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Day Two
Get up for an early breakfast. Jas wanted to take a splash in one of the pools before leaving. After a shower, a few more pictures and checkout of the hotel, we're off to the next destination: Sagada. The 175 Km takes almost 5 hours. The first 60 Km takes almost an hour and runs along the coast up to Tagudin. From there on it winds up and down the mountains of Ilocas Sur and Mountain province. The slideshow shines a eye on the timeline of this route. Many shots are from the car passenger window while driving. The roads are narrow with only a few places where parking the car off the road is possible. Move the pointer over picture to control the slider. Some images have shortcut to internet pages, click to open.
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History od Sagada
Legend has: Biag, the founder of Sagada, bothered by the dangers posed by headhunting enemies and the destruction caused by wild pigs on his kaingins, left the mountains together with the families of his brothers and sisters and found themselves settling somewhere in Candon, Ilocos Sur. Wary of attempts by Spaniards to have them baptized with Spanish surnames, he left Candon together with his family and moved back to a place further west. Later he started back to the mountains until he finally came to what is now Sagada. Biag brought with him a cultural background, enriched by his experiences from “Loco”, the Igorot name for the lowland coast, into this land “Golot”, the name Igorots gave their place of origin.
Deducing from the facts surrounding the story of Biag, Sagada came about in the 1830’s. This was about the time Governor Claveria was enforcing the giving of Spanish surnames to the Filipinos. Biag instituted a ground religious festival that took place every ten years wherein the dried tails of pigs sacrificed for the occasion were kept in a basket knapsack of Biag which had been preserved to the present. The period of Biag could be established by the count of the tails.
The name Sagada came about when a group of Spanish soldiers coming from Besao met a man near Danum Lake who was carrying a bamboo basket for catching fish. The soldiers asked the man what the name of next place was. Thinking that they were asking what he was carrying, the man answered, “sagada”. From then on the settlement of Biag went down on Spanish record as Sagada.
The municipality is composed of nineteen barangays. These barangays are Aguid, Ambasing, Ankileng, Antadao, Ballugan, Banga-an, Dagdag, Demang, Fidelisan, Kilong, Madongo, Nacagang, Pide, Poblacion, Suyo, Taccong, Tanulong, Tetepan Norte and Tetepan Sur.
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