World's Oldest Tattoo Artist

Опубликовано: 22 Май 2024
на канале: Kayli King - fastfamvan

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More details, costs, and ways to get there ✨👇🏼

Apo Whang-Od is currently 107 years old. Her traditional methods of tattooing include using a bamboo stick with a thorn, a charcoal mixture, and another stick to tap the thorn into the skin. She now only tattoos her signature three dots onto anyone travels to see her. The three dots represent Whang-Od and her two apprentice grandnieces.

The travel to Buscalan is not the easiest journey. There are many different ways to get there. If you want to take more of a scenic route you can begin in Manila and stop in places like Sagada, Banaue, and Batad. That’s what I did and highly recommend if you have the time! If you’re shorter on time you can take a direct bus from Manila. Either way, once you get to Batad or Tabuk you can take a jeepeny to the Buscalan turning point and then you take a trike to the base of the village. Then you take the final hike up into the village.

Now for costs 💰

Transportation will range depending on what route you take. From Manila to Clark to Baguio City to Sagada to Batad to Banauet to Batad to Buscalan it cost me about $70 (including extra transport within some of those towns)

The Buscalan tour guide fee for a group of 1-5 people is 1000 php for the day or 1500 php for an overnight tour. The homestay cost is then an additional 400 php/pax. Registration fee is 100 php/pax and your individual needle is 100 php. The cost of the tattoo from Whang-Od is 300 php. My second tattoo was 1200 php. I ended up paying a total of 2850 php or approx $50 for those costs.

It sounds like arriving to the village and getting tattooed by Whang-Od so quickly is rare. Usually people report having to wait around to be seen, sometimes having to wait until the next day. Weekends are also very chaotic as the village fills up very fast.

I feel so grateful to have been able to meet and get tattooed by such a living legend. The whole experience was absolutely incredible. Seeing the culture of the village and being welcomed into their homes is unlike anything I’ve be apart of before. More than thrilled to have this ink on me for the rest of my life.

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