KAMALASAG FALLS

About 100 ft. high; 7 kms.and a 3-hour walk from the national road. It is a stress reliever for you to relax...
It is  tiring to walked  for 3 hours, but when you hear the flow of the water from the falls is so relaxing.When you fell the fresh air, the cold and clean water makes you forget all the thing that bothered you..
Kamalasag falls is so amazing place for outing with friends and family.
IT'S MORE FUN IN KAMALASAG FALLS!!!!

Igpasungaw Falls

 Igpasungaw Falls are considered as one of the major natural attraction in Sebaste.
Located in the Province of Antique. Whether from Caticlan or Kalibo, you can ride a bus leading to San Jose de Buenavista and drop in the town proper of Sebaste, the municipality where the Igpasungaw Falls is situated.

You will take a 15-minute tricycle or motorcycle ride from the highway up to the location where trekking will start. Hiking will take 40 minutes to 1 hour before reaching the waterfalls. Fifty (50) Philippine Peso is being paid as the Environmental Fee per head. Moreover, Tour-guide fee is about 200 Pesos.

The place is worth a visit for nature lovers and thrill seekers. Igpasungaw Falls has a unique features.

The Patuyaw Festival

The patuyaw, a fresh water shrimp which thrives abundantly in the streams, river, brooks and creeks in the Municipality  and is a good source of nutrition and living of the people, symbolizes the abundance of the nature which sustains life for the Sebastehanon and the precarious relationship between the people nad the environment.

Patuyaw specially weaves a strand on the culture and the way of life of the Sebastehanon who have been dependent on the bounty of the water.

The Parish of Saint Blaise

The parish of St. Blaise was founded on August 25, 1897 with Rev. Fr. Domingo Carrera from the order of St.  Augustine as its first parish priest. The parish got its name from the place where its patron saint St. blaise came from, who was later made a bishop of this town in Armenia.

Formerly, Sebaste was called Ipayo, named after the river that flows through it. Ipayo was believed to be a municipality during the Spanish time in 1800. Pestilence and calamities wrought misfortunes upon the community that later, the heavy toll forced Sebaste to be annexed to Pandan. Thereafter, what once the seat of the municipality became“ Arabal Of Sebaste.

The image of St. Blaise was a gift of Dona Matilde, wife of the Duke of Seville, to his son, Father Mariano Zapata, then the parish priest of Pandan who transferred his residence in Sebaste. He took along with him the image of St. Blaise and installed as patron of Sebaste. He thought that the place was cursed, so the statue of St. Blaise was made the patron saint of Ipayo when his miracle was claimed were manifested not only in preventing calamities but also in healing the sick. The news of his miracles spread throughout Panay, Negros, Mindanao, and other places.