Tagged: Caves
Trexplore
Trexplore Trexplore is a first rate tourist based guide service located in Catbologan, Samar. Joni Bonifcio formed the company in 2000 after spending years caving and mountain biking in the Philippines as a hobby. Joni studied medicine at the Cebu Doctors College but decided to follow his heart and develop the fledgling tourist business in [...]
Panaghoyan Cave Samar
Panaghoyan Cave – Samar There is a small opening between some banana plants on the hillside where you can slip in feet first trying not to dislodge loose rocks. You will drop into the Panaghoyan Cave, a new discovery, that Joni found in 2006. Almost immediately you float down an underground river, thankful that you [...]
Lobo Cave Samar
Lobo Cave Samar has the largest karst formations in the Philippines. Many of these limestone caves are just now being explored by spelunkers and cavers from the Philippines. A local explorer, Joni Bonifacio, has the expertise and equipment to guide visitors through these majestic caves. Samar doesn’t get the tourists that the other islands do [...]
Sumaging Cave Sagada
Sagada – Sumaging Cave Visitors to Sumaging Cave in Sagada wade through chest deep water to get to a large chamber surrounded by limestone formations. Wading through the cold underground river in the Sumaging Cave in Sagada is really a neat experience. It is a good idea to bring along a pair of shorts or [...]
Hanging Coffins of Sagada
Ancestors The hanging coffins in Sagada are not actively pushed as a tourist oddity by some of the guides because they feel that their ancestors deserve more respect than that. Hanging Coffins in the caves of Sagada There are dead buried in the inaccessible cliffs around Sagada. I am told they are placed there by [...]
Sagada caves
Sagada caves There is a connecting passageway between Lumiang and Sumaging Caves in Sagada. This is a sweet 3 hour hike if you go slow and enjoy the beauty down there. If you enter the Sumaging cave and make a detour through some winding passages you will be able to exit the Lumiang cave. We [...]
Big Water Iralfai
Iralfai It is suspected that some of the earliest human inhabitants lived in this area. Anthropologists have found some unusual remains on the nearby island of Flores that indicate a very early form of man lived there. Traditional village Iralfai Village means “Big Water” in Fataluku. This place is along the road to Tutuala. There [...]
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