Cumaca Cave

Located in the southeastern area of the Northern Range, Cumaca is a small, sparse village, located an hour from the Eastern Main Road on a very rough road. The rugged beauty of the rainforested hills and valleys around you as you drive smooths out all bumps along the way. The trail begins at what seems to be an abandoned road and has become only suitable for traffic of the two, four, six or eight-footed kind. If done at a reasonable pace the trail takes about one and a half hours to reach the cave, however, with birding, nature viewing and other interesting stuff happening around you, it usually takes from two to three hours to reach the cave. The last stretch of trail is usually quite muddy.

The cave itself is made up of several caverns reaching hundreds of feet into the mountainside. As you enter the first cavern the loud clicks and squawks of about four hundred "Devilbirds" or Oilbirds greet you. Spend some time here viewing these marvels of nature. If you wish to explore further into the cave you will see chambers with stalactites, stalagmites, bats flying around you, and blind fish swimming about. One passage between caverns is very low and you have to scrunch down with half your body in the river, lots of fun.

The return is the way you came, and of course there is still a lot to see on the return.