Subic to Anvaya and back
November 2, 2008 
I used to think that biking in the Philippines couldn’t possibly compare to biking in Europe - how could we compete with the cool weather, snow-capped peaks, brilliant blue lakes, and pine-forested mountains, plus the excellent food that you can grab along the way? And there are the traffic-clogged roads.. But the reality is that if one bikes between the months of November and February, you generally get good cloud cover, and on January-mid March, you get good strong winds, that make it possible to bike the whole day without breaking into a sweat. My favorite rides so far have been the stretch along Marcos highway from Boso-boso to Tanay (a really beautiful road, with very little vehicular traffic, and climbs up to 3000 feet - you even get a glimpse of pine-covered hills, and the blue Laguna de Bay), the road from Sierra Madre Hotel (still on the Marcos highway), all the way down to Tanay/Sampaloc junction, then past Erap’s resthouse all the way to Infanta (this is currently an unfinished highway with zero traffic. - I’ve actually biked here with my then 10 yr old and 8 yr old son), the climb from Pililia up to Bugarin (which spectacular views of Laguna de Bay), and the climb from Pagsanjan up to Lucban.
