Cuarto-Cuarto Cave

Useful Information

Location:	Barangay Biak-na-Bato and Barangay Sibul, San Miguel; Barangay Talbak and Barangay Kalawakan, Doña Remedios Trinidad, San Miguel, Philippines, 3011. From Angeles City E1 southeast to Malolos City, turn left on AH 26 north, at Santa Rita turn right on Magsaysay Road to the end. (15.1069062, 121.0718184)
Open:	All year daily 8-17. [2025]
Fee:	Park: Adults PHP 100, Children (0-7) PHP 40, Students PHP 40, Seniors PHP 40. Foreigners PHP 100. Guide PHP 150. [2025]
Classification:	Karst Cave
Light:	bring torch
Dimension:
Guided tours:	cave trekking
Photography:	allowed
Accessibility:	no
Bibliography:
Address:	Biak na Bato National Park, Magsaysay Road, Biak na Bato, Doña Remedios Trinidad, Bulacan, Central Luzon, Tel: +63-995-491-5417. E-mail:
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History

Description

A cave with many rooms or cuartos, it is accessed by crawling through a low entrance with a downward slope about seven meters long. Swifts and swallows nest in the nooks and crevices of this cave. These birds’ nests are harvested and used as the main ingredient on the popular Chinese bird’s nest soup.

Cuarto-Cuarto Cave is described by the identical text we cited above on dozens of webpages, they seem to be copied from an ominous source. Even people who say they have visited the cave themselves do not write a single word of their own. We have no idea why there is neither a stand-alone word nor a picture on dozens of pages. In the age of smartphone cameras, there should be hundreds of strange snapshots. Our best guess is that this cave actually doesn’t exist and that these visitors couldn’t find it and feared that people would say they were too stupid to find the cave. Out of cowardice, they keep the rumour alive that this cave exists.

So this is our recommendation: skip this cave, do not spend valuable time of your holidays for the futile search for a cave which does not exist!