Day 18

Laundry day! Then we went to get emails and to check on several websites for our planned trip to Palawan. There seem to be only one wifi connection here in Sagada and the connection is best at the foot of the steps going to St. Joseph Guest House.
We had fried rice with veggies for lunch. Breakfast was all fruits. After nap, we went for a long, long walk to the nearby village, Barrio Sagada, still part of Sagada, but has its own local government. Ole thinks this is where he stayed for a week when he came here in 1982.

Dinner is pan de sal and papaya for Maitri and a liter of beer for Ole.

12:15 still up. Ole fast asleep. Heard outside approaching loud voice or voices which escalated and then running footsteps while shouting. Sounded like drunks. Based on cases and cases of beer found in stores, there’s a lot of drinking going on in this otherwise peaceful little village. The commotion caused the dogs to bark loudly.
There’s so many dogs around, maybe several hundreds. Last Wednesday on the way to Bontoc, the jeepney we were in hit a dog and no one seemed perturbed, except me (Ole was riding on the top). I couldn’t really understand the local dialect, but I caught the comment of turning the dog into “pulutan”, any meat eaten while drinking alcoholic beverage. And the guy who said that was laughing. There’s a restaurant here that serves dog meat. We also saw pigs on their way to be slaughtered and chickens torched (!) to burn the feathers. I remember the old way was to dip the dead chicken in a bath of boiling water to soften the feathers. Ugh! A kilo of meat is PHP130.