Yo backpackers and tree-huggers, here’s where you can make yourself heard!
For the love of Sagada we we took a little over a month of brainstorming, planning, actual visits up the place (well d’oh!) recruitment of back-office talent to do the technicals (say w00t! to our great, great theme) to flesh out the wonder chest of information that is Visit Sagada! However, we understand that not every one of you is sold on every detail that we worked into every nook and cranny you now enjoy. Or, do you? I’ll start with a few items:
- Do you like the blog format, i.e., random subjects on each day (food/tour/lodging), with categories on the right sidebar?
- or would you prefer an index home page for VisitSagada.com where you’ll get a list of all articles under food/tour/lodging each?
- A more “web 2.0″ look please! Shiny, high-contrast gloss is the shizzle! (although I like the cleaner layout myself -ed.)
- A forum! Discussion board! Embedded IRC chatroom!
- my own me@visitsagada.com addresses powered by Google’s Gmail interface! (actually, you can get one now. Just send a quick note to jeff@visitsagada.com or benj@visitsagada.com)
IWe’re giving you the floor - what do you all want to change about Visit Sagada?
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Last year’s Philippine Blog Awards finalist for Best Blog Victor “Bikoy” Villanueva is one of the most recognizable and widely-read bloggers in the country today. His influence reaches beyond his online presence having recently been the recipient of the most number of votes in his University Student Council’s election. Aside from his forays into politics, Bikoy is also an avid traveler who documents his trips through breath-taking pictures.
Here are excerpts from his Sagada entry from four years ago:
We reached the town of Sagada in Mt. Province after an hour more on the road. The town looked really pretty, like a quaint little town nestled on the mountains.
We had lunch for an hour before hitting the road again to go to the caves of Sagada.
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Aside from VisitSagada.com, Pinoyexchange is one of the more comprehensive resource sites for people who plan on going to Sagada. The website is the largest online community in the Philippines and is also among the biggest worldwide. Pinoyexchange (or PEx for short ) boasts of a strong backpacker and traveler community for both international and local sojourns. The Sagada thread was created a few years ago and there is already over 1100 posts featuring tips, how-to’s and other relevant information regarding Sagada. Though there is arguably more information the thread, it may not be as easy to extract compared to the Visit Sagada website. Since it’s a thread, you may have to literally sift through a thousand posts to get your relevant information. At least here, you have the convenience of a well-indexed and topic-specific list of articles. But if you really want to delve deeper and do more research, PEx is definitely a resource worth looking up.
Incidentally, Pinoyexchange is instrumental to the Visit Sagada Team.
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Benj of Atheista.net returned to Sagada in May of 2006 after making the trip with his family 6 years earlier. Since then, he has been giving advice to others who are planning their Sagada vacations. This particular sojourn to Sagada inspired Benj to write numerous entries about his experiences during his stay.
Nestled in the majestic Cordillera Mountains, the sleepy mountain outpost of Sagada continues to be a conundrum. Despite not exactly being a secret a hideaway, the fifth-class municipality of less than 13,000 continues to maintain itself as a prized destination for backpackers. It has undeniably received its fair share of media exposure both locally and in foreign shores, but despite being renowned for spelunking, trekking and other nature-oriented activities, Sagada continues to be the Philippines’ answer to Shangri-La – an idyllic refuge tucked away in between the mighty monoliths of the Cordilleras… Read more at Sagada
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