Overview: Sometimes called the Sohoton Natural Bridge National Park, due to its stunning rock formation that forms a natural bridge across a gorge. Equally stunning are the park's limestone gorges and caves, and lowland limestone rainforest.
Eco features: Established as a park in 1935, The Sohoton Natural Bridge National Park has a medley of cathedral-like caves, sky-lit caverns, tunnels, weathered rocks and towering limestone cliffs, waterfalls, caves and subterranean rivers. The three main areas in the park — Panhulugan I and II, the Sohoton and Bugosan — are home to cathedral-like caves, which served as resting grounds for the departed indigenous people in the area. The park is also home to endangered species like the Philippine eagle, Philippine cockatoo, tarsier, flying lemur, and 12 plant species, some of which are orchids and ferns. The area has the largest remaining intact tracts of tropical lowland rainforests in the country, which harbors some 2,400 species of flowers including 400 that are endemic to the Philippines, and another 400 endemic to Samar. Other natural splendors are the Cadac-an River, the largest in the area, and species like foxes, bats, hornbills, pheasants, kingfishers, and some reptiles, amphibians and insects.
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Frogmouth Bird Photo and Article Source: Inflight Magazine ( Seair) |
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