Cordillera Mountain Range on Mountain Bike

We will bike Baguio’s Yellow Trail or other trails nearby. Yellow Trail is short but technical. It can be ridden in two hours. Most part of it is single tracks with lots of roots of pine trees. However, if Yellow Trail is not available for us, we will ride other trails nearby. The trails in Benguet is composed of dirt road, single tracks, and pavements. There are long uphills and downhills.

Travel time from Baguio to Sagada is approximately 4 hours by land. We will be biking the backdoor trail up to Sagada’s town proper. The distance is 10 to 12 kilometers uphill. Along the way, we will visit a cave which is popular in Sagada a traditional burial site. Sagada’s ancient people bury their dead relatives in caves in a wooden coffin. Also, we will be seeing the Hanging Coffin of Sagada.

We will have our lunch in the town proper. After lunch we will bike to Kiltepan Rice Terraces which is 8 kilometers away from the town proper. We will take the rough road to Kiltepan and then back to Sagada town proper.

Today, we will have more of Sagada’s trails. We will ride the Marlboro Trail in the morning and Pilao ridge in the afternoon. Total riding distance is around 30 kilometers from and back to your hotel.

We will leave Sagada early in the morning for Tinglayan, Kalinga Province. We will be biking most of the time on paved roads. Although it is mostly road, it is one of the most scenic ride in this tour with several rice terraces, mountains and rivers. Distance from Sagada to Tinglayan is 60kms.

Buscalan is the home of the oldest traditional tattoo artist in the Philippines. Her name is Fang Od. If you want to get a tattoo or a huge fan of tattoos, then you came to the right place. There is, however, a 40-minute trek to the small village of Buscalan. And since, this part of the route is not doable by bike, we arrange several porters that will carry our bikes to the next village, known as Butbut. From Butbut, we will bike down to Tinglayan. Butbut is only accessible by motorbike, mountain bikes, and 4×4 vehicles. Don’t forget to take pictures because this ride is very scenic. Buscalan and Butbut are situated higher that Tinglayan so it is colder there and has thinner air. In the afternoon, we will have to leave your hotel for Tabuk City. The purpose of doing this is to get you closer to the airport in Tuguegarao City.

We will now head to Tuguegarao Airport. Travel time from your hotel is 1.5 to 2 hours. Today is a no-biking day because we have to leave early and catch your flight back to Manila.