Whistle-stop tour of Northern Luzon part 1

As I was off school for the Easter holidays I decided to join some friends on a road trip of Northern Luzon. Rachael and Andy White were the designated (and awesome) drivers of a car named 'Hungis'. Hungis apparently refers to someone or something that is greedy. This is Kiwispeak of course. Hungis was named this due to his prior greedy nature with petrol, but actually turned out to be a bit of a legend. He took through busy roads, over mountains with gravel for roads that lots of people thought he could't take. Those people were wrong. He even made it through a river!

Liz and I took our roles as back seat drivers very seriously of course. We made playlists on our ipods, handed out snacks, got crumbs all over the seats and gave great driving advice which I'm sure Rachael and Andy really appreciated.

We headed off on Saturday morning early and set off towards Baguio. On the way there we passed this crazy place with massive Buddha sculptures outside so we stopped to have a look. It was a massive restaurant, with fish ponds and statues everywhere. Very random. The customers sat in little nippa huts and the chefs came to bbq meat outside their huts. Here are some pictures:

This Buddha statue was MASSIVE.

These sheep were attached to little carts. They looked like they were designed to pull children around.

I actually felt pretty guilty taking these pictures of the sheep as they looked so miserable.

Big Buddha heads.

Buddha ladies.

This was a very bizarre part of this restaurant complex. Basically, you pay money to release your anger and frustration by smashing plates. They didn't want you to swear though.

They have painted lots of causes for anger on the wall for you to aim at.

On another part of the complex the smashed plates were piled up in a huge heap.

Not sure what they do with these broken plates but it seemed wasteful.

This is Andy, Liz, Erap (Joseph Estrada - former ousted president who is currently running for office again) and Rachael.

This was a really bizarre and gross statue. It was a chef figure that was just outside the kitchen. It appeared as if it was peeing but everything was covered by a real apron. When Liz lifted up the apron, the chef statue was actually holding it's willy!!

Giant random Buddha hand.

More huge Buddhas.

Hair plaiting.

Crazy bike made from taps.

This monkey was advertising a game customers could compete in. If the managed to stand in front of monkey fountains without getting wet received a free kilo of fish for the chef to cook.

More road trip pictures to come.