The Banaue Rice Terraces, to a greater extent than popularly known equally Hagdan Hagdang Palayan ng Banaue, is i of the Philippines' iconic too ancient landscape masterpiece of Batad's ancestors, the Ifugaos. The rice terraces establish business office of the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, ancient sprawling human-made structures from 2,000 to 6,000 years old.
Our Trip
Part of our Sagada tour bundle is a sidetrip to the Banaue Rice Terraces. Travelling betwixt Sagada too Banaue takes ii hours passing pocket-size towns of Mountain Province too Ifugao. On our original itinerary, nosotros are supposed to endure visiting the Banaue Rice Terraces rootage earlier nosotros checked inwards to the hotel inwards Sagada. But because it was already some 3:00 PM, too nosotros are scheduled to receive got the spelunking action at the Cave Connection, the Banaue trip was moved the next day.
Our telephone squall upward fourth dimension the next twenty-four hours was 7:00 AM outflow to Ifugao Province. It was a real long journeying passing a scenic road, amongst drop-off points that are then high inwards altitude. The highway looks to endure then unsafe to overstep through when it is rainy too moisture equally good equally when in that place are thick fogs where visibility is impossible. This is likewise a landslide prone highway.
But give thank y'all God, nosotros receive got traveled safely to our finish later to a greater extent than than ii threescore minutes drive. Most of us merely slept throughout the journey. By the way, in that place are several viewpoints of the Banaue Rice Terraces to run into it on dissimilar perspective: the Main View Point, Dayanara View Point, too the NFA-Aguian View Deck. We stopped at the tertiary i where y'all tin run into the thought similar to the former 1000-peso bill.
I was then excited to run into this house I longed to run into since I was inwards degree schoolhouse equally I alone saw this on textbooks too heard many stories almost the civilisation of the villagers. Finally its a dream that came true.
We arrived amongst few cars parked on the area. There is a sign that says "NFA-Aguian View Deck" on the left side of the parking expanse which is the entrance to the lower thought deck.
As nosotros achieve viewing deck, nosotros enjoyed the beautiful scenery too never missed taking photograph shots.
You tin likewise walk through the rice terraces going to a platform to larn a closer hold off of the mountain.
Oopss...Solo pic on the platform for a closer view. There are pocket-size rock carvings on the corners of the platform.
And of course, a grouping picture.
We left Banaue some 2:00 PM later tiffin going dorsum to Sagada for our countryside tour too Pongas Falls trekking.