August 17-20, 2012 Sagada-All-U-Can long Holiday Till August 22!

August 17-20, 2012 for only P3,500.00 inclusive of transportation, 3 days/2nights accommodation, and tour packages with tour guides and tourism fees and surprises!

ITINERARY 

August 17 Friday @ 10:00pm Assembly of joiners: Philippine Rabbit, Sta. Cruz, Manila beside the Old Odeon Theatre
If 29 in number: chartered bus
Other buses may be considered...

FIRST DAY
7:00am Baguio Breakfast
8:00am Dangwa
12:00am Lunch in Sagada, Mountain Province
1:00pm Tourists’ Registration, St. Joseph’s Resthouse
2:00pm Sumag-ing Cave, Hanging Coffins, Burial Caves
7:00pm Souvenir Shopping/EAT OUT, Dinner/Free Time

SECOND DAY
7:00am Breakfast
8:00-12:00n Bomod-ok Falls, Sagada Terraces, A Walk Over Rice Paddies
12:00-3:00pm Lake Danum & Group Lunch
3:00-6:00pm Sagada Pottery Shop, St. Mary The Virgin Compound, Echo Valley, Calvary
7:00pm Souvenir Shopping/ EAT OUT, Dinner/Free Time

THIRD DAY
7:00am Mass/Breakfast
8:00-12:00am Bontoc Museum, Banaue Rice Terraces
9:00pm Manila

Details of Itinerary are subject to changes. PAYMENTS: deposit full payments before August 17, 2012.

LANDBANK ACCOUNT NAME:Ramos, Roderick B. 
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 1987126236 
DEPOSIT SLIP will serve as your official receipt. 
Deadline: August 17, 2012

August 17-20 Sagada-All-U-Can long Holiday Till August 22!

Hurry, tourists flock and guesthouses get occupied so fast! Reserve as early as now (non-refundable). 

• The travel is open to all. Bring friends and your family! Text complete name, institution, gender and age @ 09187318010 and confirm attendance.
• Warm up and flex your muscles or exercise before the event. Join in good health.
• For Sagada cold weather during night time, wear a thick jacket/sweater, gloves, a bonnet or a cap for the head plus socks, neck protection.
• Bring your sunglass, sunblock, moisturizer, cap/umbrella, medicines; baon for 3 days and 2 nights; & extra money for food, souvenirs, etc.
• Bring water at all times.
• Bring a self-help book or a bag of periodicals/books or a box for Bomabanga National High School.
• Going to Sagada (12 hours) transforms you into a backpacker.
• Fee of 3,500 pesos is inclusive of room reservation fee, transportation, accommodation, tour packages & guide fees, tourism fees, museum fee, pottery shop w/ demo fee, day-tour van/jeep)
• Take care of your personal belongings. The tour coordinators will not be responsible for losses from Manila to Sagada, vice-versa.
ASSEMBLY 
• Be at the bus station of the Philippine Rabbit @ 10pm beside the Old Odeon Theatre
• Departure is 11pm. Get enough sleep each day...

ACCOMMODATION
• Joiners’ rooms are economy rooms, either good for two or four with common bath. (Other room rates for upgrade/night: private rooms with hot/cold bath, good for 3, 1,700; 2, 1,200; 4, 2,200; cottages with hot/cold bath, good for 3, 1,700; 4, 2000; 8, 3500)
• Beddings are provided. There is an extra cost for an extra blanket.
• Bring your toiletries.
• Water in Sagada is ice cold but tolerable during shower.
• Water is scarce when there is a big number of tourists in the municipality.
• Hot water/water heater is available in the resthouse (St. Joseph’s Resthouse).
• Battery charging is allowed.

TOUR 
• Wake up early, greet & say your beautiful mornings to all and eat heavy breakfast @ 7am. 7:45am tour assembly is in front of the Municipality Hall. @ 8am, all in the van/jeep and tour begins.
• Wear non-white and jeans are a no in doing spelunking (caving) in the Sumag-ing Cave (Thursday) or walking over rice paddies to Bomod-ok Falls (Friday). Be in simplest attire at all times and shorts, sandals or slippers are okay.
• All ages are admitted including kids of 4 and can go down the cave or aim also for Bomod-ok Falls for four (4) hours each.
• No step-ins down the cave. The group will be going down barefoot or barefooted. There will be pool swimming, spelunking, rapeling, etc.
• Friday walk to Bomod-ok Falls: bring food for your merienda and lunch and your swimsuit.
• Little fasting is a yes-yes! But eat fruits, bread, drink water or juice or raw vegetables with some sauce, avoid cola.
Others
• Sagada is very people-friendly. Understand dwellers’ accent.
• Listen to tourist guides and guides are accommodating. If you have inquiries, ask them.
• You may give a personal tip and be informed that a group tip is already part of your travel fees. If asking for a personal guide, provide also a personal tip. Two (2) guides for a group of 10.
• Text @ 09187318010 if you have inquiries or decide to eat and be somewhere in the municipality on top of caves
• Don’t forget to try lemon pie or blue berry pie w/ brewed coffee, or be @ the Lemon Pie House or Yoghurt House. Be & eat out also anywhere: Alfredo’s, Log Cabin, Cusina Igorota, Sagada Guest House, Olahbinan, Igorot Inn, Sudimay, and other small eateries.
• Establishments close @ 9pm except for St. Theodore Hospital with a pharmacy.
• Saturday is market day. Buy a lot near the Municipality Hall.
• See Sagada online-resources for other tips for an EXCITING, RELAXING & PLEASURABLE TRIP to the HIGHLANDS of MOUNTAIN PROVINCE.

