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My ride for today.

Somewhere in Quezon Eco-Tourism Road.

It is always like this all year round.

In Lucban Quezon, Philippines.

Short coffee ride passing this newly constructed hanging bridge.

Newly constructed hanging bridge, located at Pili Sariaya Quezon, Philippines.

I stopped cycling for a minute for this beautiful view.

The Philippines Jade Vine has some of the most extraordinary flowers of any plant. Enormous, meter-long spikes of brilliant turquoise blooms hang from the scrambling stems usually in April or May. In the wild these attract tropical bats which carry pollen from one plant to the next.

One of many water falls in Atimonan Quezon, Philippines

One of my favorite spot in my cycling route

Cananga odorata, known as the cananga tree, is a tropical tree that is native to India, through parts of Indochina, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia, to Queensland, Australia. It is valued for the perfume extracted from its flowers, called ylang-ylang /ˈiːlæŋ ˈiːlæŋ/ EE-lang-EE-lang (a name also sometimes used for the tree itself), which is an essential oil used in aromatherapy. The tree is also called the fragrant cananga, Macassar-oil plant, or perfume tree. Its traditional Polynesian names include Mataʻoi (Cook Islands), Mohokoi (Tonga), Mosoʻoi (Samoa), Motoʻoi (Hawaii), and Mokosoi, Mokasoi or Mokohoi (Fiji). The ylang-ylang vine (Artabotrys odoratissimus) and climbing ylang-ylang (Artabotrys hexapetalus) are woody, evergreen climbing plants in the same family. Artabotrys odoratissimus is also a source of perfume.

It is grown in South East Asia, India, Bangladesh and the Philippines. It is also widely cultivated as an ornamental plant in tropical and subtropical areas. The leaves of the banabá and other parts are used widely in the Philippines, Taiwan, and Japan as a tea preparation. Banabá herb is one of the 69 herbal plants promoted by the Philippine Department of Health (DOH). In Vietnam the plant's young leaves are consumed as vegetables, and its old leaves and mature fruit are used in traditional medicine for reducing glucose in blood.

Dragonflies and damselflies, like cockroaches, are two of the oldest insect groups. During prehistoric times, they were as big as hawks. You can find Odonate fossils from Kansas to Siberia. These fascinating creatures had wingspans of almost 30 inches and were the largest insects to ever live. Currently, there are estimated to be more than 4,700 species of Odonata worldwide and Zygoptera accounts for one-third of them. Zygoptera is native to all regions of the world, except Antarctica.

Ilayang Talim Lucena City

Somewhere in the countryside in Tayabas City.

Path in the middle of rice paddies.

Somewhere in Sariaya Quezon