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 270 km to Barlig; allow about 4 h 39 of riding. It goes by way of Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao, Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada and back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,550 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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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Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao comes up about 85 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.
Read the complete Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 135 km into the recorded legs you reach Rice Terrace Clusters of Kiangan: Nagacada. 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 Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera. That is the ride.
Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera → Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao → 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 → back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rice Terrace Clusters of Mayoyao: Mayoyao → Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillera is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.