Tag Archives: banaue

3 of My Favorite Travel Memories

by on August 6, 2012

Meeting people, observing cultures, experiencing natural beauty, and eating food are just a few of the many things that build memories. No matter how far we’ve traveled or how much we’ve accomplished, we all have lasting memories. Christina from Jandal Road asked me to be part of a blogger relay series put on by Lowcostholidays.com [...]

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Photo Essay: Batad Rice Terraces in the Philippines

by on June 15, 2011

Rice is life in Batad, Philippines. It’s what you look at, it’s what you think about, it’s what you eat. And it’s not just the rice grown on terraces that reach the heavens that produces an omnipotent amazement, it’s the entire atmosphere, the trickle of the gravity fed irrigation system, the peace of being surrounded [...]

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Not Just A Tourist But A Family Friend: Mayoyao’s Paradise Rice Terraces

by on August 18, 2009

The jaunt from Batad to Mayoyao took nearly eight hours and included hiking, walking down completely barren mud roads, keeping my footing while crawling over fresh landslides, swinging back and forth on creeping jeeps, and clenching on to highly unstable homemade vehicular devices. “In Mayoyao you are not just a tourist, but a family friend,” [...]

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Batad Rice Terraces of Ifugao, Philippines

by on August 11, 2009

The overnight bus was slightly glacial (the aircon), the sharp winding curves were dizzying, but the morning sunshine that awakened me wriggling its rays through the green mountains was breathtaking.  I was aboard a Florida Liner bus from Manila to the town of Banaue in the rice terraced countryside province of Ifugao, the Philippines. After [...]

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