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: producer-declared routed record.
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A 149 km round trip from Barlig - roughly 4 h 31 in the saddle. The stops in between: Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad, Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada and back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad. 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 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 42 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 67 km into the recorded legs you reach Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada. Next is back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad write-up.
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back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad, late in the day. 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.
Back at Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan. That is the ride.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan → Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad is 42 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 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada → back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad is 39 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 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.