For a long time I had hoped to do another cave tour similar to the Cave Connection in Mulu National Park on Borneo: adventurous enough to be exciting and thrilling, but simple enough for them to make normal mortal tourists like me. Finally it has worked: Sagada has its own cave connection between the Lumiang Cave and the Sumaguing Cave.
Northern Hemisphere. Philippines. Northern Luzon. How nice, again a culture hardly known to me, where I do not know what to expect! Practically, in a country with over 7000 islands, there are almost as many languages, of course, but the official languages are Tagalog and English, making communication easy. The real language seems to me to be "Taglish" ...
What's good for 100,000 people a year can not be bad, right? Time for me to do the most popular day hike in New Zealand, the Tongariro Alpine Crossing! I booked the earliest shuttle (driving to the mountain by car is not welcome) so I'm already in the lane at 5:15 am, about an hour before sunrise. Obviously I have ...