trip to pagudpud..

Pagudpud is a big place to visit if you're longing for the comparatively perfect charms of the Philippines. Pagudpud is a wide and lovely town on the northwest tip of Ilocos Norte, Luzon, bounded to the south by the town of Bangui and to the east by the Cordillera Mountain Range, the town of Adams and the province of Cagayan. The South China Sea lies to the west and north.

It is noted as the largest island in the Philippines. The hills and mountains are luxuriant, the valleys productive. It is 45 miles north of Laoag City, the provincial capital, and about 350 miles north of Manila -- about the identical distance between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. Creeks, streams and waterfalls splash the landscape and spill into the South China Sea. All around, the ocean and sky are awash in varying shades of blue.