Mount Pulag
The highest peak in Luzon at 2,926 metres, famous for a sea of clouds at dawn above the dwarf bamboo. Permits and a guide are required. It is the third highest mountain in the country and the second most prominent, …
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Hanging coffins of Echo Valley
Coffins fixed to the cliff face, an Igorot burial practice still used occasionally. Visited with a local guide. People have been buried this way around Sagada for more than 2,000 years. The old carve their own coffin out of a …
Batad Rice Terraces
An amphitheatre of stone-walled terraces, part of the UNESCO listing, reached by a hike from the saddle. Batad and Bangaan are the two clusters in Banaue that the World Heritage inscription covers. People here call the Ifugao terraces the Eighth …
Burnham Park
The city's central park: a boating lagoon, a bike loop and a skating rink, laid out by Daniel Burnham in the American period. Burnham was the American architect who drew the city plan for Baguio, and the park, officially the …
Banaue Rice Terraces viewpoints
Four roadside decks above the town looking over the terraces, with Ifugao elders in traditional dress. The fields below were cut into the mountains by the ancestors of the Igorot people, by hand and with little equipment, about 1,500 metres …
Banaue Museum
A small collection of Ifugao carvings, textiles and photographs from the Beyer family.
Session Road
The main street, lined with bakeries and bookshops. It closes to cars on Sundays and fills with stalls and buskers. The road runs 1.7 kilometres through the middle of the city, six lanes wide, and on open days it carries …
Banaue Ethnic Village and Pine Forest Resort
Banaue Ethnic Village and Pine Forest Resort is on a six hectare lot in a pine forest above downtown Banaue. It has large grassy areas, picnic shelters, swimming pools, and a large function hall. This would be an ideal place …
Mines View Park
An overlook onto the old Benguet mining valley, ringed by stalls selling strawberry taho and knitted jackets. The park stands on a promontory 4 kilometres from downtown, on the northeastern edge of the city, and looks across to the mining …
Strawberry Farm, La Trinidad
Rows you can pick yourself in season, with a row of stalls selling jam, wine and taho at the gate. It is a working farm first, planted for the strawberry crop, and open to visitors alongside the picking. La Trinidad, …
Lumiang Cave
A cave that is also used as a burial site featuring hanging coffins, usually combined with a tour of Sumaguing Cave.
Sumaguing Cave
A large limestone cave descended barefoot over wet rock, often joined to Lumiang in a cave connection trip. Caving is one of the main reasons people come to the town. Register at the tourist office in Sagada Proper for a …
Bangued Cathedral
The seat of the Diocese of Bangued, facing the town plaza in Barangay Zone 6 Poblacion. Its full name is Saint James the Elder Cathedral Parish, for the saint it is dedicated to, and it is the centre of Catholic …
Saint William's Cathedral
The seat of the Roman Catholic Church in Kalinga, built in an austere modernist style with a triangular facade.
Kiltepan Viewpoint
The dawn viewpoint over a valley that fills with cloud, busiest in the dry months.
National Museum of the Philippines - Cordillera
The regional branch of the National Museum of the Philippines system, featuring artefacts on Cordilleran natural history, art, ethnography and culture.
Santa Rita Cathedral
The seat of the Roman Catholic church in Mountain Province, built in an octagonal layout with multiple towers.
Cassamata Hill National Park
The hill above Bangued, a protected park of 57 hectares climbed by a winding road or on foot by concrete stairways. From Victoria Park at the summit you look down on the town and along the whole Abra River valley, …
Tabuk Cathedral
This Roman Catholic cathedral, Tabuk Cathedral, serves the city of Tabuk, the capital of Kalinga province in the Cordillera Administrative Region.
Church of Saint Mary the Virgin
The main Episcopal church in Sagada, built in 1904 by American missionaries. The mission came after Spain ceded the Philippines to the United States in 1898 and the country opened to American Protestant missions. Its first priest, John Staunton, kept …
Nagacadan Rice Terraces
A cluster of rice terraces at Kiangan, on the UNESCO World Heritage list. The fields climb in rows up a valley that a river cuts in two, which sets this cluster apart from the others in the province. Rice is …
Sumaguing Caves
A large and extensive cave system with jagged rocks, boulders, stalactities and stalagmites.
San Jose the Husband of Mary Parish Church
The Catholic parish church at Poblacion, dedicated to Saint Joseph, the husband of Mary. It belongs to the Diocese of Baguio. In 2021 it was named one of 500 Jubilee Churches across the country for the 500 years of Christianity …
BenCab Museum
The painter Benedicto Cabrera's museum of Cordillera art and his own work, with a garden and cafe below. Cabrera, a National Artist, opened it in 2009 to hold his own collection, and he gave Cordillera indigenous art a place in …
Kiangan Shrine
The place where the highest commander of the Japanese Imperial Army surrendered. General Tomoyuki Yamashita, also called the Tiger of Malaya, gave himself up to Filipino and American forces on 2 September 1945. The old home economics building of Kiangan …
Mount Nagchajan
The site of the Japanese stronghold during the Battle of Mayoyao Ridge, riddled with caves and foxholes used as shelters. There is a small war memorial at the peak, which also offers panoramic views over Mayoyao.
Maligcong Rice Terraces
A series of rice terraces in a remote village. Views from the terraces can be seen following a hike on Mount Kupapey.
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