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 185 km round trip from Bocos - roughly 3 h 10 in the saddle. The stops in between: Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada, Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao and back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,550 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
Read the complete Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad write-up.
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Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 50 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 93 km into the recorded legs you reach Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao. Next is back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada, late in the day. Next is Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad. That is the ride.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad → Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada is 50 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 → 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 → Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.