The Angono Petroglyphs display 127 figures of human and animal engraved on the rock wall. It is considered to be the oldest known artworks in th Philippines dating back 3000 B.C. in the province of Rizal. It is included in the list of National Cultural Treasures in 1973 and World Inventory of Rock Art in 1985.

Angono Petroglyphs was discovered by the late Carlos "Botong" Francisco a National Artist for Visual Arts in 1965. He visited the place together with some boy scouts to notice a remarkable carvings and reported it to the National Museum.

I met Mr. Cesar Hernandez (a.ka. Obra Maestra on Facebook) also an artist who paints that guided me to reach Angono Cave as he had described it. It made my search easy after a while of questioning to find the place to people I had met. In addition, he told me interesting stories about Mr. Botong Franciso's interest to climbing mountain that leads to the discovery of the site, the boundaries struggle of now known as Angono-Binangonan Petroglyphs as the site is reachable via Angono and discovered by Mr. Franciso from Angono but the area is covered by Binangonan, and galleries around Angono town that made me excited.

From Angono Town, I contracted Wilson Gutierrez a tricycle driver to bring me to the Angono Petroglyphs. Eventually, he also helped me visit different galleries. It was also his first to visit such beautiful galleries of paintings and sculptures in his hometown.

The cave is actually a man made that was originally planned as a way to the golf course of nearby Thunderbird a "hotel" or "casino". It was stopped because it might collapse if they would continue drilling it. They instead hired around 200 indigenous people to create a hole to another end with an estimate of around 200 meters passageway being use now for the visitors of the petroglyphs site.

We missed to see the actual site because it was still undergoing renovation of the viewing deck. It was restricted for visitors and fully covered .

However, we got a photos of the actual site By Raffy-ish (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons. 

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