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Puerto Princesa Subterranean River

An 8.2-kilometer navigable underground river inside a karst mountain — UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature. Paddle boats move slowly through the cave while a torch catches a cathedral of stalactites, column formations, and roosting colonies of cave swiftlets overhead. The approach by boat along a jungle coastline, with monkeys and hornbills in the trees, sets the scene before the cave mouth even comes into view.

📸 Philip Nalangan (CC BY-SA 4.0), Mike Gonzalez (CC BY-SA 3.0), Vyacheslav Argenberg (CC BY 4.0) via Wikimedia Commons · Mike Gonzalez (CC BY-SA 3.0), Ian Lopez (CC BY), ggtec (CC BY-SA 4.0) via Wikimedia Commons

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