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, Viewpoints, Hapao, Bontoc , Mountain Province & Sagada
Bocos
Matanglag & Viewpoints
Bus Drop-off/
Pick-up Point
BANAUE
Ohayami Bus Terminal
KMS Bus Terminal
Banaue Museum
Bus Drop-off Point
Main Jeepney
Terminal
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Clickers
Hanging Bridge
Fernando's
Internet
Café
Market
Municipal
Hall
EATING & DRINKING
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POITAN VILLAGE
Museum of
Cordillera
Sculpture
ACCOMMODATION
Banaue Hotel
Banaue View Inn
Ilob Village Inn
Native Village Inn
People's Lodge and
Restaurant
Sanafe Lodge
Spring Village Inn
Uyami's Greenview Lodge
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Florida Bus
Terminal
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500
metres
Tam-an
palm trees of the south. The town itself is small and not hugely impressive, centred on
a marketplace, with a few guesthouses, some souvenir shops and a couple of good
museums
, but its location is superb. This is the heart of
rice terrace
country: the
terraces in Banaue itself are some of the most impressive and well known, and there are
hundreds of others in valleys and gorges throughout the area, most of which can be
reached on foot. There is rustic accommodation at nearby
Batad
(see p.182), so you
could stay overnight and hike back the next morning.
Museum of Cordillera Sculpture
Bissang Tam-an • Daily 8am-5pm • P100 •
T
0927 401 1484,
W
cordilleranmuseum.weebly.com • P15 tricycle ride from town
The private collection of American expat George Schenk, the wonderful
Museum of
Cordillera Sculpture
displays a fine array of Ifugao cultural objects. Highlights include
bulol rice deities - guardian figures placed in the rice paddies to protect them from
malevolent spirits and bring abundant harvests - and wooden statuettes of pregnant
wives, carved by husbands who would devoutly pray to them believing that this would
ease their spouse's pregnancy.
Banaue Museum
Poblacion • Daily 8am-5pm • P50 •
T
0916 694 4511
The family-run
Banaue Museum
houses part of the collection of American anthropologist
Henry Otley Beyer, the grandfather of the current owner. The objects were acquired from
Ifugao province and the adjoining areas, and include ceremonial necklaces, black-and-
white photographs of tattooed Ifugao ancestors, and wooden gods that were placed in
rice granaries, serving as guardians of the harvest and the fields. Don't miss the Ifugao
co
n - tradition dictates the dead had to be sealed inside and kept under the house, with
the top of the co
n serving as a bench. If the museum is closed during opening hours,
ask at the neighbouring
Banaue View Inn
for the key.
Lookout points
Tricycle P200 return
Two kilometres north of town is a series of five
lookout points
for the rice terraces,
where Ifugao elders in traditional costume hang out and ask for a small fee if you want
to take their photograph. The third lookout point has the view depicted on the P1000
banknote; you'll get the best vista from the fifth lookout.