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We left on Thursday (29th) evening at 10pm. We left the house at 5pm to ride a jeepney, bus, jeepney to meet Auntie Marissa in Makati and watch the beautiful Christmas light show and have dinner (pizza & pork bbq and rice cake) in an outdoor market before getting another bus to the coach that would take us to Banaue.
After 10 1/2 hours we arrived on Friday morning at our home for the weekend a place called Las Vegas that had incredible views out of its back windows of rice terraces. The lodge was decorated with lots of local crafts; wooden carvings and woven tapestries. The rooms were very basic and the washing facilities were not very nice but the hospitality was good and the food was yummy.
Once we had a nap we explored downtown Banaue and went for lunch at a restaurant in town. We tried rice wine, which tasted like sweet vinegar I could only sip it!
We walked around the small town, saw the church, school and walked along the hanging bridge, the valley below us it felt very unstable.
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