Banaue Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Sun 8th November 2009 Bayombong

Bayombong is the last place which we are going to visit in the Philippines.

We were going to Bayombong from Manila, in a van and for six hours all through lunch time. The road was very bumpy and we were tired and exhausted. We were going over the hills. Dad said it was a small town in the middle of n...

We got back to Manila at 18:00, at the middle of rush hour. We took a cab to the Auto Bus terminal for 200 pesos. We bought tickets to Banaue for 425 each. There is only one bus a day at 22:00. Later we found out that GV Florida, right next to Auto Bus also went to Banaue. I saw the bus and it was much nicer than the Auto Bus, so I wanted to swi...

While everyone was packing up to leave, a few of us learned a few more of the Ifugao culture from the hotel manager, Tess.  Apparently the Banaue View Inn was originally owned by Dr. Henry Otley Beyer, an American Anthropologist who spent most of his life in the Philippines studying the Ifugao culture.  With the acceptance of the Ifugao people, ...

We hired a Jeepney to take ~10 of us through Banaue to the mountain ridge overlooking Batad village.  We hiked as close as we could get to Batad and ate Lunch.  We learned about the Ifugao culture through a native I met, named Pedro.  We decided not to continue hiking into Batad since we knew we would have to hike back up to our starting point. ...

I boarded the rickety bus packed with Filipinos and held tight as it lurched forward. A pillow from my moldy towel and a few Tylenol PM, and I was out. My Odyssey had set sail. At promptly 4:30 a.m., the ticket collector shook me awake. I departed, and instantly after my foot hit the ground, the bus vanished into the night. Alone, I stood awkwar...

In another beautiful rice terrace filled city! The trip here from Sagada is one of the best bus trips ever!!!

Greeting's to all!! This last week of traveling with Heidi has been one of the highlights of our trip and one of the most physically active portions as well! On Sunday we loaded a bus leaving Baguio at 1pm and headed to Sagada, Mountain Province. Sagada is a beautiful little mountain town about 7 hours north of where I live and is known for thei...

I picked up a book a few months ago called Take Me With You by Brad Newsham. Brad was traveling when he was in his twenties and decided that one day when he had enough money he would make another trip around the world and pick someone to visit him in the United States. He traveled through the Philippines and met a man named Tony in Banaue. They ...

I have been so so lazy at writing this travelog that I have to break the cycle and tell you, albeit very briefly about Phillipines. It will be more a rambling of memories than a comical essay but the photos tell most of the story if your in a rush. The month spent here was filled with lots of moving about on jeepneys (left over US jeeps which ar...

Entry to the rice terraces. I seem to recall a jeepney ride that went way up into the hills on apparently the highest road in the Phillapines, some times singleish track and mostly gravel. At one point reversing to allow a full sized bus to get around the hairpin bend meant that we were so close to the edge Kirsty looked down from our seats at t...