A long and uncomfortable night bus journey north left us in the gorgeous little town of Banaue, high in the North Luzon mountains. The town itself is situated on the bend of a river, on a hill overlooking a beautiful valley, surrounded by other tiny rural villages. Many of the hotels and restaurants, ours included, are built on stilts on the very edge of the cliff and have amazing views of the entire region. The area is famous for the rice terraces that were origionally built nearly 2000yrs ago by the Ifugao people, a tribe of subsistance farmers that dominated the province at that time and continue to do so today. The terraces are cut into the mountains and built from base to summit like a giant staircase and house many tiny villages of tribes people,
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