Banaue to Sagada Road Impassable Due to Landslide, Driving towards Pagudpud via Isabela
We cut short our stay at the Travellers Inn in Hapao. The road is wet, muddy, unfinished, narrow. We decided to go back to Banaue and just stay there overnight. Found out later on that our planned trip to Sagada will now have to be cancelled due to a landslide that makes our route impassable. We were thinking of passing through sagada, on to the Cervantes road and into Ilocos Sur then up to Pagudpud.
Change of plans. This morning, we went down from the Banaue Hotel to the Tam-An village where we mingled with the Ifugao and shopped. Then at 10 am we set off for Tuguegarao. Nice 2 way “highway”, must overtake the pesky slow motorbikes, tricylcles, jeeps and carabaos.
Gosh, Isabela hills are all shamelessly nude. Seems logging to everything, every single tree. It’s so boring in this route.
Saw a lot of mono culture fields of crops, some cows, some carabaos, some goats.
We finally arrived in Tuguegarao. Billeted ourselves in a nice hotel with closed garage. Heard carnapping was pretty rampant in this city.
First thing in the morning tomorrow and we are off to Pagudpud.