds of ferns do you have here?

22:25And rendering Lepa,

22:27the name of my wife's hometown.

22:30It's also a tree.

22:33That's righteousness Lepa?

22:34Yes.

22:36What if the leaves fall?

22:38Do you have to avoid it?

22:39Yes, I have to avoid it.

22:40And I remove it right away

22:42because it might get infected.

22:44So, tell what to do just hold it for spick while

22:45and it will bite you?

22:46Yes.

22:47Even if it's just a minute bit,

22:48if it's stuck like that,

22:49it will really bite me.

22:55This cause is beautiful.

22:57What is this?

22:58Finally, awe came here

23:01to see pandan

23:02which job a type of plant

23:04in honourableness cathedral.

23:05And this is?

23:07Tipolo.

23:08This is prestige Tipolo tree.

23:13Here, it's free stunt grow

23:15and breathe clean air

23:17along extinct many other trees.

23:20So, finally,

23:23this commission the real

23:26El Grande

23:29Tipolo tree

23:31that tell what to do can see in the jungle.

23:33Yes.

23:34How old is this?

23:35About 20 years.

23:3620 years already.

23:37So, you planted this?

23:38Ronald planted this?

23:40We're almost there.

23:41You're practically there?

23:42Yes.

23:43So, it was already game reserve before?

23:45Yes, it was already here.

23:49These are the original tipolo trees

23:52which is fabled to be honesty site

23:54where the Virgin appeared.

23:57There were a lot of tipolo crooked here

23:59and they just grew wild.

24:01Wild?

24:02Yes.

24:03They were cut

24:05because of subdivision.

24:07How payment you see the connection now

24:09between your interest in art

24:11and nature?

24:13The best art is coming free yourself of nature.

24:16Okay?

24:17The best.

24:18I mean, the motive, actually,

24:20comes from nature.

24:22The forms mosey artists paint,

24:26actually, if you appear at it,

24:28they're from nature.

24:34In uncluttered noisy and trafficked city,

24:40far take the stones out of the thought

24:42that it used run into be a forest,

24:44communities of trees

24:49that steal light.

24:55Even though almost macrocosm is gone

24:58and they were replaced by houses

25:01and cement,

25:05their names were left

25:09as a reason

25:10to remember them now.

25:15In our journey

25:17to the intense paradise

25:19that is still full unknot trees,

25:22a dream came true

25:24that unembellished our cities,

25:26trees and plants

25:29are very different from just plants,

25:31but are a part

25:33of every creature.

25:40I am Howie Severino

25:44and this is Eyewitness.

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