Laguna Trip

Saturday, July 1 - Sunday 2

⤱ Laguna ⤱

⟴ Accommodatin

      ⤷ Pagsanjan Falls Lodge Resort









⟴ Alaminos
      ⤷ Social visit

⟴ San Pablo
      ⤷ Pandin Lake

Pandin Lake has the most pristine water among the seven lakes in San Pablo where visitors can swim in the lake, take a balsa ride or eat on the floating balsa kubo.

There is no entrance fee.




⟴ Nagcarlan
      ⤷ Nagcarlan Underground Cemetery
      ⤷ Nagcarlan Underground Museum

⟴ Nagcarlan Underground Cemetery

Fr. Vicente Velloc supervised the establishment of a cemetery in Nagcarlan in 1845 below Mt. San Cristobal. Unlike the traditional Spanish cemeteries at that time, Fr. Velloc decided to build it away from the town's center. The cemetery is planned to serve as a public resting place for the people of the town while the underground chamber below the chapel of the cemetery will only house remains of Spanish friars and prominent people. It was built together with the construction of the expanded St. Bartholomew Parish Church and rectory. The cemetery is built with a chapel where funeral masses was held and directly below it is an underground crypt.

⟴ Museo sa Ilalim ng Lupa ng Nagcarlan
(Underground Cemetery Museum)

Located underneath the structure is the crypt, its entrance standing at the right side of the chapel’s main door. The crypt has a vaulted ceiling while two grilled windows, at level with the chapel’s upper grounds, provide light to the otherwise dark interior. A simple altar façade provides an axial point to the 36 niches of the crypt’s four walls.



To arrange a visit to the Museo sa Ilalim ng Lupa ng Nagcarlan, please contact:  
Museum Curator: Cecilla Sumague
Cellular phone number: +639178521503
Email Add: mlilnagcarlan@gmail.com
Open from Tuesday to Sunday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

⟴ Calauan 
      ⤷ Calauan Isdaan Park Restaurant
Address: National Hwy, Bay, Laguna
Hours: 0800-2200
Phone: 0923 441 6756

⟴ Pagsanjan 

Pagsaŋjan Falls also known as Cavinti Falls (indigenous name: Magdapio Falls) is one of the most famous waterfalls in the Philippines. Located in the province of Laguna, the falls is one of the major tourist attractions of the region. The three-drop waterfall is reached by a river trip on dugout canoe, known locally as Shooting the rapids, originating from the municipality of Pagsanjan. The falls can also be reached from the top by a short hike from Cavinti. The boat ride has been an attraction since the Spanish Colonial Era with the oldest written account in 1894. The town of Pagsanjan lies at the confluence of two rivers, the Balanac River and the Bumbungan River (also known as the Pagsanjan River).

The most popular way of reaching the falls is through the Shooting the rapids boat ride, which originates from any of the resorts along Bumbungan and Balanac Rivers. Two skilled and licensed boatmen takes one to three passengers on wooden or fiberglass, long, narrow canoes to the falls, which could take more than an hour of paddling upstream depending on traffic and water level. The journey takes passengers through the narrow and verdant Pagsanjan Gorge lined with huge boulders, rocks and small waterfalls. The ride upstream ends in a natural pool below the falls where an optional raft ride takes visitors through a curtain of cascading water to the Devil's cave behind the falls. The return trip called Shooting the rapids is a thrill ride through fourteen rapids as the skilled boatmen maneuvers the boat through the narrow rocks as it head downstream.

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