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 583 km round trip from Monamon - roughly 13 h 29 in the saddle. The stops in between: Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan, Church of La Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion and back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Rice Terrace Clusters of Hungduan write-up.
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Rice Terrace Clusters of Hungduan is where the day begins. Next is Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan.
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 comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of La Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion.
Santa Maria is the church that makes you earn the view. It stands on a hill above the town of the same name in Ilocos Sur, and reaching it means climbing an imposing stone staircase of about eighty steps, flanked by walls, which opens onto a broad, open terrace. The church was built in the eighteenth century by Augustinian friars, and it looks more like a fortress than a house of prayer, with a long, plain, buttressed brick facade and a separate bell tower standing on the hill's edge. Walls surround the whole complex, because during the colonial period a church could also be a refuge and a stronghold. It is one of the four Philippine churches in the UNESCO group of Baroque Churches.
Read the complete Church of La Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion write-up.
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about 291 km into the recorded legs you reach Church of La Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion. Next is back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan write-up.
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back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan, late in the day. Next is Rice Terrace Clusters of Hungduan.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rice Terrace Clusters of Hungduan write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Rice Terrace Clusters of Hungduan. That is the ride.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Hungduan → Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan → Church of La Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion is 219 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Church of La Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion → back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan is 218 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Bangaan → Rice Terrace Clusters of Hungduan is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.