Banaue Rice Terraces.

Banaue is world-famous for it's rice terraces. Rising the full height of the hills, they stretch the entire valley from Banaue to Batad, on both sides. The terraces are around 2000 years old, and it is believed that they were made by hand. If you look closely, you can see dots on the flat parts...even today people still work the terraces. The terraces maximise the space on the hills as rice needs flat ground to grow sucessfully. This ingenious work, that must have taken decades to build, has been labelled "The Eighth Wonder of the World".

The first day the terraces were shrouded in cloud, and I was incredibly disappointed. Luckily, by the third day, the weather started to dry, and the clouds started to lift, allowing me to take some spectualar photographs.

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