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| Manung Leviz and Manang Michelle |
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| Going down to Crystal Cave Entrance |
After all the celebration and friends and
family get together, I was insisting to my cousin and her family to visit
Sagada to relax. One rainy afternoon, we decided to take off. We managed to
catch the last trip going to Sagada and we arrived earlier than we expected
even if it was raining. We went to our lodge and rested for the night. I had a
hard time sleeping because I am so excited for tomorrow’s activity, Crystal
Cave. During my first visit in Sagada and heard about Crystal Cave, I promised
myself that I will be back for that and here I am.
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| Our guides preparing! |
This is it!! The day that I’ve
been waiting for, the day I been longing to see how hard and magnificent
Crystal Cave is. I’m with my cousin and her husband and the two great guides of
SAGGAS. At our way to the entrance, it was so muddy, slippery because it just
rained. We even saw an eroded land. I’m nervous for my cousin because it was
her first time to enter a cave. This was her first adventure and she made it!! I am so Proud of her!!! At last, we arrived at the entrance. Our guide prepared rope and petromax for light.
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| Manang Michelle at the entrance! |
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| The Crystal Cave Entrance |
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| Going down Crystal Cave |
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| Crystal Cave Entrance |
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| Trying to fit in the cave hole |
Unlike the cave entrance I’ve tried and saw, this was the hardest. It was so
steep and stones were covered with mud that makes it so slippery. We even
should fit in the small cave holes and our guides told us that the first cave hole
was the biggest and easiest to enter. Then we saw stalactites, it was really like crystal, so pure,
sparkling white crystal hanging in the cave. Our guide told us to be quiet so
that the stalactites will not fall because with loud noise it might fall, so we
tried our best to be quiet.
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| Crystal-like Stalactite |
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| Crystal-like Stalactite |
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| Going down to see more |
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| Crystal-like Stalactite |
Then we continued our trek going
down, we saw more amazing and magnificent crystal-like stalactite. We went up and down and saw small cave
hole. For us to fit in, we should lie down and push ourselves towards the end. I
wonder how we manage to fit in that cave hole but we made it. Then we should
leave our slippers and we walked in the beautiful stone formation. In this part of
the cave, my camera gave up and sadly, we were still in the first parts of the
cave. It went out of battery, it was so disappointing and I regret that I didn’t charged my camera
because when I checked it, it was full and I am sure that it will last but it
didn’t. I’m still lucky because we still have a waterproof camera but with no
flash, so as innovative as we are, we used the petromax as a flash.
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| crystal-like stalactite |
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| more on Crystal Cave |
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| more on Crystal Cave |
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| last photo I captured with my camera |
On our way out, we saw different
stone formations, waterfall-like and so many more. We even passed knee level muddy
hallway, as if we were on a mud spa house. It was gross but we don’t have any
choice. We rappelled, climbed and tried our very best to fit on small cave
hole. And then at last, we made it to Sumaguing Cave. We exited in the Pig pen
stone formation and literally, we were like pigs, so muddy. We just washed
ourselves in Sumaguing Cave. It took us almost 3-4hrs to finished spelunking. We
survived!! Thank you again to our guide, who’s always been there to be our foot
stool, human ladder, pulled us up and helped us to survive and safely got out
of the cave.
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| John, President of SAGGAS, our Guide |
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| Lester, Our Guide |
After a day, we noticed that we
had so many bruised, scratched and our whole body hurt like hell, even for how
many days now. But we don’t regret it, it was worth it!
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| my foot |
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| my hand |
This trip opened my eyes to other
views of Sagada. A lot happened during our stay there, met a lot of
people, knew more about this place. My last day was not
that great and I can even say that it was my worst and crazy last day but I don’t
regret it. At least, I can say that I enjoyed Sagada so much that I can't explain!!
Thank you guys for
making it so memorable!!
-Louie Mae Vardeleon
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