With Sagada, the next place on our itinerary, being about 60km away as the crow flies, one might have anticipated a journey of a couple of hours to get there. However, with the road infrastructure being what it is, we had to travel closer to 300km, first heading south to overnight in the town of Baguio before heading north again. Baguio's elevation is about 1,400m so, in the misty Cordillera mountains, we were able to escape some of the heat and humidity of the lowlands, but it wasn't an enormously inspiring place. The last 45 minutes of our bus journey from Vigan were spent in a slowly creeping traffic jam in a downpour, and when I ventured out for dinner it seemed as though all the pavements were similarly congested. Accommodation was the worst value yet,
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