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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From Monamon it runs 183 km to Monamon; allow about 4 h 56 of riding. It goes by way of Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao, Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad and back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 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 49 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad write-up.
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about 90 km into the recorded legs you reach Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad. 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, 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 Mayoyao: Mayoyao is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao → Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Banaue: Battad → 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 → Rice Terrace Clusters of Hungduan is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.