The Batad amphitheatre in full green and again under water, the path down from the saddle, thatched houses above a paddy, and the valley at Banaue in morning mist. Photographs from the places these trips walk.
Every photograph here was taken in the valleys these banaue tour package trips cross — the terraces at Batad and Bangaan, the roadside viewpoint above Banaue town, and the villages along the way. Which cluster is which is set out on the terrace clusters page.
If you are trying to work out which season the photograph you fell for was taken in, best time to visit answers it — the flooded silver frames and the deep green ones are months apart.
The terraces at Batad in full green, curved tiers cut into the hillside below standing forestThe Batad amphitheatre with its terraces flooded and mirroring the sky, the village sitting in the middle of the bowlBatad village and its tin roofs ringed by terrace walls under heavy Cordillera cloudDense green terraces stepping down to the houses of Batad village, seen from the path aboveFlooded terraces reading as sheets of silver under low cloud, with forested ridges closing the valleyTwo walkers on the narrow cemented path down towards Batad, the terraces and village spread out below themStone steps and a rough timber handrail dropping into the terraces, with red ti plants in the foregroundA newly flooded paddy at dusk holding the last light, with dry stone retaining walls rising behind itThatched Ifugao houses raised on posts on the slope above a green terraceThe Banaue valley in morning mist, terraces and scattered houses running up both sidesA wide forested valley with terraces and a small village on the floor beneath the ridge lineTerraces filling the valley floor at Banaue, houses strung along the road beside themWater channels feeding terraces below a forested ridge under a clear blue skyA stone and timber viewing deck above the valley, with terraces on the far slope under building cloudThe Banaue valley framed by an open guesthouse window with a carved wooden sun hanging in the doorwayThe Welcome Main Viewpoint Banaue Rice Terraces sign against a blue sky above the roadside cafeThe Banaue main viewpoint sign at dusk, lit windows in the building below itThe Welcome to Banaue arch over the road, carved Ifugao figures on either post and market stalls beyond
See it for yourself
A photograph of a terrace is a photograph. Standing on the wall of one while somebody plants it is not the same thing.
