Sagada Weaving
This shop churns out backpacks and pouches that are a good quality and have a unique Sagada style made of tough fabric.
If you walk a half kilometer or so up the road from the market you will find it just past the bakery but try to get there in the morning [...]
Green House Inn - Sagada
Far and away the best place for the budget backpacker to stay in Sagada is the Green House Inn.
Just follow the trail behind the Bamboo Grill a short ways up the hill and there is a cozy little house managed by Nora a sweet lady from Baguio.
Singles are only 180 peso [...]
Baguio Hotels
Baguio can be a stop off on the way to Sagada. Filippinos often rave about this town as the summer get away from the heat of Manila but it can be kind of expensive for backpackers.
Internet is cheap (20 pesos an hour) and Pizza Hut sells slices of pizza in front [...]
Sagada countryside
Walking around the countryside in Sagada is a pleasant way to spend the day. If you use common sense and walk on the trails and the thicker paddy dikes there will be no problem because the people that live in this area are used to tourists passing through.
The terrain is not very [...]
Here is a look around town in Sagada.
It would be good to make a trip to Sagada before it gets too built up. It is such a beautiful place and is well on it’s way to becoming a tourist mecca.
Alfredos Inn and Restaurant is right off the town square. The rooms start at 500 pesos [...]
Sagada market day
Saturday is the market day in Sagada. People come down from the hills with all kinds of vegetables and sell them in the center of town.
The local oranges don’t look good but taste great for 40 to 60 pesos a kilo. There are two varieties. One is sweet and easy to [...]
Baguio to Sagada
Lizardo Trans bus lines leave from Baguio City to Sagada every morning.
The Dangwa terminal is tucked between 2 malls across from the city market and easy to pass by if you are not alert.
The fare is 220 pesos one way and they make the return trip once a day.
The road to Sagada [...]
Sagada - Big Cave
Visitors to Sumaging Cave in Sagada wade through chest deep water to get to a large chamber surrounded by limestone formations.
Wading through the cold underground river in the Sumaging Cave in Sagada is really a neat experience. It is a good idea to bring along a pair of shorts or have a [...]
Ancestors
The hanging coffins in Sagada are not actively pushed as a tourist oddity by some of the guides because they feel that their ancestors deserve more respect than that.
Hanging Coffins in the caves of Sagada
There are dead buried in the inaccessible cliffs around Sagada. I am told they are placed there by bachelors, men who [...]
Sagada caves
There is a connecting passageway between Lumiang and Sumaging Caves in Sagada. This is a sweet 3 hour hike if you go slow and enjoy the beauty down there.
If you enter the Sumaging cave and make a detour through some winding passages you will be able to exit the Lumiang cave. We went with [...]