• Opinions are welcome before, during and after Sagada trip!
• Exploring Sagada is team-building and one learning experience to share, discover and enjoy good life in Cordillera.

May 25-28 Sagada ALL You Can, 2nd of A Summer Series

Only P3,500.00 inclusive of transportation, 3 days/2nights accommodation, and tour packages with tour guides and tourism fees and surprises! Add 200 for zipline try and 100-200 for Baguio's 1st Class Asin Hot Spring (Optional)

ITINERARY

May 25 Friday @ 10:00pm Assembly of joiners: Philippine Rabbit, Sta. Cruz, Manila beside the Old Odeon Theatre
If 29 in number: chartered bus
Other buses may be considered...
Van is not encouraged

FIRST DAY
7:00am Baguio Breakfast
8:00am Dangwa
12:00am Lunch in Sagada, Mountain Province
1:00pm Tourists’ Registration, St. Joseph’s Resthouse/Page-et's House
2:00pm Sumag-ing Cave, Hanging Coffins, Burial Caves
7:00pm Souvenir Shopping/EAT OUT, Dinner/Free Time

SECOND DAY
7:00am Breakfast
8:00-12:00n Bomod-ok Falls, Sagada Terraces, A Walk Over Rice Paddies
12:00-3:00pm Lake Danum & Group Lunch
3:00-6:00pm Sagada Pottery Shop, St. Mary The Virgin Compound, Echo Valley, Calvary
7:00pm Souvenir Shopping/ EAT OUT, Dinner/Free Time

THIRD DAY
7:00am Mass/Breakfast
8:00-12:00am Bontoc Museum, Banaue Rice Terraces
11:30pm Bus To Manila

Details of Itinerary are subject to changes. PAYMENTS: deposit full payments before May 15, 2012 and is non-refundable.

LANDBANK ACCOUNT NAME:Ramos, Roderick B.
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 1987126236
DEPOSIT SLIP will serve as your official receipt.

May 25-28

Sagada ALL You Can, 2nd of A Summer Series

Hurry, tourists flock and guesthouses get occupied so fast! Reserve as early as now (non-refundable).

• The travel is open to all. Bring friends and your family! Text complete name, institution, gender and age @ 09187318010 and confirm attendance.
• Warm up and flex your muscles or exercise before the event. Join in good health.
• For Sagada cold weather during night time, wear a thick jacket/sweater, gloves, a bonnet or a cap for the head plus socks, neck protection.
• Bring your sunglass, sunblock, moisturizer, cap/umbrella, medicines; baon for 3 days and 2 nights; & extra money for food, souvenirs, etc.
• Bring water at all times.
• Bring a self-help book or a bag of periodicals/books or a box for Sagada National High School.
• Going to Sagada (12 hours) transforms you into a backpacker.
• Fee of 3,500 pesos is inclusive of room reservation fee, transportation, accommodation, tour packages & guide fees, tourism fees, museum fee, pottery shop w/ demo fee, day-tour van/jeep)
• Take care of your personal belongings. The tour coordinators will not be responsible for losses from Manila to Sagada, vice-versa.
ASSEMBLY
• Be at the bus station of the Philippine Rabbit @ 10pm beside the Old Odeon Theatre
• Departure is 11pm. Get enough sleep each day...

ACCOMMODATION
• Joiners’ rooms are economy rooms, either good for two or four with common bath. (Other room rates for upgrade/night: private rooms with hot/cold bath, good for 3, 1,700; 2, 1,200; 4, 2,200; cottages with hot/cold bath, good for 3, 1,700; 4, 2000; 8, 3500) or @ Page-et's House
• Beddings are provided. There is an extra cost for an extra blanket.
• Bring your toiletries.
• Water in Sagada is ice cold but tolerable during shower.
• Water is scarce when there is a big number of tourists in the municipality.
• Hot water/water heater is available in the resthouse (St. Joseph’s Resthouse)/Page-et's House
• Battery charging is allowed.

