Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this LodgeSanafe Lodge Banaue
Lights Out
Took the night bus from Manila originally to Lagawe. A bridge had collapsed because of the typhoon just days ago. Missed it by three days by the time I arrived in Manila. The owner of Friendly's said it was the worse he had seen. But the flooding went down quickly in Manila and folks were laying papers out to dry.
Once I got to Lagawe …
Rice Terraces of World Heritage proportions
The trip to Banaue took a bit of pitching to Kev, who felt we'd already visited a lot of rice terraces on our trip and wasn’t sure it was worth the arduous journey to see more. To make my job even harder were stories of how hit and miss the weather is, with mist and rain often obscuring the view. Even Michael Palin failed to see anything when …
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A la montagne ... non loin de la Bretagne
... n’est pas sûr d’avoir de quoi nous loger, qu’il va falloir qu’on cuisine nous-même, et puis qu’elle a trop l’habitude des woofers qui viennent profiter du paysage et ne rien faire etc etc... Ses propos finissent par devenir incohérents, elle dira finalement qu’elle blaguait et que l’on peut rester sans soucis... après 1/2h de discussions ! Tout cela nous refroidit aussi sec et nous décidons de nous ...
Road back to Manila
... listed mud-walled rice terraces. They are a spectacular sight but since there isn’t a great deal more to do in Banaue I headed back to town and sat around watching the school kids pile into the jeepneys till the afternoon for a bus back to Manila.
The nine hour bus ride was a little rough but it landed me safely back in Manila at three in the morning. I found a 24hr hotel above a bar (which I'm pretty sure doubles as a brothel) to sleep what was left of the night.
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Mountain Province
... I found my way to an underground river which you can follow for ten minutes if you are willing to get a little wet and have a flashlights and solid nerves. After Echo Valley I walked out to a small waterfall amidst some rice terraces in a small valley just behind Sagada, which had me sufficiently exhausted to call it quits for the day.
As soon as it got dark, the rain came and pummelled the village making wandering the muddy and steep streets a little perilous. A ...


