Tagged: Caves
Cudugnon Cave El Nido Palawan
Codugnon Cave El Nido
The boatmen of El Nido will run you out to Cudugnon Cave as part of “Tour B”. They make a whole day of it and you can snorkel and beach comb on several other islands.
Codugnon Cave
Cudugnon? Codognun?
You see it spelled several ways on the maps and tourist brochures.
El Nido cave
Palawan
We saw 11 [...]
Ugong Rock Caving Palawan
Ugong Rock – Caving in Palawan
Ugong Rock is a limestone pedestal jutting up from the rice fields on the way to Sabang. I forgot to take a picture of Ugong itself but here is a shot from the top of Ugong at some of the other rocks sticking up in the surrounding rice fields.
The cave [...]
Underground River Sabang Palawan
St Paul Cave
Underground River Sabang Palawan
The underground river in Sabang is a huge tourist attraction for good reason. It’s easy to get to, relatively inexpensive, and it really is spectacular!
The cave itself is said to be around 21 kilometers long, but the underground river only goes back around 8 kilometers. Spelunkers could spend several days [...]
Calbiga Langun Cave
Calbiga Langun Cave – Spelunking
Samar Philippines
The sight of thousands of bats swarming out of the cave on their way to work is really inspiring.
The enormous pile of bat guano that you must wade through is not.
My neighbor, Joni Bonifacio, invited me to join a group that was planning to explore the Calbig cave for [...]
Rare Blind Fish of Calbiga
Blind fish of Calbiga Cave Samar
caecogobius cryptophthalmus
I was so happy to get this photo of the rare blind fish of the Calbiga cave system in Samar last weekend.
The picture is obviously not professional but I was there and I took it, and was happy to get it even if it is a little [...]
Philippine Python Guimit Island
Python Cave
Guimit Island is legendary for it’s Philippine pythons and a strategic cave that the Japanese used as a hideout in WW2.
A local cave expert Joni Bonifacio invited me along for the day to do a little research.
We left from the waterfront in a small fishing boat and had a fairly successful day checking out [...]
Jiabong Extreme Caving
Jiabong Cave – Samar
Joni Bonifacio of Trexplore led a group of 11 through part of the Jiabong cave system this past weekend. (June 13-15 2008) pic by Joni
We camped near one of the entrances to the Lobo cave system and spent 3 days swimming the underground rivers and crawling through the mud.
One python was seen [...]
Calbiga Cave Samar
Calbiga Cave – Samar – Philippines
The Calbiga Cave system in southern Samar is not well know outside of the spelunking community due to its relatively light exposure in the tourist guide books.
Samar is off the beaten track so a little more effort is needed to make a trip here. It also requires a guide with [...]
Naponod Cave Samar
Naponod Cave Samar
There are 4 caves in the Jailbong Cave system near Catbologan, Samar in the Philippines. These are relatively untouched with 2 of them have just been explored for the first time in 2006.
I have become friends with Joni Bonifacio, a local cave enthusiast that assisted the Italian spelunking teams that first came [...]
Kamanaog Cave Samar
Kamanaog Cave – Samar – Philippines
There is a steady breeze inside this cave generated by the wings of thousands and thousands of bats.
A beautiful Philippine cobra rests near the entrance.
This one was very docile and did not mind posing for a few pictures but might become annoyed if you started squeezing it with a snake [...]
Climbing Mount Apo
General Santos
Growing Orchids
Judy's Resto Bar
Logging with Motorcycles
Mount Mayon
Balabac Island
Biri Island
Calbiga Cave
Capul Island
Mangrove Swamp Palawan
Mikes's Resort
Wood Boat to Manila Philippines