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Sagada Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Sagada, Philippines
Easier Path To Heaven?
This is a top pick! ... the cook is dancing. This surprisingly poor but amazingly friendly customer service that we are bumping into all through the Philippines is starting to rival the Jeepneys as a lasting memory of the country. The afternoon saw DH challenging her Splunking ...
The story of the ATM
This is a top pick! Sagada, Philippines - The epitome of mountain cool, Sagada (1477m) is where you go if you want to escape from civilization for a few days. The area has caves, peaks, waterfalls and hanging coffins. I didn't reach Sagada till late in the afternoon. I ...
Caves,Waterfalls and animal sacrifice
This is a top pick! Sagada was a great, small mountain town. Everyone told us this was a must see, but after reading that it was famous for caves and waterfalls I was wondering how many more of these I could really enjoy. I was proved wrong! The caves here were simply ...
Stairway to heaven
... we were on a mountain pass heading through the Banue Rice Terraces region. They are the only UN protected heritage site in the Philippines. The pictures don't do them justice! We didn't get much sleep after that as the bus winded its way through the hair ...
Going to Sagada
After the wedding is all done with now and getting over my hang over, I am going to Sagada which is well known trekking area and rice terraces, It is also a 6hr bus ride!!! The ticket is cheap at £4.00 and the bus is no more than I expected, a ...
Community spirit
Just to upset my muscles a little more, this morning I was back on another jeepney to Bontoc, and then another (which actually made me feel a little travel sick - too many tight corners turned at speed) to Banaue. Once back in Bananue I headed ...
Fiesta Time
... to smoke on more than one occasion but decline and have a couple of san Miguel’s instead. It is a lovely place Sagada and doesn’t take long for it to grow on you, the pace and the fantastic surroundings, I am trying ...
On the (bumpy) road again
... fried egg) before sitting on the jeepney to Bontoc at 8am, to then jump aboard a second jeepney to take me to Sagada. At midday I arrived, and registered at the tourist information centre, something all tourists have to do, before making way down the ...
Sagada - back to the roots!
... des plus beau que j'aie fait, où se succèdent forêts de pins, vallées verdoyantes et rizières en terrasses. Sagada est une petite bourgade sommeillante perdue dans la montagne, avec une seule rue où s'alignent petites épiceries et cafés. ...
Arrrive a - Segada - We are at
Salut tout le monde Nous allons bien. Nous sommes partie ce matin tres tot pour Segada. Nous avons du marcher pour rejoindre notre autobus puisqu'il y avait une parade ce matin a Baguio. Nous avons rate le festival des fleurs mais nous sommes arrive ...
Cave connection
So after another haggled jeepney ride I arrived in Sagada on a damp afternoon. Not a lot to choose from here in terms of accomodation so I picked a spartan room in a quirky hotel over a spartan room in a spartan hotel. All you need is somewhere clean to ...
Caving in to the challenge
... take in the mass of stacked, impossibly small and narrow coffins that lined the entrance of the cave - a traditional burial method for Sagada people. The dead are placed in a foetal position, as its believed you should leave the earth in the same position ...
We off to find hanging coffins
When we read the Lonely Planet is described Sagada as a hippy hangout full of travellers. We were looking forward to chilling out in bars mingling with other like minded folks and going for walks during the day. We checked into a cheap room with communal ...
Sentier a - Sagada - Trekking at
Salut tout le monde, Nous allons bien. Nous sommes toujours a Sagada. Hier soir nous avons rencontre un couple de francais qui nous ont amene manger du chien. He oui, nous avons essayer. Je vous entend deja "japper" sur la question. Ici c'est tres ...
Stunning scenery in Sagada
... little things like our bus toppling off the side. Besides, I’d prayed to my guardian angel for protection….the Philippines has helped me discover a new found faith in guardian angels. There have been so many opportunities for me to pray for ...
Sagada
... trip to the tranquil mountain top town of Sagada. The journey brought better weather and eventually blazing sunshine. Sagada was beautiful with amazing mountain backdrops, not many tourists and hardly any traffic. Children were always in ...
Echo Valley Monster
... first bunch we have seen since the roof garden in Manila. This isn't a complaint more an observation, again we chose the Philippines knowing there would be less white folk. Plus you only yearn to see familiar coloured faces when the locals are staring, ...
Sagada - Hanging Coffins
... only inches from a few hundred foot drop (please consult tables for all people who work on the metric system). I arrived in Sagada around about 4pm and checked into the Masferre Inn, which was the nearest accommodation to the bus stop (I am a backpacker ...
Learning a little about the locals
... rice paddies we walked through later to the waterfall, also nearly all but destroyed through bad rains. Sagada, like I presume other parts of the Philippines, would have once been under water, with a prevalence of limestone rock formations towering above ...
Sagada and Baguio
Now we continued our travels in the north of the Philippines and headed to a places called Sagada to check out the hanging coffins, which are literally coffins that have hung off cliff walls and in cave mouths. Whilst there Elliot decided to get this ...
Taking it easy in Sagada
... in Sagada After another long buss ride (7 hours) i reached my current location a few days a go - A backpacker retreat called Sagada (pop 1350, elevation about 1600 m) in the mountains in northern Luzon. Here I chill out in the delightful mountain ...
Waking up in the clouds
... , we open our eyes early in the morning and are in the middle of a cloud. Oh and it's freezing (for the Philippines). As the clouds lift and we take a jeepney from Bontoc to Sagada, we are wide-eyed at the beautiful rice-terraces all ...
Trekking and Caving in Sagada
We think Sagada has the most charm of the Mountain Province. It has good eating at the Yogurt house and my favorite the Yellow Pie House. The houses are well built; often 3 to 5 stories with lots of re-bar and cement; built to last. Lots of pine trees ...
Mountain Province Cordillera Range
... out the window the whole time. Up in the clouds passing terraces of vegetables and rice as far as you could see. Sagada is a beautiful little mountain town and very quiet as well a nice change from the busy highway through San Juan and a ...
Our Favorite Bus Ride
... dead, their coffins are hung on mountains or placed within caves . . . the very caves we were to explore). Reaching Sagada would require taking 2 buses, 1 from Manila to a town 6 hours away, then transfer on to another bus for another 6 hour ...
I dont beeeeeeeeeelive it!
... constant walking, albeit much of it slow! BUT I MADE IT!!!!! i was knacked and could even eat dinner.... now i am in sagada however and feeling fine, no mussle fatigue. the morning after reaching barlig, be caught a jeepney to bontoc and changed for ...
Caving
... spent the night in the cave and only the next morning went to get help. The bodies of three victims were found two days later, much further down the cave. The evening was spent making a plan B if the rain closed the roads out of Sagada the next day. ...