Four jam-packed days of hiking through the giant-stepped rice paddies of Ifugao. We visited four clusters of rice terraces, three of them World Heritage Sites, and passed countless others while toploading on the roof a rushing jeepney through the province’s snaking roads. Here’s a quick summary of the goings on at PHILTOA’s Ifugao Heritage Warrior Caravan Run.

D A Y 1 : B A N A U E

Manila to Ifugao
Banaue Hotel
Banaue Rice Terraces
Banaue Ethnic Village and Pine Forest Resort

D A Y 2 : B A T A D

The Road to Batad Rice Terraces
Batad Rice Terraces

D A Y 3 : H U N G D U A N

Banaue’s Native Village Inn
Banaue to Hungduan
Hungduan’s Hapao Rice Terraces
Roaming Around Banaue’s Poblacion

D A Y 4 : K I A N G A N

Kiangan’s Nagacadan Rice Terraces
Kiangan Shrine

 

P O S T C A R D S

Stairways to Heaven
Batad Harvest

The Ifugao Heritage Warrior Caravan Run is a four-day familiarization tour around the province of Ifugao organized by PHILTOA [Philippine Tour Operators Association].

It was a hard fight to catch my ticket to Ifugao.

The night before, I got an invite from PHILTOA to join their Ifugao Heritage Warrior Caravan Run as part of the media group. I have a scheduled shoot somewhere in Ayala on the date of departure and I have only three hours to spare to hurry back home, pack, have dinner and leave for the rendezvous point.

It wouldn’t be as hard if the rain didn’t pour. I got stuck in Ayala as I was wrapping up my shoot.