After a delicious meal of fried pork fat (no seriously, insanely delicious), we got ready to go check out Sagada's caves. While we had the option of doing the more serious caving, we opted for the easier one.
Here's how it went down:
We started off with an easy walk down to one cave to see a very large collection of coffins. Notice again that there are the shorter kind. Jun, our guide, was pointing out that some of the ends of the coffins look like faces. Do you see it?
Then we had a 1.5 kilometer walk to the next cave.
More rice terraces. I still think they're pretty. :o)
Just like Colorado, right?
Like I mentioned before we opted for the easier cave, but we were still a bit nervous...
No need! We just followed our guides and had a blast!
I lost him! Where'd he go??
These formations were like walking on a pumice stone; it was easier to walk barefoot, and there was no way to slip.
I liked these particular formations since they looked like rice terraces.
Now with even smaller "terraces!"
We hit the dead end and had fun going back up.
Did I mention that there was no way to slip???
:o)
No, mom. No falling here.
A lovely way to spend the afternoon!
On the way back into town, Jun needed a snack and decided to instruct us on how to eat "balut" properly. For those of you who don't know, balut is a fertilized duck egg that is cooked inside the shell. So imagine making a hard-boiled egg and cracking it open to find a little blob that would have grown a beak, feet, and feathers in a week's time. Yep. Filipinos get excited when they see that.
Oh, we wouldn't want to spoil our appetite for dinner now, would we???
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