Sagada Cave Connection & Echo Valley

This full-day adventure in the cool highlands of Sagada combines the country's most famous spelunking route with a hike to its iconic hanging coffins. The Cave Connection links two great caves, Lumiang and Sumaguing, into a single underground traverse of roughly three to four hours, where you crawl through tight passages, swim through cold subterranean pools and clamber down slick rock faces by the light of a lantern.

At the mouth of Lumiang Cave you pass a wall of around 100 ancient wooden coffins, some estimated to be 500 years old, stacked nine layers high, a striking reminder of the Igorot burial tradition still practised here. The route emerges through the chambers and formations of Sumaguing Cave, often called the Big Cave.

The day also includes a hike through Echo Valley, passing St. Mary's Episcopal Church and a hillside cemetery to a cliff face where wooden coffins hang from the rock, the famous hanging coffins of Sagada. It is an unforgettable mix of physical adventure and living indigenous culture.