Hinagdanan Cave is a limestone cave where you descend down a flight of stairs into a very humid, hot cavern where bats are flying around and hanging on the sides of the cave. Hassan in Filipino means ladder, so named the cave. The cave is naturally lit, the light coming through the holes in its ceiling. Quite a sight seeing the stalactites hanging from the ceiling and the pool of fresh and salt water below.
Stalactites
Pool of fresh and salt water
Natural light coming into the cave.
Our guide took some amazing pics of us in the cave...of course with the other camera.
Just outside the cave was a small village of souvenir shops. A lot of reasonably priced souvenirs.
We hopped into the tricycle and heading to the Shell Museum in Dolja. An amazing place with millions of shells from the south seas of the Philippines. The guide was very good at explaining what the shells were and telling us a little about them. We couldn't believe how many shells there were in this place, there were rooms full of display cases filled with shells.
These clam shells are imitation but are the actual size of clams in the south seas.
After going through the souvenir shop we exited to find a beautiful treehouse. She welcomed us to climb up into the treehouse, so we did. It was very well constructed and would be so much fun for kids.
Treehouse
Lots of room in the treehouse.
Stairway up to the treehouse.
Our driver was waiting for us and we asked him to take us to Dolja Beach so we could look around.
The tide was up so there wasn't much beach, boats in the water, restaurants on the beach and a large resort.
Maybe the entertainment at that restaurant...
Yhul, our driver, told us he lived nearby. We noticed that this area of the island seemed to be more populated, homes looked nicer and the towns seemed to be bustling with people and shops.
Our last stop was at St. Augustine Church.
St. Augustine Church
Yhul, told us the back tower was the only thing damaged in the 2013 earthquake.
Didn't appear to be a lot of damage on this tower.
It's a very large building. We weren't able to get into the church as it was closed. We did peek through a small window seeing beautiful paintings, an extraordinary sanctuary area and a huge area filled with pews. It was too bad it was closed.
Monument outside the church.
Bell tower
Monument with a private Catholic School behind. Yhul said his son goes to that high school. It seemed very important that his children get a good education.
Something we all should live by...
Yhul drove us back to Alona Beach where we ended this great afternoon of touring, with supper at Trudi's and watching the sunset on Alona Beach.
So beautiful...
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