Lights Through & Between the Gaps

Below is a signage seen just before going deeper into the mouth of Sumaguing Cave in Sagada, Mt. Province. And because we are good tourists, well-behaved too and so we heed the advice and took nothing but pictures, left none but footprints and killed nothing but time during our visit to the place last month. And that's the reason why today, I have quite a lot of photos to share, specifically of the lights captured between the gaps on rock formations and other stuff.

But before that, let's go backwards a little bit to see how the cave's opening looks like from the distance.

And a lot farther back to take a look at the cave's location. This is the mountain and where the arrow is pointing at is the cave opening.

Okay, let's now go back inside (well, not really inside, just at the opening or what I'd refer here as the cave's mouth) just beyond that signage we read earlier. This is the stairway where we descended. The shot was taken while looking back up from where we came from.

And these are below it. The entry for one to start spelunking inside the cave is towards the right. The husband went to the left and took a bit of an adventure and explored the space by himself. And it was where most of the photos were captured.

Screenshot via Pinmapple.

Screenshot via Pinmapple.

I mentioned previously that there was no available caveman guide at that time so we were not confident to enter the cave by ourselves. The FarmBoy however didn't want to let that chance pass him by without taking a look around, at least just along that opening.

You can see from this photo that there's natural light coming through from that side of the cave and that's why the husband was confident and went in.

Photographed while I was behind the railings of the stairway.

I went down through the staircase thinking to join the husband but upon reaching the foot of it, I was reminded of the earthquakes that we have been experiencing previously and I felt scared so after taking some moments there and capturing some photos, I climbed back up.

The husband went on alone on his quest and took these shots whilst he was inside that opening. My nephews and nieces by the stairway look so tiny relative to the sizes of the rocks below them.

But yes, there's much to see down there - rock formations in the form of columns, stalagmites, stalactites and more. It's just astonishing how nature created such a wondrous beauty under that mountain and between centuries, extreme weather conditions and what have you, they are still there, seemingly untouched, although they may have been disturbed by the presence of visiting tourists like us.

Anyhow, I decided to categorize and share the photos in separate posts so as not to dump them all in one go. And the group of shots in this post is mostly of the natural lights seen down there, between and above the rocks.

That's all for today and there will be more at another time. I've also written previously of some rock formations seen in that same cave.

Happy Friday everyone!

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