BANTAY ABOT CAVE

Location: Sitio Mabubua, Baloi, Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte, Philippines

A part of the topographay Pagudpud beach coast
Bantay Abot Cave is not really a hill, but rather a hill with a hole along the shores of the town of Baloi in Ilocos Norte.  It has rock formations which is believed to be formed by earthquakes in the past.

Tourist markers for the Bantay Abot Cave

At a distance,  this hill with a hole is like an image of a green whale resting ashore. We dropped by here after a drive coming from an overnight in Pagudpud Beach.

The sight of beach coast from the Bantay Abot Cave

On the other hand,  this tourist spot is more than 40 minutes coming from Bangui Windmills though this is not accessible along the main road since you have to drive down to a periphery road going there.

A stone-made stairs coming from the periphery road going to the site

A swim on its beach coast is not recommended here because like that in Bangui coast, the waves are very strong, though rock scrambling on its shallow part can be done.

Bantay Abot Cave at a distance

The rock formations on this cave is ideally good for photography or other location shooting that you might want to have like pre-nuptial, but you need to be watchful of the rocks for they might be slippery when wet.

From this point, we pushed to Kabigan water falls with a separate blog  post here.