TOUR
• Wake up early, greet & say your beautiful mornings to all and eat heavy breakfast @ 7am. 7:45am tour assembly is in front of the Municipality Hall. @ 8am, all in the van/jeep and tour begins.
• Wear non-white and jeans are a no in doing spelunking (caving) in the Sumag-ing Cave (Thursday) or walking over rice paddies to Bomod-ok Falls (Friday). Be in simplest attire at all times and shorts, sandals or slippers are okay.
• All ages are admitted including kids of 6 and can go down the cave or aim also for Bomod-ok Falls for four (4) hours each.
• No step-ins down the cave. The group will be going down barefoot or barefooted. There will be pool swimming, spelunking, rapeling, etc.
• Walk to Bomod-ok Falls: bring food for your merienda and lunch and your swimsuit.
• Little fasting is a yes-yes! But eat fruits, bread, drink water or juice or raw vegetables with some sauce, avoid cola.
Others
• Sagada is very people-friendly. Understand dwellers’ accent.
• Listen to tourist guides and guides are accommodating. If you have inquiries, ask them.
• You may give a personal tip and be informed that a group tip is already part of your travel fees. If asking for a personal guide, provide also a personal tip. Two (2) guides for a group of 10.
• Text @ 09187318010 if you have inquiries or decide to eat and be somewhere in the municipality on top of caves
• Don’t forget to try lemon pie or blue berry pie w/ brewed coffee, or be @ the Lemon Pie House or Yoghurt House. Be & eat out also anywhere: Alfredo’s, Log Cabin, Cusina Igorota, Sagada Guest House, Olahbinan, Igorot Inn, Sudimay, and other small eateries.
• Establishments close @ 9pm except for St. Theodore Hospital with a pharmacy.
• Saturday is market day. Buy a lot near the Municipality Hall.
• See Sagada online-resources for other tips for an EXCITING, RELAXING & PLEASURABLE TRIP to the HIGHLANDS of MOUNTAIN PROVINCE.

• Opinions are welcome before, during and after Sagada trip!
• Exploring Sagada is team-building and one learning experience to share, discover and enjoy good life in Cordillera.

April 4-7 Sagada's Beyond It's More Fun in the Philippines!

August 17-20, 2012 Sagada-All-U-Can long Holiday Till August 22!

August 17-20, 2012 for only P3,300.00 inclusive of transportation, 3 days/2nights accommodation, and tour packages with tour guides and tourism fees and surprises!

ITINERARY

August 17 Friday @ 10:00pm Assembly of joiners: Philippine Rabbit, Sta. Cruz, Manila beside the Old Odeon Theatre
If 29 in number: chartered bus
Other buses may be considered...

FIRST DAY
7:00am Baguio Breakfast
8:00am Dangwa
12:00am Lunch in Sagada, Mountain Province
1:00pm Tourists’ Registration, St. Joseph’s Resthouse
2:00pm Sumag-ing Cave, Hanging Coffins, Burial Caves
7:00pm Souvenir Shopping/EAT OUT, Dinner/Free Time

SECOND DAY
7:00am Breakfast
8:00-12:00n Bomod-ok Falls, Sagada Terraces, A Walk Over Rice Paddies
12:00-3:00pm Lake Danum & Group Lunch
3:00-6:00pm Sagada Pottery Shop, St. Mary The Virgin Compound, Echo Valley, Calvary
7:00pm Souvenir Shopping/ EAT OUT, Dinner/Free Time

THIRD DAY
7:00am Mass/Breakfast
8:00-12:00am Bontoc Museum, Banaue Rice Terraces
9:00pm Manila

Details of Itinerary are subject to changes. PAYMENTS: deposit full payments before August 17, 2012.

LANDBANK ACCOUNT NAME:Ramos, Roderick B.
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 1987126236
DEPOSIT SLIP will serve as your official receipt.
Deadline: August 17, 2012

August 17-20 Sagada-All-U-Can long Holiday Till August 22!

Hurry, tourists flock and guesthouses get occupied so fast! Reserve as early as now (non-refundable).

• The travel is open to all. Bring friends and your family! Text complete name, institution, gender and age @ 09187318010 and confirm attendance.
• Warm up and flex your muscles or exercise before the event. Join in good health.
• For Sagada cold weather during night time, wear a thick jacket/sweater, gloves, a bonnet or a cap for the head plus socks, neck protection.
• Bring your sunglass, sunblock, moisturizer, cap/umbrella, medicines; baon for 3 days and 2 nights; & extra money for food, souvenirs, etc.
• Bring water at all times.
• Bring a self-help book or a bag of periodicals/books or a box for Bomabanga National High School.
• Going to Sagada (12 hours) transforms you into a backpacker.
• Fee of 3,300 pesos is inclusive of room reservation fee, transportation, accommodation, tour packages & guide fees, tourism fees, museum fee, pottery shop w/ demo fee, day-tour van/jeep)
• Take care of your personal belongings. The tour coordinators will not be responsible for losses from Manila to Sagada, vice-versa.
ASSEMBLY
• Be at the bus station of the Philippine Rabbit @ 10pm beside the Old Odeon Theatre
• Departure is 11pm. Get enough sleep each day...

ACCOMMODATION
• Joiners’ rooms are economy rooms, either good for two or four with common bath. (Other room rates for upgrade/night: private rooms with hot/cold bath, good for 3, 1,700; 2, 1,200; 4, 2,200; cottages with hot/cold bath, good for 3, 1,700; 4, 2000; 8, 3500)
• Beddings are provided. There is an extra cost for an extra blanket.
• Bring your toiletries.
• Water in Sagada is ice cold but tolerable during shower.
• Water is scarce when there is a big number of tourists in the municipality.
• Hot water/water heater is available in the resthouse (St. Joseph’s Resthouse).
• Battery charging is allowed.

