Monday, January 25, 2016

BUSCALAN VILLAGE, Tinglayan, Kalinga | Traversing Mountains To Meet The Last Regal - Wang-Od


BUSCALAN VILLAGE | Tinglayan, Kalinga


Buscalan Village, one of the 20 barangays in the municipality of Tinglayan in the district of Kalinga, is the humble quarter of the oldest and last long-established tattoo maker, Wang-Od. It is nestled peacefully in between supersized mountains and grass-grown valleys of Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), that surely completes an extraordinary mountaineering venture. The main challenge in getting to this sequestered paradise is its inaccessibility to any mode of transportation. From the foot of the mountain, just where the farthest point reachable by vehicle, one has to trek for almost two hours.