The Perfect Last Day in Tacloban Part II

July 4th, 2015

   Once we arrived at the caves we carefully stepped off the boats with the help of the guards and headed up to prepare for our cave tour.  We were pleasantly greeted by guitar music and the natural beauty of our surroundings!

 These guitarists were wonderful, the music really created a nice ambiance while we ate lunch and we even danced to the music!


The hut below was where we put our things and ate lunch, quite pretty and slightly rustic at the same time.

We all got helmets from the people there and set off on our adventure through the cave.

Of course I chose the orange helmet ;)

We toured through the right and left chambers of the cave, saw bats, and some interesting stalactites (hangs from the ceiling) and stalagmites (mineral deposits that grow up).  The neat thing about this cave is that there are no lights that are already planted in the cave, we used two flashlights to see everything, it was really neat.   
The sparkly white is calcium carbonate and we were not allowed to touch it because the oil on our skin will cause it to turn brown, it is very pretty and eye catching though.  We also saw tiny bats sleeping at the top of the cave.
There were some really neat formations and when you use your imagination you can see how they resemble different things.

The figure to the left looks like a giant jelly fish!   See the mini-bats below.  Overall, the cave tour was pretty neat, and it wasn't as cold as I thought it would be in there.  I have many more pictures from inside the cave you can see on my facebook page :)