TOUR
• Wake up early, greet & say your beautiful mornings to all and eat heavy breakfast @ 7am. 7:45am tour assembly is in front of the Municipality Hall. @ 8am, all in the van/jeep and tour begins.
• Wear non-white and jeans are a no in doing spelunking (caving) in the Sumag-ing Cave (Thursday) or walking over rice paddies to Bomod-ok Falls (Friday). Be in simplest attire at all times and shorts, sandals or slippers are okay.
• All ages are admitted including kids of 4 and can go down the cave or aim also for Bomod-ok Falls for four (4) hours each.
• No step-ins down the cave. The group will be going down barefoot or barefooted. There will be pool swimming, spelunking, rapeling, etc.
• Friday walk to Bomod-ok Falls: bring food for your merienda and lunch and your swimsuit.
• Little fasting is a yes-yes! But eat fruits, bread, drink water or juice or raw vegetables with some sauce, avoid cola.
Others
• Sagada is very people-friendly. Understand dwellers’ accent.
• Listen to tourist guides and guides are accommodating. If you have inquiries, ask them.
• You may give a personal tip and be informed that a group tip is already part of your travel fees. If asking for a personal guide, provide also a personal tip. Two (2) guides for a group of 10.
• Text @ 09187318010 if you have inquiries or decide to eat and be somewhere in the municipality on top of caves
• Don’t forget to try lemon pie or blue berry pie w/ brewed coffee, or be @ the Lemon Pie House or Yoghurt House. Be & eat out also anywhere: Alfredo’s, Log Cabin, Cusina Igorota, Sagada Guest House, Olahbinan, Igorot Inn, Sudimay, and other small eateries.
• Establishments close @ 9pm except for St. Theodore Hospital with a pharmacy.
• Saturday is market day. Buy a lot near the Municipality Hall.
• See Sagada online-resources for other tips for an EXCITING, RELAXING & PLEASURABLE TRIP to the HIGHLANDS of MOUNTAIN PROVINCE.

• Opinions are welcome before, during and after Sagada trip!
• Exploring Sagada is team-building and one learning experience to share, discover and enjoy good life in Cordillera.

SAGADA October Surprise w/ Outreach 2011

SAGADA October Surprise w/ Outreach 2011

October 28-31, 2011 P3,300.00 inclusive of transportation, 3 days/2nights accommodation, and tour packages with tour guides and tourism fees and surprises!

ITINERARY

October 28 @ 10:00pm Assembly of joiners: Philippine Rabbit, Sta. Cruz, Manila beside the Old Odeon Theatre

FIRST DAY
7:00am Baguio Breakfast
8:00am Dangwa
12:00am Lunch in Sagada, Mountain Province
1:00pm Tourists’ Registration, St. Joseph’s Resthouse
2:00pm Sumag-ing Cave, Hanging Coffins, Burial Caves
7:00pm Souvenir Shopping/EAT OUT, Dinner/Free Time

SECOND DAY
7:00am Breakfast
8:00-12:00n Bomod-ok Falls, Sagada Terraces, A Walk Over Rice Paddies
12:00-3:00pm Lake Danum & Group Lunch
3:00-6:00pm Sagada Pottery Shop, St. Mary The Virgin Compound, Echo Valley, Calvary
7:00pm Souvenir Shopping/ EAT OUT, Dinner/Free Time

THIRD DAY
7:00am Mass/Breakfast
8:00-12:00am Bontoc Museum, Banaue Rice Terraces
9:00pm Manila

Details of Itinerary are subject to changes. PAYMENTS: deposit full payments before October 15, 2011 and is non-refundable.

LANDBANK ACCOUNT NAME:Ramos, Roderick B.
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 1987126236
DEPOSIT SLIP will serve as your official receipt.

SAGADA October Surprise w/ Outreach 2011

October 28-31, 2011 P3,300.00 inclusive of transportation, 3 days/2nights

Hurry, tourists flock and guesthouses get occuppied so fast! Reserve as early as now (non-refundable).


• The travel is open to all. Bring friends and your family! Text complete name, institution, gender and age @ 09187318010 and confirm attendance.
• Warm up and flex your muscles or exercise before the event. Join in good health.
• For Sagada cold weather during night time, wear a thick jacket/sweater, gloves, a bonnet or a cap for the head plus socks, neck protection.
• Bring your sunglass, sunblock, moisturizer, cap/umbrella, medicines; baon for 3 days and 2 nights; & extra money for food, souvenirs, etc.
• Bring water at all times.
• Bring a self-help book or a bag of periodicals/books or a box for Bomabanga National High School.
• Going to Sagada (12 hours) transforms you into a backpacker.
• Fee of 3,300 pesos is inclusive of room reservation fee, transportation, accommodation, tour packages & guide fees, tourism fees, museum fee, pottery shop w/ demo fee, day-tour van/jeep)
• Take care of your personal belongings. The tour coordinators will not be responsible for losses from Manila to Sagada, vice-versa.
ASSEMBLY
• Be at the bus station of the Philippine Rabbit @ 10pm beside the Old Odeon Theatre
• Departure is 11pm. Get enough sleep each day...

