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TRAVEL TO SAGADA THE RESPONSIBLE WAY!

Keep those trolley bags and bring out your backpacks for a few days of rich cultural adventure. Hike through villages and rice terraces. Swim by the falls and be at awe with natural beauty while spelunking inside the caves. Get to know locals during bonfires and treks. Drink the local wine. Walk under the sun while enjoying the cool breeze of Sagada

Meditate. Reflect. Be one with nature.
SAGADA is where you will learn how to truly become a Responsible Traveler

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TIPS AND REMINDERS BEFORE THE TRIP

Choose a date for your trip that doesn’t fall on a holiday or a long weekend.
Sagada is best experienced with less tourists and more locals. That way, you will not be challenged reserving for a hostel and getting a place to eat. The best vacations are those spent with yourself, a few friends, or family and not with 5,000 other tourists. It may be difficult to choose a date without including the weekend but if you really want to have that perfect vacation, you have to MAKE TIME and PLAN for it.

Research on Sagada’s culture and history before doing the trip.

Getting to know a little about places and its people will prepare you how to act, dress, and speak in a place different from yours. There are certain rules that must be followed to avoid offensive encounters with locals. Wearing scanty clothes are offensive to locals especially the elders, so please dress appropriately. Caves and mountains are sacred burial places so treat it with utmost respect by not shouting or singing out loud inside. Know and be aware of Sagada’s indigenous practices and beliefs and use this to better understand the people and their culture. Learning a new culture will make you a better person.

Take the bus!

Imagine 5,000 other tourists thinking of bringing their private vehicles or joining a van full of joiners through travel agencies in a place where there are narrow roads and limited parking areas. Sagada is just a small town that cannot accommodate so many vehicles.

There are 2 ways to get to Sagada by bus:

CODA Bus Lines: Manila to Sagada
You can book your tickets with CODA Lines through their website www.codalinesph.com or you can call them at 09275592197.
Quezon City – Sagada 8pm / 9pm / 10pm
Sagada – Quezon City 10:30am / 2pm / 3pm / 4pm
Victory Liner and Lizardo Bus Lines: Manila to Baguio to Sagada

*No reservation

Take local shuttles to go around.

If you are physically disabled or with a group of senior citizens who cannot do long walks or treks, you can hire jeepneys through the Tourist Information Center to bring you around. If you are alone, it will be a good opportunity to join other travelers and share the ride. It will be nice to meet new friends. Hiring local jeepneys bring income to drivers and their families.

Walk and enjoy the sun and cool breeze.

Sagada has been known as a walking town. Visitors used to walk and enjoy the landscapes and the different local scenes along the way. Walking to the caves or even just around the beautiful Mission Compound is a meditation and an experience of Sagada. The walks may be long but the scenes are breathtaking with its cool pine scented breeze. Make sure you don’t miss this part of the trip.

Buy local and discover new flavors and creative souvenirs produced by farmers and the community.
Visit farms or do your marketing during the Saturday Market Day in Sagada. The freshest produce you’ll get at prices that will directly help farmers and local vendors. Eat at restaurants and order local dishes like Pinikpikan with their smoked meat called Etag. Walk around and you can find yoghurts and lemon pies made by small entrepreneurs. Get unique souvenirs that express their local culture. Make sure they’re made from Sagada so you are assured that you are supporting local creative industries.

Bring a water tumbler or save your water bottle for re-use.
Make sure to bring your favorite tumbler for your water refill everyday! There are several establishments that will refill your drinking bottle for a small fee. If your tumbler can keep hot liquids, you can refill it with Sagada’s local brewed coffee or mountain tea and have it while you sit on the grass enjoying the sights.

Always remember that you are a visitor.
Being a visitor in Sagada means understanding what the locals can only offer and not demanding your own personal needs. Remember that you are a visitor and not a local resident. Ask and never demand. Sagada is a small town with limited water resources and may not be able to supply all the needs of visitors from the big cities. When you use water for bathing more than once a day, it also means taking some water from the villages for their daily use.

Ask a local guide and take the roads less traveled.
Sagada is known as the mecca of cave spelunking in Luzon. Tourists visit this place to try out being adventurous and ticking items from their bucket list. The most popular site is the Sumaguing cave also known as the big cave. During peak seasons, there could be 200 tourists at a time going inside the cave. So if there are 5 batches of tourists going in, that would be a total of 1,000 tourists per day and a total of 3,000 tourists during a long weekend of 3 days. Sagada offers so many places to see and explore. You can be adventurous by hiking through villages and crossing through breathtaking rice paddies. Ask a local guide and they can give you more than a hundred ways how to enjoy Sagada.

Join the Sagada Package Tours.
Plan your own itinerary for your trip and join these package tours designed and managed by the local guides of Sagada. If you’re a solo traveler or just traveling with a few friends or family, you can choose from among these tours and pay on a per person basis. These tours are meant for small groups who are on a budget but would still like to experience Sagada’s beautiful sites while ensuring that locals directly benefit from their travels.

Responsible Tourism

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Responsible Tourism Guidelines

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