Experiencing Sumaguing Cave (Sagada) (Team Promising goes to Sumaguing Cave)

Welcome to Sumaguing Cave

Once you visited Sagada, you have to experience caving or what they call “spelunking.”

Sumaguing Cave adventure is one of the most challenging challenges in Sagada because it is not just about being adventurous and strength, it is also about being brave and willingness to go through all the challenges in order complete it.

 

at Sumaguing Cave's entrance

For our brief stint in Sagada, we decided to do the Sumaguing Cave adventure alone. For braver souls and if you have plenty of time in Sagada, you can do the cave connection that involved crossing three caves.

While waiting for the debriefing

Prior to entering Sumaguing Cave, our guide gave us a brief introduction of what we will see and experience inside the cave. The guides also gave us some do’s and don’ts to avoid any accident.

Guide Fee

For cave adventure, the fee is P600 per guide for every three people. This is pretty reasonable because they will carry you if they have to, guide you as needed and will carry a light for you.

Our guide- back view!

How to go to Sumaguing Cave

Entrance to Suamguing Cave is around 20-30 minutes’ walk from the town proper. Tour guides might offer you a ride for additional fee to take you there but I would suggest to just walk it off. If you will walk, you’ll get to enjoy the view and the cold weather of Sagada.

Ang tamang daan!

What to prepare

A soft slipper will do. Clothes to change with after caving. 

What to expect

Water. Darkness. Bats. Awesome stalactite formations and other rock formations. 

What to do once you get there

Use your imagination!

Luckily, we had fun tour guides with us during our Sumaguing Cave adventure and with their playful imaginations, they told us a lot of stories about the stalactite and stalagmite formations within the cave.

The famous 'Queen'

The 'Queen and her kids'

The curtains hiding 'the King'

The kids on the other side of the curtain

There are a lot of things that you can imagine inside Sumaguing Cave. They even have a turtle, an elephant, a lion and a tiger and a princess. It all depends on you and how your imagination will work.

Considering what we have to go through such as this:

You have to do this!

And be here like this!

Plus pose like a pro:

We survive spelunking @ Sumaguing Cave

To view our Echo Valley experience, click here.

To view our Mount Ampacao experience, click here.