ACCOMMODATION


• Joiners’ rooms are economy rooms, either good for two or four with common bath. (Other room rates for upgrade/night: private rooms with hot/cold bath, good for 3, 1,700; 2, 1,200; 4, 2,200; cottages with hot/cold bath, good for 3, 1,700; 4, 2000; 8, 3500)
• Beddings are provided. There is an extra cost for an extra blanket.
• Bring your toiletries.
• Water in Sagada is ice cold but tolerable during shower.
• Water is scarce when there is a big number of tourists in the municipality.
• Hot water is available in the resthouse (St. Joseph’s Resthouse).
• Battery charging is allowed.

TOUR


• Wake up early, greet & say your beautiful mornings to all and eat heavy breakfast @ 7am. 7:45am tour assembly is in front of the Municipality Hall. @ 8am, all in the van/jeep and tour begins.
• Wear non-white and jeans are a no in doing spelunking (caving) in the Sumag-ing Cave (Thursday) or walking over rice paddies to Bomod-ok Falls (Friday). Be in simplest attire at all times and shorts, sandals or slippers are okay.
• All ages are admitted including kids of 4 and can go down the cave or aim also for Bomod-ok Falls for four (4) hours each.
• No step-ins down the cave. The group will be going down barefoot or barefooted. There will be pool swimming, spelunking, rapeling, etc.
• Friday walk to Bomod-ok Falls: bring food for your merienda and lunch and your swimsuit.
• Little fasting is a yes-yes! But eat fruits, bread, drink water or juice or raw vegetables with some sauce, avoid cola.
Others
• Sagada is very people-friendly. Understand dwellers’ accent.
• Listen to tourist guides and guides are accommodating. If you have inquiries, ask them.
• You may give a personal tip and be informed that a group tip is already part of your travel fees. If asking for a personal guide, provide also a personal tip. Two (2) guides for a group of 10.
• Text @ 09187318010 if you have inquiries or decide to eat and be somewhere in the municipality on top of caves
• Don’t forget to try lemon pie or blue berry pie w/ brewed coffee, or be @ the Lemon Pie House or Yoghurt House. Be & eat out also anywhere: Alfredo’s, Log Cabin, Cusina Igorota, Sagada Guest House, Olahbinan, Igorot Inn, Sudimay, and other small eateries.
• Establishments close @ 9pm except for St. Theodore Hospital with a pharmacy.
• Saturday is market day. Buy a lot near the Municipality Hall.
• See Sagada online-resources for other tips for an EXCITING, RELAXING & PLEASURABLE TRIP to the HIGHLANDS of MOUNTAIN PROVINCE.

• Opinions are welcome before, during and after Sagada trip!
• Exploring Sagada is team-building and one learning experience to share, discover and enjoy good life in Cordillera.

SAGADA Summer 2011

April 20-23, 2011 P3,050.00 inclusive of transportation, 3 days/2nights accommodation, and tour packages with tour guides and tourism fees and surprises!


ITINERARY


April 20 2011 7:00pm Assembly of joiners: Cable Tours, in front Trinity U of Asia, Rodriguez St., Q.C.

FIRST DAY
8:00am Breakfast in Bontoc, Mountain Province
9:00am Bontoc Museum
10:00am Lunch in Sagada, Mountain Province
1:00pm Tourists’ Registration, St. Joseph’s Resthouse
2:00pm Sumag-ing Cave, Hanging Coffins, Burial Caves
7:00pm Souvenir Shopping/EAT OUT, Dinner/Free Time

SECOND DAY
7:00am Breakfast
8:00-12:00n Bomod-ok Falls, Sagada Terraces, A Walk Over Rice Paddies
12:00-3:00pm Lake Danum & Group Lunch
3:00-6:00pm Sagada Pottery Shop, St. Mary The Virgin Compound, Echo Valley, Calvary
7:00pm Souvenir Shopping/ EAT OUT, Dinner/Free Time

THIRD DAY
7:00am Mass/Breakfast
8:00-12:00am Travel to Baguio
3:00pm Travel to Manila
9:00pm Manila

Details of Itinerary are subject to changes. PAYMENTS: There is a need to deposit 1,500.00 pesos as partial payment for bus seat/room reservation and is non-refundable before April:

LANDBANK ACCOUNT NAME:Ramos, Roderick B.
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 1987126236
DEPOSIT SLIP will serve as your official receipt.


Sagada Holy Week Joiners’ Trip Guidelines


HOLY WEEK: April 20-23, 2011 3 days and 2 Nights

Hurry, tourists flock and guesthouses get occuppied so fast! With your bus seat reservation, a room is reserved already. Reserve as early as now (non-refundable).


