Karst cave.
| Location: | Southern Sagada, on the Suyo Road. Get a guide at the Sagada Municipal Building. (17° 03.920N 120° 54.144E) |
| Open: | All year daily. |
| Fee: | Guide PHP 250, Gas Lamp PHP 50. [2002] |
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Karst cave.
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| Light: | none |
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| Guided tours: | D=6h |
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| Last update: | $Date: 2007/11/19 21:32:37 $ |
Sumaging is a cave of impressive size, which may be visited on organized spelunking tours. Get a guide at the Sagada Municipal Building, nobody is allowed to go to the cave without a guide and without registration.
There are numerous fine formations like King's Curtain, Rice Granary, or Cauliflower. A huge hall is called the Dancing Hall. But there is also a crawl called the Tunnel. The tour includes some water passages, which is rather harmless as the temperature in Philippinan caves is rather high.
During pre-Christian times this caves ware used to bury people. They were encased in a coffin carved in one piece out of enormous pine tree trunks. To fit in they were arranged in the fetal position. Those coffins can be visited in the entrance hall, behind the huge portal of Sagada Burial Cave. Although the different name suggests it to be another cave, its just another opening of the same cave. It is possible to make a through trip.
The cave served as hiding place of Filipino soldiers and Guerillas during World War II.
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