Masungi Georeserve

Manila’s new nature trail lets you experience this geopark at night - SilverKris

"An appointment-only, 1,600-hectare conservation area of dramatic limestone pinnacles with a web-like steel-cable viewing platform marked by a giant spider sculpture called Sapot. Once heavily damaged by quarrying and illegal logging, the forest has recovered under conservation management and opened to visitors in late 2015, offering small-group (7–10 people) guided tours. Trails and structures are themed after natural elements and native fauna—examples include the hanging tunnel bridge Sawa (python), the cliff-side climbing net Bayawak (monitor lizard) and the elevated raindrop-shaped shelter Patak—and guides from the indigenous Dumagat community point out plants’ practical and medicinal uses. A recently launched nighttime Discovery Trail highlights nocturnal life, with fireflies, neon-green dwarf wood scorpions visible under UV light, calling frogs, bats and crickets, and can produce sightings of Luzon hornbills and the elusive Northern Luzon giant cloud rat. Conservation fees are roughly 1,500 pesos per person on weekdays and 1,800 pesos on weekends, and tours must be booked in advance." - SilverKris