Road Trip to Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur Escapade in the Philippines

A highway journey to Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur: Wealthy in Tradition, Traditions and Life-style.

Our journey started at Quezon City, one of many cities that make up the Metro Manila.

We determined to journey on our personal with our non-public car and to make use of details about the locations we have been planning to go to by way of the net. We even used Google maps on attain our vacation spot and it was really correct.

It’s not that tough attending to these provinces since we traveled on primary highways, apart from some harmful curves on the mountain highway.

Drive Safely!

Subsequent Cease: The Metropolis of Vigan

Vigan is the capital of the Province of Ilocos Sur, a World Heritage Website because it is without doubt one of the few Hispanic cities left within the Philippines. There are resorts and different lodging in and across the space; up to date and conventional eating places. After all, go for the normal! 

So our plan was to search for lodging since we have been planning to remain the evening in Vigan. The journey time took 8 hours together with stops to have a relaxation and to eat our packed lunch. We left Quezon Metropolis at round 6:00 am and arrived to Vigan at round 2:00 pm.

We searched in superior for good locations to remain the evening in Vigan and determined to remain in Villa Angela, because it had optimistic evaluations and affordable charges. Sadly it has only a few rooms and there have been no vacant rooms once we acquired there. Don’t fear you may make reservations! We simply ignored. 🙁

So we determined to search for different resorts and located Casa Rica Hotel, a boutique resort not removed from Villa Angela. A extremely good place! You can really feel the conventional life model! Surprisingly we have been the one visitors to examine within the resort, no worries! Was really enjoyable as a result of we felt prefer it was our relaxation home! 🙂 They have been very accommodating, informative and included breakfast. Good service and situated lower than 5 minutes drive from the Heritage Village.

It isn’t laborious to search out the vacationer spots in Vigan. Simply across the Heritage Village (which is the principle attraction) are plazas, outdated cathedrals, church buildings, and museums (donation payment: any quantity, others costing solely from 20 to 50 pesos).

You’ll be able to stroll or journey the kalesa, it would take you to 7 to eight completely different locations, however you’ll be able to request to not go to a few of them in case you have visited already. After all it would take you multiple hour to make the whole tour since throughout that point you’ll take footage inside museums, climb up a bell tower and different stuff. So be prepared! 🙂 

We ate at Cafe Leona for dinner, there’s all kinds of native to fashionable dishes. Once more, LOCAL! 🙂 Within the menu are their should strive native dishes. We ordered llocos longganisa, Pinakbet Pizza, Chopseuy, and Plain Rice. Good good good! Good service too! Then again to our resort for evening sleep. 🙂 

Then we took off to Laoag, Ilocos Norte at round 11:00 am

Vigan to Laoag will take 1 hour and half-hour.

Laoag, Ilocos Norte

We arrived to Laoag at round 12:30 pm and headed to the Marcos Museum and Mausoleum (Open day by day, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm) We waited for 30 minutes for the registration. It’s a spot to study lots about Ferdinand E. Marcos, president of the Philippines for 20 lengthy years, his energy, success, riches and…extra riches…..and extra riches….and increasingly more and extra…. riches. His embalmed physique within the mausoleum regarded like a wax reproduction to us. 

From there we headed to Malacañang of the North and Paoay Lake which took us half-hour to reach (Tuesday – Sunday 9:00 am to 11:30 am and 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm). Additionally known as the Malacanang ti Amianan, was the place the place the previous President Marcos resided together with his entire household, had a golf course and the Paoay Lake in the back of the home the place they performed water sports activities. 

Wow! Life-style of wealthy and well-known!

Since we have been out of time, we determined to not go to La Paz Sand Dunes however we actually suggest going test it out! We couldn’t make it to our deliberate lunch out since we have been going to the Bangui Windmills and to the seashores in Pagudpud, the place we didn’t know the place we’d keep the evening. The unique plan was to eat lunch at Saramsam YlocanoRestaurant or La Preciosa Restaurant. Strive them out! They’re situated within the metropolis and are close to one another. Very Handy!

We headed off to Pagudpud, which took us one other hour and half-hour.

Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte  

Earlier than reaching Pagudpud, we went to the Bangui Windmills. You’ll be able to go down these sharp curves of the mountain roads for a more in-depth look. They’re really gigantic windmills that generate electrical energy.  It isn’t laborious in search of a Seashore Resort or any lodging in Pagudpud, there are many selections from resorts to lodges.

We determined to remain in Terra Rika Beach Hotel, which is an “okay” resort. I recommend you check out Hannah’s Beach Resort, which has lot of actions. You’ll have to drive one other 20 kilometers, which is why we determined to not go to since we have been drained. 🙂  

ENJOY THE BEACH! Good meals in every single place! Very good individuals!