PHILIPPINES - The Banaue Rice Terraces

The Banaue 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 "Eight 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 Fields has been built largely by hand with hand tools and animal power.  They are feed by an ancient irrigation system from the rainforests above the terraces.

Thanks to Darawisan for the card.