BANAWE RICE TERRACES - #272930
Ifugao Province
The
BANAWE RICE TERRACES are considered as 2,000 year old terraces that
were whittled into the mountains of Ifugao Province in the Philippines
Cordilleras by ancestors of the Batad native people. Considered as “Eighth Wonder of the World”
these fields are stretching like steeping stones to the sky, which are situated
about 1,500 meters above sea level and cover 4,000 square miles of
mountainside. The Rice Terrace Field has
been built largely by hand with hand tolls and animal power. They are fed by an ancient irrigation system
from the rainforests above the terraces.