• The travel is open to all. Bring friends and your family! Text complete name, institution, gender and age @ 09187318010 and confirm attendance.
• Warm up and flex your muscles or exercise before the event. Join in good health.
• For Sagada cold weather during night time, wear a thick jacket/sweater, gloves, a bonnet or a cap for the head plus socks, neck protection.
• Bring your sunglass, sunblock, moisturizer, cap/umbrella, medicines; baon for 3 days and 2 nights; & extra money for food, souvenirs, etc.
• Bring water at all times.
• Bring a self-help book or a bag of periodicals/books or a box for Bomabanga National High School.
• Going to Sagada (12 hours) transforms you into a backpacker.
• Fee of 3,050 pesos is inclusive of room reservation fee, transportation, accommodation, tour packages & guide fees, tourism fees, museum fee, pottery shop w/ demo fee, day-tour van/jeep)
• Take care of your personal belongings. The tour coordinators will not be responsible for losses from Manila to Sagada, vice-versa.
ASSEMBLY
• Be at the bus station of the Cable Tours, in front of Trinity University of Asia (college campus), Rodriguez St., Q.C. @ 7pm for the assembly . Come earlier since traffic is heavy beginning 4pm.
• Departure is 8pm. Get enough sleep each day...

ACCOMMODATION


• Joiners’ rooms are economy rooms, either good for two or four with common bath. (Other room rates for upgrade/night: private rooms with hot/cold bath, good for 3, 1,700; 2, 1,200; 4, 2,200; cottages with hot/cold bath, good for 3, 1,700; 4, 2000; 8, 3500)
• Beddings are provided. There is an extra cost for an extra blanket.
• Bring your toiletries.
• Water in Sagada is ice cold but tolerable during shower.
• Water is scarce when there is a big number of tourists in the municipality.
• Hot water is available in the resthouse (St. Joseph’s Resthouse).
• Battery charging is allowed.

TOUR


• Wake up early, greet & say your beautiful mornings to all and eat heavy breakfast @ 7am. 7:45am tour assembly is in front of the Municipality Hall. @ 8am, all in the van/jeep and tour begins.
• Wear non-white and jeans are a no in doing spelunking (caving) in the Sumag-ing Cave (Thursday) or walking over rice paddies to Bomod-ok Falls (Friday). Be in simplest attire at all times and shorts, sandals or slippers are okay.
• All ages are admitted including kids of 4 and can go down the cave or aim also for Bomod-ok Falls for four (4) hours each.
• No step-ins down the cave. The group will be going down barefoot or barefooted. There will be pool swimming, spelunking, rapeling, etc.
• Friday walk to Bomod-ok Falls: bring food for your merienda and lunch and your swimsuit.
• Little fasting is a yes-yes! But eat fruits, bread, drink water or juice or raw vegetables with some sauce, avoid cola.
Others
• Sagada is very people-friendly. Understand dwellers’ accent.
• Listen to tourist guides and guides are accommodating. If you have inquiries, ask them.
• You may give a personal tip and be informed that a group tip is already part of your travel fees. If asking for a personal guide, provide also a personal tip. Two (2) guides for a group of 10.
• Text @ 09187318010 if you have inquiries or decide to eat and be somewhere in the municipality on top of caves
• Don’t forget to try lemon pie or blue berry pie w/ brewed coffee, or be @ the Lemon Pie House or Yoghurt House. Be & eat out also anywhere: Alfredo’s, Log Cabin, Cusina Igorota, Sagada Guest House, Olahbinan, Igorot Inn, Sudimay, and other small eateries.
• Establishments close @ 9pm except for St. Theodore Hospital with a pharmacy.
• Saturday is market day. Buy a lot near the Municipality Hall.
• See Sagada online-resources for other tips for an EXCITING, RELAXING & PLEASURABLE TRIP to the HIGHLANDS of MOUNTAIN PROVINCE.

• Opinions are welcome before, during and after Sagada trip!
• Exploring Sagada is team-building and one learning experience to share, discover and enjoy good life in Cordillera.

Sagada: PAARL Travel Advisory

• The travel is open to all. Bring friends and your family! Text complete name, institution, gender and age @ 09187318010 and confirm attendance.
• Warm up and flex your muscles or exercise before the event. Join in good health.
• For Sagada cold weather during night time, wear a thick jacket/sweater, gloves, a bonnet or a cap for the head plus socks, neck protection.
• Bring your sunglass, sunblock, moisturizer, cap/umbrella, medicines; baon for 3 days and 2 nights; & extra money for food, souvenirs, etc.
• Bring water at all times.
• Bring a self-help book or a bag of periodicals/books or a box for the outreach program of the Association.
• Going to Sagada (12 hours) transforms you into a backpacker.
• Fee of 3,200 pesos is inclusive of transportation, accommodation, tour packages & guide fees, tourism fee, museum fee, pottery shop w/ demo fee, day-tour van/jeep)
• Take care of your personal belongings. The tour coordinators will not be responsible for losses from Manila to Sagada, vice-versa.

