Northern tour - last stop Banaue

Banaue is rice terrace paradise, and really worth its status as a Unesco World Heritage site. It is amazing.

 Approaching Banaue from Sagada.

 Hana: "He looks like daddy!"
(is that me in the background then?)

 Getting closer.

We stayed at the rustic but really nice Native Village Inn, a lovely place with the most amazing views, like this one from our favourite UNO spot.

And, yes, apart from hiking around the rice terraces, we did play quite a bit of UNO. Hana without doubt the game queen of the week.


Rice terraces were high and steep and gave us more of a Macchu Picchu than Sapa feel, if you ever should compare places...

Traveling around, local style, what else.

And yes, Banaue for sure deserves its star as a Northern Philippines highlight. I hope we will be back - once we have forgotten that the place is an 11 hour drive from Manila (in our car, not the tricycle, always something).