The Petroglyphs — look, do not touch

The Angono–Binangonan Petroglyphs sit in a rock shelter toward Binangonan: human and animal figures cut into volcanic tuff around 3000 BC. About 127 of them. The National Museum keeps the site. The rock is not a canvas for you.

Carlos “Botong” Francisco walked into them in 1965 with Boy Scouts. That find is why the town’s painting and its oldest art share a sentence.

From Kabesera it is the second stop of the day — after coffee, before the poblacion. A weekday morning is quieter. You look from the deck they built so the stone can rest.

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