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Balanghai Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 12/3/2022
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


Cache is located in front of the sculpture, Balanghai.

Balanghai was the first prize-winning entry in the first competition held in 1996. Leonardo drew inspiration from our pre-colonial history: the boat known as balanghai used by the Malays who were among the early settlers in the Philippines and barangay, the local name for the communities formed by these settlers. Similarly, the artist also reflected then on the notion of the birth of a new community, a newly established baranggay that is now Bonifacio Global City.

Balanghai is a stylized vinta or Moro boat with colorful and curvilinear sails representing the sarimanok and okir elements from Mindanao. Designed as a kinetic sculpture, each sail responds individually to different wind shifts but reacts communally in an animated fashion. With its translucent sails, Balanghai represents the “vitality and dynamism of Filipinos, our animated and cheerful nature”. It was completed in 2001 and was moved to its present site in 2002.

The area is highly muggled. Please use extreme stealth, take your time and effort not to be discovered, as there are always people around. 

BTW the logbook is inside a container, bring your own pen! Happy caching! –UwU

*Please return the geocache where you find it.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Svaq gur sebag bs gur Onynatunv. Svaq gur rknpg fcbg va gur cubgb

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)