In Baguio, there is a bus stop solely for Sagada and Bontoc. The trip is six hours long. So from Manila-Sagada, it takes about 12 hours of land travel one-way! The bus fee from Baguio to Sagada is P 236 pesos ($6).
Half-way thru the trip, one stops at Morning Star where travellers are given around 2o minutes to grab their lunch. We ate Chicken Adobo and Pinapaitan around P180 ($4). This is not a gourmet or stylish restaurant but for our growling stomachs, this place would suffice.
Snacks and drinks are also available at the bus stop. This is also where you take time to relieve nature's call. Get ready for P3-5 coins to use the comfort rooms. Some foreigners have to ask our bus conductor for some coins because they didn't bring any. And when you travel with a group, one hates waiting because they are still in the CR! Hehe.
After the long, tedius, sometimes bumpy ride, seeing nature at work is priceless! BTW, the bus has no airconditioner but since we are up in the mountains, the breezy cold fresh air is God-sent :)
In Baguio, there is a bus stop solely for Sagada and Bontoc. The trip is six hours long. So from Manila-Sagada, it takes about 12 hours of land travel one-way! The bus fee from Baguio to Sagada is P 236 pesos ($6).
Snacks and drinks are also available at the bus stop. This is also where you take time to relieve nature's call. Get ready for P3-5 coins to use the comfort rooms. Some foreigners have to ask our bus conductor for some coins because they didn't bring any. And when you travel with a group, one hates waiting because they are still in the CR! Hehe. 
Waking up at 5am, I walked around the St. Mary's Episcopal Church and saw these blue skies.
Around late afternoon, I stopped by the cemetery to explore :)
A basketball court greeted me on my arrival at Sagada.
Baguio City has become decongested with flyovers and buildings all in the name of modernization. I miss the old Baguio. My family regularly hides off to the City Of Pines for the cool weather and fresh strawberries. This time I came with a friend. Our main goal is to visit Sagada which is a six-hour bus ride from Baguio. (From Manila to Baguio, travel time is also six hours).
Since it was such a short visit because we had to get ready early in the morning to catch a bus to Sagada, I just walked at the Our Lady of Lourdes grotto and chilled at the Session Road for dessert.
I realized that I was getting old because climbing to the grotto made me stop several times to catch my breath.
In the afternoon, the fog slowly crept in the city making it visibly hard to see the area---good thing to lessen the eyesore of modernization :) 