ASSEMBLY
• Be at the bus station of the Cable Tours, in front of Trinity University of Asia (college campus), Rodriguez St., Q.C. @ 7pm (Dec. 26. Come earlier since traffic is heavy beginning 4pm.
• Departure is 8pm. Get enough sleep each day...

ACCOMMODATION
• Beddings are provided. There is an extra cost for an extra blanket.
• Bring your toiletries.
• Water in Sagada is ice cold but tolerable during shower.
• Water is scarce when there is a big number of tourists in the municipality.
• Hot water is available in the resthouse (St. Joseph’s Resthouse).
• Battery charging is allowed.

TOUR
• Wake up early, greet & say your beautiful mornings to all and eat breakfast @ 7am (Masferre Inn). 7:45am tour assembly is in front of the Municipality Hall. @ 8am, all in the van/jeep and tour begins.
• Wear non-white and jeans are a no in doing spelunking (caving) in the Sumag-ing Cave (Friday) or walking over rice paddies to Bomod-ok Falls (Saturday). Be in simplest attire at all times and shorts are okay.
• All ages are admitted including kids of 4 and can go down the cave or aim also for Bomod-ok Falls for four (4) hours each.
• No step-ins down the cave. The group will be going down barefoot or barefooted. There will be pool swimming
• Saturday walk to Bomod-ok Falls: bring food for your merienda and lunch and your swimsuit.
• Little fasting is a yes-yes! But eat fruits, bread, drink water or juice or raw vegetables with some sauce, avoid cola.

Others
• Sagada is very people-friendly. Understand dwellers’ accent.
• Listen to tourist guides and guides are accommodating. If you have inquiries, ask them.
• You may give a personal tip and be informed that a group tip is already part of your travel fees. If asking for a personal guide, provide also a personal tip. Two (2) guides for a group of 10.
• Text @ 09187318010 if you have inquiries or decide to eat and be somewhere in the municipality on top of caves
• Don’t forget to try lemon pie or blue berry pie w/ brewed coffee, or be @ the Lemon Pie House or Yoghurt House. Be & eat out also anywhere: Alfredo’s, Log Cabin, Cusina Igorota, Sagada Guest House, Olahbinan, Igorot Inn, Sudimay, and other small eateries.
• Establishments close @ 9pm except for St. Joseph Cafe and St. Theodore Hospital with a pharmacy.
• Saturday is market day. Buy a lot near the Municipality Hall.
• See Sagada online-resources for other tips for an EXCITING, RELAXING & PLEASURABLE TRIP to the HIGHLANDS of MOUNTAIN PROVINCE.

• Opinions are welcome before, during and after Sagada trip!
• Exploring Sagada is team-building and one learning experience to share, discover and enjoy good life in Cordillera.

KNOWING AND LOVING SAGADA-MENSAPIT (TRAVEL STORY)

KNOWING AND LOVING SAGADA-MENSAPIT (TRAVEL STORY)

"Beyond those traveled hills of the north Lies my home, all laden with pines... "
Sagada mornings make you high. Little did we expect that we would be greeted immensely by skies on our first day. Heavens' gates are open with a fine spray, falling in fog, flakes on skin. With its wintry breeze, cool and temperate climate, one is stimulated to kneel down, gets thick but fresh air - right to the faces - a treat, free of charge.

Sagada, a municipality of the Mountain Province, is a well-kept paradise of the Kankana-ey language group. Lavishly productive are the lands blessed with growing pine trees, plentiful fruits, and leafy vegetables. Stone paths, waterfalls, etc. -based decors of the terraces - mountains surrounding and cliffs walling villages are breathtakingly awesome.

While served with mountain tea and cinnamon, terraced ricefields are seen by the window, a main feature of the town.

"My thanks to thee, my love dressed in green; My paradise unforseen..."
Sagada allows you to feel "welcome among the friendly people here," a visiting Australian professor once commented. It is a small town offering an exceptional experience. Here, people are sociable. Ancient traditions and religious obligations have metamorphosed them into active and fascinating community to discover about.

Sagada, "a must stop" designation for tourists is home to more than 10,000 competently industrious, convincingly peace loving and confidently intelligent Sagadans.

"In you, I will give; my life, I will live; With you, I will share; all my life, without care."
Its natives speak so well of the place. This little but pleasant town is vehemently endeared in the heart of every born Sagadian. One may dwell far from it but soon he realizes an umbilical cord pulling him back to lay his "face before thy shrine." He will desire and love to embrace it back inevitably.

Numerous houses including private ones await guests with affordable meals. Electricity exists! St. Joseph's Resthouse does not only have rooms for P100, but it does have also an area for conferences, a restaurant, a souvenir store, and a big garden. Other important places to stay and eat are: Masferre Inn and Restaurant (Julia's Guest House), Alfredo's Cabin (Hotel and Restaurant), Ganduyan Inn and Coffee Shoppe, Sagada Guest House, Olahbinan (Bar and Restaurant), Greenhouse, Mapiyaaw Pension, Rocky Valley Inn, Igorot Inn (Moonhouse Cafe), Ruby's Place, A-Seven House, Yoghurt House, Shamrock Cafe, Log Cabin, Bilig Cafe, Right Turn Crafts and Cafe, Sudimay Canteen, and Cuisina Igorota (CI).

