As a celebration of Mother's Day 2013, I decided to take my family and some relative to the Ambongdolan caves in Tublay, Benguet. The place was just 2 hours away from Baguio City.
When we got there, we registered then went to the Paterno cave entrance where we had a brief orientation conducted by our tour guides.
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| Listening to the orientation |
After the orientation, we went down a steep stair where we saw the entrance to the cave. Everyone was laughing when they saw the entrance since it was so small that we had to crawl to get inside the cave. Little did we know that there was a smaller hole just after we enter this opening.
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| Crawling from the entrance of the cave |
When we got to the cave itself, we were greeted by some very nice formations:
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| Formations inside Paterno Cave |
We had to wait for our turn to go down since the stairs are only made of wood and could only hold one person at a time:
Then, after the wooden stairs, we had to walk through a long metal stairs:
Some of the formations we passed by:
We thought that the entrance we passed through was already the entrance to the cave. We were wrong. It was just a way to get to the cave's main entrance. When we got in Paterno cave, we were immediately amazed at the wonderful formations:
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| Happy relatives inside Paterno Cave |
More formations:
When it was time to go back, we were told that we had to use the same route we took going inside the cave. We were a bit worried since the path was slippery. But thankfully we made it.
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| Going down |
The most exciting part of this adventure was passing through the two openings. Here a picture of the second opening.
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| Passing through the narrow opening |
For those interested to visit the Paterno Cave or any of the Ambongdolan Caves, you may contact the guides at 0918 495 4531. Hope more Filipinos, especially Baguio residents, visit these caves. It's so much fun!
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