Philippine Travel Notes

The drive from Danao to Sagbayan also passes via another picturesque countryside of fields and hills. Yep, the ‘chocolate hills’-like mounds. As we movde on, I came to realize, it is not just in Carmen that there’s a scattering of these hills after all. They seemed to be everywhere we passed from Inabanga to Danao and now Danao to Sagbayan. Fact is, this time I came real close to many of them hills as the roads do pass by the sides of some. Very unlike at the ‘chocolate hills’ viewing deck, where you are at best half a kilometer away from the nearest hill you see (except that which the viewdeck stands on of course hehe). I like passing through some of those hills that are bare nature in themselves without (yet) any kinds of touristic developments. Just hills being used as farmlands or left as is. You can run up to those that are by the road for that rare photo-op! And so we arrived at the town of Sagbayan. First stop, the church. Hmm, is this church new? None of my companion and the 2 ...

What made the driver scratch his head? His very own stories hehe. As we forded the long causeway from Clarin’s wharf to center of town, manong trike driver told us other things to see around the area. He mentioned islands, islets and sandbars. Then he said Sagbayan Peak is just near and he sometimes brings his family there. So we told him to take us there “as in now na”! Hahaha, he hesitated, and scratching his head he said it was Good Friday… but we persisted. I even joked telling him it was his fault he told us about it so we got excited. Finally agreed! P200 for two of us passengers on the tricycle, from Clarin to Sagbayan Peak, back to Clarin and onwards home to Tubigon. Not bad! Sagbayan Peak was in my list but was planned for tomorrow when we would roam more of the northwestern and middle parts of the island circling back towards Tubigon. But here was an opportunity to peek at Sagbayan Peak, so we went for it. Ah manong driver should actually be a tour guide. He knows just where ...