The bus for the Baguio left the Edsa bus stop in manila at 12 oclock in the night on 19th march. I reached the beautiful hill station of baguio at the break of early morning ie dawn. Now I had some accommodation problem as I had little money so I wanted to have the cheapest accommodation available in baguio city.
I enquired a taxi driver about the available rented accommodation and I was fortunate to get a room in a family house in rather difficult to find house in the streets.
I entered into the room after paying 500 pesos to the house owner. As I was tired,
I took a nap a while at 7: 30 am and wake up at 12 pm . Then I went out at market place and saw some popular places of baguio.The burnfield park , the small lake and the baguio market. I ate at some small restaurent in baguio and then decided to have some short tour of the baguio city in pre paid arranged taxi. I took the taxi for three hours and used it to travel all around to see the sights worth seeing like Mines view,
The presidential palace , the PMA township, The church, The La Trinidad strawberry Fields, the ghost house, flower park etc etc. I was lucky to have been able to make a short visit to all of the places in a period of three hours. I reached the town market of the baguio after the trip at about 7:30 pm .AT that I had hit upon an Idea of going to the famous Banaue for being able to see the eighth wonder of the world -Rice terraces, so I booked a bus ticket towards .As done I boarded in to the bus which was leaving for the Banaue at 8 pm in the night. I took my sleep and took some bacon and fried egg from the stall and ate it. I slept in my bus seat and woke up at the early morning to see the beautiful town of the banaue which was covered by hills all around.
I reached banaue at 4:40 am in the morning and quickly rode on to the tricycle to reach a nice quality youth hostel nearby. The hostel had small dormitories available
For me to check in at the early hours of the morning. I slept for some hours as I was tired in the bus journey and then took my bath. The bath was refreshing but at the time of my reaching at the dorm I found noone except two people who were sleeping at the dorm . after taking my bath I then got ready with my mobile and other stuff to start my journey to banaue. I got out of the hostel and went to small shop where I took some food to have some break fast. It consisted of some rice with chicken in Filipino taste.
After the food being quickly swalled into my internal system, I walked towards the strand containing some tricyles and asked one of them to take me towards the banaue rice terraces .One of them replied that rice terraces are quite far.The rice terraces are located at batan which is some six kilometers along the hilly roads which are in bad shape and many vehicles will not be able to commute on it except the jeepney.
I booked the tricyle to go to certain places till the point it is not safe to go by tricyle.We agreed on certain rates and then I jumped on his tricycle ride and needless to add it was my first tricycle ride in the Philippines and I enjoyed it abit. It took almost forty minutes to go to the base of the hill from where the ascent is possible by walking.
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