CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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A 390 km round trip from Barlig - roughly 6 h 43 in the saddle. On the way it passes Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad, Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada, Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao and Rice Terrace Clusters of Hungduan. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The terraces of Banaue are carved into the Cordillera mountains of northern Luzon, and the cluster at Bangaan is one of the most photographed, a tight village of thatched huts at the bottom of a steep amphitheatre of stone-walled paddies. The Ifugao people built these terraces over centuries, shaping the mountainsides with walls of stone and earth, and channelling mountain springs through bamboo pipes and canals so that water flows from one paddy to the next. Popular accounts say they are two thousand years old, but archaeologists now think most of what we see grew over the past four or five centuries. Either way, it is a monument of patient labour with hand tools, and it is a living landscape, still planted and harvested by hand.
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Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan is where the day begins. Next is Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad.
Nobody knows exactly how old the rice terraces of Ifugao are. The popular figure of two thousand years has been questioned by archaeologists, who suggest that the great walls went up more slowly and perhaps more recently, but the effort involved remains staggering. The Ifugao people shaped these steep slopes in the Cordillera mountains of northern Luzon by hand, building stone and mud retaining walls, digging channels to bring water from the forest above, and planting rice on narrow steps that climb the mountainside in tiers. Laid end to end, the walls would run for many thousands of kilometres. The terraces were listed as a World Heritage landscape in 1995, and Battad, with its rice fields arranged in a bowl like a natural amphitheatre, is one of the clusters people come to see.
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Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada.
Nagacadan is a village in Kiangan, in the province of Ifugao in northern Luzon, and its rice terraces are shaped like a vast green amphitheatre, with stone-walled steps climbing the slope in tight curves above the Ibulao river. The Ifugao rice terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras are UNESCO listed, and older guidebooks describe them as two thousand years old, though more recent research suggests that many of the surviving terraces are younger, perhaps a few centuries. What nobody doubts is the effort: dry-stone walls, bamboo irrigation pipes and generations of hand labour, all passed on without machines.
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about 109 km into the recorded legs you reach Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada. Next is Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao.
High in the mountains of northern Luzon, the hillsides are carved into thousands of rice terraces, rising in curved steps from the river to the ridge, and the Mayoyao cluster is one of five inscribed by UNESCO in 1995 as the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras. The cluster is in Ifugao province, about seven kilometres from the town of Lagawe, and the terraces here feel more intimate than those of the better-known Banaue, with the houses of the villages set among the paddies and the forest above.
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Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao, about halfway. Next is Rice Terrace Clusters of Hungduan.
Rice terraces here follow the contours of the land like the lines of a map. Hungduan, in the province of Ifugao, high in the Cordillera Central of northern Luzon, is known for terraces built in a tight, spiralling pattern that some describe as a spider's web, climbing the steep sides of the Hapao river valley. They are part of the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, which UNESCO recognised in 1995, and they were shaped, over many centuries, by Ifugao farmers working without machines, using stone walls and bamboo channels to guide water from the forest above.
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Rice Terrace Clusters of Hungduan sits at 195 km, about halfway. Next is back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao.
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back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao comes up about 239 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada.
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about 281 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada. Next is back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad.
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back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad, late in the day. Next is Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan.
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Read the complete Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan write-up.
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The route ends here after 390 km.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan → Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad → Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada → Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao → Rice Terrace Clusters of Hungduan is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Hungduan → back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao → back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada → back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad → Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.