Return to Sagada

By John Silva
Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines–You have to psych yourself for the six-hour bus ride from Baguio to the northern mountaintop town of Sagada.

But, on the road, you don’t figure the added time for the stalled jeep laden with vegetables blocking the road. Or the bus having a flat tire. Or that it wouldn’t start after a pit stop. Or the bus screeching to a halt because of a landslide before it.

We got off the bus and in freezing rain climbed the muddy mound about two-stories high, to slip and slide down the other side to wait for another bus.

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