Corregidor – One of the Best Places for Team Building (Philippines)

Team building activities are done by organizations to specialize in bringing out the best in a team to ensure self development, motivation, improve communication, leadership skills, and the ability to work as a team to solve problem. Being an employee of a corporate organization, I am guilty that this is one of my most awaited events — all-expense-paid.

Team building in Corregidor (Corregidor Adventour Challenge).
Photo courtesy of Aleah of Solitary Wanderer

Last April, I was lucky to be one of the participants to join the Corregidor Adventour Challenge. Surprisingly, aside from historical tour, Corregidor Island also offer this fun and exciting adventure challenge.

What’s with Corregidor? Anung meron sa Corregidor? I have heard this several times whenever I ask someone to join me explore Corregidor. Corregidor played an important role during World War II. It is the Philippine’s first line of defense against Japanese forces and they got bored. So, I added words like ruined barracks, hospitals, tunnels, forest, beach, ghost stories, kamikaze, when telling about Corregidor. I was like, Come on, aren’t you a fan of historical places?

Moving forward, we met up at Sun Cruises port, where the abandoned Jumbo Kingdom Restaurant is located. I finally met these young bloggers from Pinoy Travel Bloggers (PTB) and while waiting for others, I had the chance to know each one of them. I know this is going to be fun as we’re mixture of students, slackers, and employees. One of us ditched work only to experience this fun and exciting challenge!

We then arrived in Corregidor via Sun Cruises ferry. The trip from Manila to Corregidor is approximately 1 to 1.5 hr. The first thing I noticed was that, most of the tourist were foreigners in their 50s to 60s.

We geared ourselves up for the hot sunny day and started picture taking of the beautiful island of Corregidor. We then ride Sun Cruises special bus and toured the island. Ruined infrastructures are fascinating as we go along to the adventour site. We stopped at the Battery Way to change clothes in preparation for the challenge.

We also saw a huge beautiful tree which gave a refreshing mood. Continue reading »