Callao Cave

I was in Isabela that time with my Kuya Ferdie and his family for a short vacation. We spent 3 days there in the house of my Kuya's wife. Since it was really boring to spend vacation in the province, they've decided to go to this cave called Callao Cave, which is located in Tuguegarao. Two-hour travel time from Cauayan Isabela.

Actually, you wouldn't really get irritated with the quite a long travel going there since there's no heavy traffic like what I'm used to in the city. So we got to the Callao Eco-Tourism Zone by 2pm.

Callao Cave is situated on top of a highland and is consisted of 7 chambers. You have to climb 184 steps to be able to go up to the entrance of the cave..

Took a souvenir photo with this signage of the place

Climbing the 184 steps going up.. My Ate Shirley with siobe in front. I and Migs and the tour guide in green

The entrance of the cave
L-R: Kuya Sherwin, Kuya Ferdie, Siobe, I, Ate Shirley and Migs

Solo photo in the cave's entrance, which is actually the first chamber of the cave

As we go on walking inside the cave, just beside the first chamber is the 2nd chamber with a small chapel in it..

The small man-made chapel created by the people there. Actually our tour guide told us that a British man and a local woman from the place got married here. Yeah, you heard it right, a wedding inside the cave and the reception also took place here. Haha!

A shot of the top of the chapel. Notice the figures near the plant( left). They call it the Mother and Child figure of a rock.

As we go along the cave, we've seen a lot of different rock and limestone formations.. To take note, they are not man-made but created by nature itself.. Amazing right?

The 'Snake Kissing the Crocodile' Formation

'The 3 Kings' You'll see it when you focus looking at the bottom right portion of the photo. One king is riding on a camel and the other two are standing..

They call this the 'Merlion'. Filipino version of the famous Merlion statue in Singapore. Haha

'Lion kissing the Turtle' Notice that the house of the turtle is colored green so I asked the tour guide if it was painted green or just natural and he said it's natural. yeah?

'The Angel' No doubt right? Haha

'The Launching Rocket'

Another 'Lion'

Lastly,

A Funny Worm as I call it. Haha! or a Snake with a funny face. :D

Unfortunately, we weren't able to go until the 6th and 7th chamber of the cave because the way going down the 6th chamber is quite steep and rough. The tour-guide also told us that the 7th chamber was destroyed by a high-magnitude earthquake not so long ago :(

And so, from the cave, we went down.. took a rest and went on a boat-ride around the river near the cave.. It was cool! Clean emerald green water of the river. The boat also passed-by the area where there's falling water from the top of the highland..

I really like this shot!