How to Get to Manaoag

I received two inquiries in one day about getting to Manaoag en route to Baguio City both by public and private transportation and I tried to answer them both as best I could based on my experience in going there several times in the past.

Believe me I used to wing my way there sometimes driving all by myself through lonely provincial rough roads — but the last time I went there was about 12 years ago. I have, since 1997 gone instead to the cloistered nuns of the Convent of Mary Consolatrix in the middle of nowhere in Angin, Naguilian, La Union every time I would have some intense need for prayers to be answered. In the Philippines we call this “matinding pangangailangan” But that’s another “alternative to Manaoag” option that I will tell you about in the future.

But before I tell you that “How to Get to Manaoag” details that I actually researched on the web — because I happen to be a really helpful person — you first have to read all about the first time I went there, which explains why folks feel the need to make a pilgrimage to the out-of-the-way town of Manaoag, usually on the occasion of their trip to Baguio City.

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