Guides
Six guides from the places we walk. Every group also walks with a local guide from the village.
Arnel Bayudang
Banaue and Batad
- Speaks
- Tuwali, Ilocano, Tagalog, English
- Guiding since
- 2011
Grew up in a farming family above the Batad saddle and still plants with his cousins every year.
Liza Dulnuan
Sagada and Bontoc
- Speaks
- Kankanaey, Ilocano, Tagalog, English
- Guiding since
- 2014
Trained as a cave guide in Sagada before joining us; knows every pool in Sumaguing.
Jomar Pagtan
Mt Pulag and Benguet
- Speaks
- Ibaloi, Ilocano, English
- Guiding since
- 2016
Has led more than two hundred night climbs on the Ambangeg trail, and still stops for the stars.
Carmela Gaspar
Ilocos coast
- Speaks
- Ilocano, Tagalog, English
- Guiding since
- 2013
Studied history in Laoag and tells the story of each church from its walls up.
Rowena Valiente
Batanes
- Speaks
- Ivatan, Tagalog, English
- Guiding since
- 2015
From Ivana; reads the sea for the Sabtang crossing better than any forecast.
Benjie Alilio
The whole Cordillera
- Speaks
- Kankanaey, Tuwali, Ilocano, English
- Guiding since
- 2009
Our first guide and the one who leads the Cordillera loop. Slow walker, fast cook.
Local guides on every trip
In Batad, Sagada, Mt Pulag and Batanes, the village or the park asks every visitor to walk with a guide from there. We think that is right, and we book them for you at the rate they set. Your Talampas guide stays with you from Baguio to the end.