Ate Weng Sicat, the local DOT Officer, showed this one of a kind zipline-like ride in Hungduan.
Hungduan Tramline
It is operated by an engine that push and pulls the ride and could carry a weight of 200kg from one mountain side to the other.
Engine that controls the tramline
Tramline Wire
Excitedly, I asked Ate Weng if I could ride, then I got this look telling me that I could not ride the tramline. She then explained that the tramline is NOT FOR PEOPLE TO RIDE, but to help the locals to transport palay and other produce from one mountain to the other. Before, the agricultural produce were being carried for more than a kilometer to get to the road to be loaded in trucks/jeepneys.
This is an ingenious project of the Department of Agriculture to help the people of Hungduan. It is a bit distracting when you’re in the viewpoint of the Hungduan/Hapao Rice Terraces.
I do hope that the farmers do not have to pay a large amount of money when they use it.
The other mountain
GOOD JOB ON THE AGRICULTURAL TRAMLINES! 🙂
looks interesting.. i wanna try this… woooohhh!!!!!
ey Pinoy Adventurista, if you happen to read the whole blog post the tramline is strictly NOT for people. They are maintaining it as an Agricultural Tramline where only the land produce will be transported from one mountain to the other.
I hope there are also tramlines that can be used to transport people for emergency cases, in that way, we can get away with the ambulansya de paa that I saw once in Batad, Banaue.
I think for emergency cases pwede na gamitin yung agricultural tramline para itransport yung mga injured and accompanying na tao. Hopefully magawan na rin nila ng ganito ang Batad.
galing!
teka, ang ganda pala sa hungduan… wrong decision not to join the trail run.
dibali james, may next year pa. 🙂
this is what ive been wishing when I went to batad, sana may giant slide o cable ride from tappiya falls to town. haha easy di ba?
too bad pang gamit lang pala yan, bawal sa tao. tama din naman, mawawala beauty ng place kung effortless na yan puntahan.
I agree! The most beautiful places I’ve been are the places that are hard to go to and those that are kept away from “development”.
Ingenius! Pero onga sarap sana sumakay hahaha!
oo nga. dibali, para naman sa ikabubuti nila. 😀