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Slideshow (51 photos) |
| Central Cordillera (Philippines) (map) |
| Banaue |
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View of fish stand, laundry, and woman with child, taken from the top of the jeepney as we passed through the town of Banaue on our way to Batad |
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View of a sea of tricycles taken from the top of the jeepney as we passed through the town of Banaue on our way to Batad |
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Have scotch will travel -- this is the jeepney we hired to travel from Banaue to Sagada |
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Driver that took us to Sagada |
| Banga-an |
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Rice terraces between Banga-an and Tanulong |
| Batad |
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The jeepney on the way to Batad became stuck, so we all grabbed our stuff and continued on foot |
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Rice terraces, traditional houses, and a carabao in the town of Batad |
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Lucie in front of a traditional Ifugao house in the town of Batad |
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Rice terraces and some traditional huts in Batad; we passed this on our way to Tapplya Waterfall |
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Sitting at Simon's, looking out over the rugged Batad valley and its rice terraces |
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View of the rugged Batad valley and its rice terraces |
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Emiliano working on a bulul carving |
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Exploring the rice terraces near town |
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To prepare the rice patty, a woman pulls weeks, then pushes them deep into the mud to rot |
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Clear water pounds over the waterfall; the ferns on the rock walls of the amphitheatre undulated from the wind created by the falling water |
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Black Bishop |
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Black Bishop |
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Black King |
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Black King |
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Black Kinght |
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Black Kinght |
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Black Pawn |
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Black Pawn |
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Black Queen |
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Black Queen |
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Black Rook |
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Chess set |
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Chess set |
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Chess set |
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White Bishop |
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White Bishop |
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White King |
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White King |
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White Knight |
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White Knight |
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White Pawn |
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White Pawn |
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White Queen |
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White Queen |
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White Rook |
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Chess set |
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The kamagong chess set |
| Besao |
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Street stall selling chickens and other raw meats |
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A group of people decide to butcher their carabao using one lane of the road |
| Sagada |
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The entrance to Lumiang Cave, stuffed with over 100 coffins, some of which are more than 500 years old |
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Unknown: We regretted not bringing our rock gear to Sagada, as there is plenty of interesting limestone towers to climb, like this one in Echo Valley |
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View of coffins hanging on a cliff face in Echo Valley |
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View of coffins hanging on a cliff face in Echo Valley |
| Tanulong |
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Unhappy carabao |
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Lucie plants rice with Gloria, a native of Tanulong |
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A man and his grandson take a break from working in the rice terraces |
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A man turns up the soil in a rice patty using a carabao (Copyright © Lucie Wellner) |
