Sagada - The Cordilleras (Part 2)

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Rollin' Up North, Part II 
Cordillera Administrative Region
15 to 17 December 2012  
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[For Part One, click me]

Butt-numbing road trip... strawberry picking... more butt-numbing road trip... a sumptuous late lunch at Yoghurt House... a few minutes of rest... coffins within a cave... trekking... spelunking... a semi-failed effort at surprising the birthday girl-- all those things in one day.

So now, we all asked Mary when we woke up the following day, what next?

Bokong Falls

Sagada - The Cordilleras (Part I)

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Rollin' Up North, Part I 
Cordillera Administrative Region
15 to 17 December 2012
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First and foremost, this is an uber-late post; I just felt the need to document my travels now for remembrance's sake-- and maybe even for showcasing to the world the natural beauty of our Archipelago...

Or something to that effect (haha!). Nah, I'm doing this for me. I just love to travel and take pictures.

You see, I'm not like The Pinay Solo Backpacker and THE Journeying James (idol, pare!) who would brave the odds, all for the sake and the thrill of (mis?)adventures. I'm not saying that I'm not at all adventurous or unwilling to try new things (I don't mind sleeping in a hammock or an open cottage, as long as I have familiar company)... it's just, being somewhat of a comfort-oriented control-freak, my risks won't always be anything beyond my ability to calculate. Sigurista kung baga. Yung alam kong sakto lang sa kakayahan ko.

So anyway, if you are planning a low-budget trip, feel free to click on the hyperlink above for tips and tricks. These are your cheat-codes for hard-core low-cost travelling without EVER sacrificing the quality of your vacation (Sir James did a 14-Days-Trip with a budget of less than 250php/day, and an EPIC 100-day journey around the Philippine Islands too on a limited budget as well). I mean, who in their right minds would want to miss out the essential must-see, must-taste, and must-try in all those awesome places-to-be, right?

So  what about me, you ask?

I suppose I'll stick to my own thing, while I gather enough wits for soloing. ;)

Ilocos Norte

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Escapades of the Socially-Deprived
Ilocos Region
15 to 18 June 2012
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Yes, yes. I know it's been more than a year since I updated and went to this place but I've been... well, preoccupied. Better late than never, right?
 

The Groupie

Mt. Pulag

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2,922m Above Sea-level
Kabayan, Benguet
Cordillera Administrative Region
28 to 29 April 2012
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"The good thing about being a landscape photographer is that you have to seek out the landscape. You've got to be there, you've got to be present."

-- Per Bak Jensen

A friend from work and I had to arrange our schedules months before to secure 2 days rest for this trip. Both of us knew that it WILL be hell for us to go to work immediately after the climb itself so it was necessary that our bodies recuperate from the beating. And we were bloody right.

taken at the campsite