Solong Eco Park

Our tour started at this aquarium near the comfort room that I use. This fish looks different, as it has an alligator nose and mouth. That's why it is called "alligator fish". From the appearance itself, his mother is a fish, and the husband is an alligator. Well, that's just my theory. 🤔

Welcome to Solong Eco Park! This is located in Bicol Province, directly in Albay. This is my first time here. And our tour guide volunteered to take a snap of our group.

And what comes in a park? Flowers. Or I can say a bunch of flowers...

It's beautiful to look at a place that has different kinds and colors of flowers. And this place has it. They maintained the blossoms so well that it blooms a lot.

This park also has a Pororo bridge.

Well, before I forgot... The time we went there is the day when my brother and his girlfriend is celebrating their 2nd anniversary. So, as you can see... We're just their photographer. Lol.

Anyways, nothing more exciting on that bridge... But on the other end, there's a bee house. We didn't go there as we were afraid that it might sting us.

Now, we're going to the Crystal Cave. And before we can step into that cave, we need to hike 272 steps. I didn't count it but the tour guide said it's 272. 😅

This is what they made as a walkway. A truck tire, a lot of truck tires. Imagine it has 272 steps and how many truck tires do you think it needed to accomplish this? 😅 That's a lot I can say. But this is good as it's not slippery when wet.

We go step by step and take a selfie...

Till we reach the top. It's a little bit tiring, but there's a bahay kubo where we can take a rest first and finish the whole steps.

While resting, there's a big photo frame where we can enjoy the beautiful view as a background.

I think all are energetic again so it's time to finish the few more steps to reach the crystal cave.

Finally, we reached it.

It looks like a big rock and a bat house. This cave also has a gate and a padlock on it.

Sorry for the model. He looks scary, isn't he? 😅 This gate was always closed and locked. Anyone without permission cannot easily enter it. Do you know why?

From the name itself "Crystal Cave", there's a lot of crystal inside. And the owner does the mining so a lot of holes and digging happened there.

Inside, you can see a lot of stalagmites formed from the cave.

It is amazing to see but not allowed to hold by anyone. My Mom tried to touch it but the tour guide stopped her as it can cause acidity and soon the stalagmites might die.

After that, the crystals were introduced. We keep on asking the tour guide where it can be seen as we were so curious. While walking she just picks some at the walkway, and there you go. It's crystal.

It's just scattered everywhere as you can just pick it up somewhere. There's a lot of it there, and now I can say why it's called "crystal cave". But as the tour guide said, it's strictly not allowed to get crystal there. But we got some. 🤫 She knows that. And said not to post it online. But I did now. Am I that bad? 🙈

By the way, there's a dinosaur in this cave.

Can you see it? It's not the person standing. Look at the rock formation. 👀 The tour guide said it's a dinosaur but for me, it's a chameleon. Lol.

Anyway, this cave is not the end of our journey.

We still need to go to the portal and the beautiful chocolate hills at the top.

Of course, this portal might look so spacious without a model, right? So here you go. 😂

And then at the rightmost top of this is the chocolate hills as they say.

Is it beautiful? Good thing the rain stopped and the hills are almost out and visible.

This is the last part of it. I hope you enjoy our journey. 🤗

💖 Disclaimer: All photographs by me, unless otherwise stated.