After a day of hiking narrow trails, through mountain tribe villages, and dozens of rice and vegetable terraces of the central Cordillera mountains, we reached the UNESCO world heritage rice paddies of Batad village. These two thousand year old mud wall terraces were absolutely breath taking, naturally we sat for a long while taking it all in. Batad village, is a community of Ifugao peoples, one of the many mountain tribes living in the Cordillera mountain range. Here, the traditional belief of Animism is still very alive, that is the belief that animals, plants and rocks have souls, along with natural phenomena such as thunder and rivers, and other entities of the natural environment. Amanda and I were lucky enough to have the opportunity to soak in Ifugao culture, staying a night at a homestay in
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