Why we Travel by Pico Lyer

"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves.

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed.

And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again -- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more."

We "need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what."

I like that stress on work, since never more than on the road are we shown how proportional our blessings are to the difficulty that precedes them; and I like the stress on a holiday that's "moral" since we fall into our ethical habits as easily as into our beds at night.

Few of us ever forget the connection between "travel" and "travail," and I know that I travel in large part in search of hardship -- both my own, which I want to feel, and others', which I need to see. Travel in that sense guides us toward a better balance of wisdom and compassion -- of seeing the world clearly, and yet feeling it truly. For seeing without feeling can obviously be uncaring; while feeling without seeing can be blind"

(by: Pico Lyer on Why we Travel, March 18, 2000)

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Sagada Tour

The Tour:

At the Municipal Hall and you are better of to hire a local guide from the SEGA office to assist and register the entrance / environmental fee likewise to assist you in deciding which tour to take. Perhaps you want to do the caves first or the walking tour.

Should you have arrived early in the afternoon like 2:00 pm, I suggest get your room and prepare for some caving immediately. You will probably be getting out of the caves about three (3) hours later and be ready to jump to bed.

But wait... just change your clothes and get back on your feet and have dinner at the cafe's around.The next day you can go and see other interesting sites such as the echo valley, Stone Anglican Church, shop at the Sagada Weaving, swim at the the Bokong Falls that drains to the underground river and if you want some more then have a sunset view at the Bana (Danum) Lake.

If you have chosen camping, you may go ahead to a camping destination and set up camp already and (depending where you camped...get to see the whole Sagada Town) and then do the above-mentioned the next days.

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