The Cave Where The Wind Blows
"The cave you fear to enter, holds the hidden wonders of the world..." Hoyop-Hoyopan Cave. April 04, 2018. When I was a kid, I am not very fond of caves. I've watched in cartoons that caves are home of wild grizzly bears and blood-sucking bats. Guess most of them are fiction. First of all, grizzly bears do not exist in The Philippines. Second, bats do not suck blood of human. As I grew older, I become amazed in caves. How they are formed by certain processes such as weathering, tectonic activities, pressure, erosion from water and even by microorganisms. Lucky for me, I am able to explore a cave for the very first time, here at my home province, Albay. In barangay Cotmon of the municipality of Camalig, lies a cave called "Hoyop-Hoypan" Cave. What is "Hoyop-Hoyopan"? "Hoyop" is a Bicolano word which means "Blow" . The cave got its name by the presence of wind blowing through the cave from the outside. This is possib...