One excellent barriotic cuisine one shouldn't miss is called pinikpikan. All households prepare this with etag, a salted meat, producing a distinct aroma, soothing to your nasal and tastes differently.

Spread in the outskirts are novelty shops. The very popular Sagada Weaving & Souvenir Shop introduces a variety of wooden products from coin purses, wallets, shoulders and belt bags, caps, backpacks, and blankets. Bringing additional cash for these items is necessary to avoid personal dismay.

Northern roads are crooked, narrow, and windy. Trekking in six hours from the City of Pines to Sagada for caves is exhilaratingly a sojourn. Caves are a wonder and very enchanting. It begins when one feels being pushed by air and smells some strange odor inhaled and exhaled by underground spaces. Sounds of water dripping from nowhere in the dark tickle up imaginations. Calm creatures, black winged birds fly around, undistrubed.

A spelunker, one who makes a hobby of exploring and studying caves, or a guide is indispensable for any group aiming to unleash specific inexplicable chambers beneath surfaces of Sagada, known for being on top of a huge cave the Sumaging "Latipan" Big Cave. Spelunker Egbert Dailay, a BS Tourism undergraduate, orients adventurers on what distinguishes vertical to horizontal caves; safety rules on caving from hole passing to water plunging; and, surprises all with the naming of identifiable rock formations. Other caves including burial caves are: Sugong Cave, Crystal Cave, Balangagan Cave, Madrigal and Natividad Caves, Mataug Cave, Romeo's Cave, Matangkib and Lumiang Caves. Lamps and well-trained guides can be asked from the Tourist Information Center of the Municipality Hall.

Enormously enthralling are majestic appearances of several waterfalls. Bokong and the biggest named Bomod-ok Falls are two of the most visited. The former requires only a 15-minute walk from Poblacion, while the latter, a jeepney or a 45-minute walk to Bangaan, northern barangay of Sagada. Still, a long walk follows. Thirty minutes more down to the rice paddies offering spectacular views like amazing rice terraces as you walk by mountain trails.Thunderously from a far, the water splashes, is crystal-clear and ice-cold.

Found hanging amidst great big rocks are coffins piled one after the other. Vauntedly displayedare made of chiseled woods. Though, very indigenous, many set their dead on the cliffs as a ritual being practiced up to now.

"See them! They are sacred to us," a school grader points out. "Bringing yourself up there is an act not pleasing to us. Much more to old folks in the neighborhood."

The mysterious coffins of Sagada; whether hanging or in burial caves; accessible, like those seen inside Latang caves near the Underground River, or not, like those situated in the Echo Valley; one must learn to pay respects to remains of indigenous people who believe in the so-called afterlife.The said valley can be reached through walking over the Calvary - a cemetery for the Anglicans - in the Episcopal Mission Compound where St. Mary The VirginChurch and its high school, and Trinity College are located. Few steps away from the Calvary's big cross, paving the way as entrance, are astounding age of huge rocks.

During ceremonies, the dead is serenaded, both in the native tongue, Filipino, and English as well. Literally, an aging man talks to the spirit and recalls stories involving him and the speaker. On their seats, many do chanting, well-wishers to the spirit. Voices blend so well magically enthusing and leaving non-Kanaka-ey listeners charmed by a spell. Butchered pigs and chickens are trayed for the dead and for those who arrive and express condolences. It's a communal affair not only for distant relatives but also for everyone in the community to honorably solemnize the passing out of a fellow Igorot. This holds true also when a family attends to occasions such as gobbaw (Child dedication), dekat (wedding invitation), mangmang (housewarming), etc.

By jeepney or aone-hour walk from the town proper is the beautiful mystifying Lake Danom. It is a small lake concealing like a woman in the forest of lush greens. Hidden from view. Formidable trunks of trees cover it; but surely, outside of her world, a stranger is destined to come, to conquer her.

From her, perhaps the best sight of the sun rising and setting can be acquired. On hilltops overlooking a magnificent basin of water, a goddess sits enticing! Behold! A fertile, real, lovely lake is unravelled!

Baguio is the jumping-off place to the very rare, exquisite appeal of Sagada, Cordillera's pride and gateway to the heavens. Take a bus from Dangwa terminal available only for morning trips. Do some sightseeing while on board - and be delighted with Luzon's most precious natural wonders in the Philippines.

Why Sagada? Lifted from a 2000 souvenir program: Sagada remains a unique combination of mountains and native culture. The altitude gives that coolness and feeling of well-being, not found in the lowlands; while the abundance of sturdy pine trees enhances the beauty of the environment - an in inheritance to be proud of. There also exists an intriguing blend of Christian and traditional culture and customs that add to the appeal and friendliness of the local people. They are proud of their identity and their traditions. There remains an enviable balance between man and nature, a sense of harmony and peace, difficult to find elsewhere. (8/3/01)