This is my entry to the 2nd Pinoy Travel Bloggers’s Blog Carnival with the theme “Quaint towns in the Philippines” currently hosted by RV ESCAT of livinginabackpack.blogspot.com.

We entered the town of Paoay and I immediately noticed silence, like someone pressed the mute button. I checked my wrist watch to make sure it wasn’t siesta. It felt like we were entering a movie set of Shake, Rattle and Roll and I was compelled to give my friends a second look to make sure I am not not with Ana Roces, Manilyn Reynes, …

Ilocos Norte is the northernmost province in mainland Luzon. You actually get radio signals from Taiwan, that is if you’re still using a pre-historic walkman with FM band. The province got a long stretch of coastline with the terrain mainly slopes and hills. The northern tip of the province is Pagudpud, a small town covered with a crumpled blanket of hilly jungle. They even tag the Pagudpud beaches as the “Boracay of the North”.
There are buses going to Pagudpud from the city center of Laoag. Travel time is around 2 …