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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From Barlig it runs 447 km to Barlig; allow about 7 h 42 of riding. The stops in between: Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao, Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera, Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada and back through Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,550 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.
Read the complete Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan write-up.
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Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao write-up.
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Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao comes up about 90 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera.
People say the rice terraces of the Ifugao are two thousand years old, though archaeologists now think the oldest of them may be a few centuries old, and either way the thing remains astonishing. Up in the Cordillera mountains of northern Luzon, the Ifugao people shaped whole mountainsides into stairways of stone-walled paddies, fed by bamboo pipes and channels bringing water from the forest above. If the terraces were laid end to end, it is said, they would circle half the globe. They were built by hand, without machines, and they are still farmed by hand, with rice planted in the rains and harvested once a year. UNESCO listed them in 1995, and they remain one of the country's best-known cultural landscapes.
Read the complete Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera write-up.
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about 155 km into the recorded legs you reach Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera. 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.
Read the complete Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada write-up.
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Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada, about halfway. Next is back through Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera.
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Read the complete Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera write-up.
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back through Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera sits at 299 km, about halfway. Next is back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao comes up about 357 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan closes the day.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan → Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao → Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera → Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada → back through Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera → back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao → Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.