Steven Gamboa
People have the passion for taking all the risk in traveling from one place to another. It takes a lot of courage to enter isolated places. Life is not at stake if you are so careful. The best reminder for the adventurous people is to research before setting off to the desired destinations. If you are a hiker, then it is best to climb the mountain of Tinglayan, Kalinga Philippines. It is a place where you can find the last “mambabatok” or a tattooist who does it in a traditional way.
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The most fascinating for naïve people, they thought that rice paddies are not existing on the mountain. The wrong notion will be cleared out when seeing the rice paddies in Ifugao. The Banaue Rice Terraces is well-known as the Seven Wonders of the World. It gives life to the farmers to produce local rice breeds and distributed to different places in the country.
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Rice paddies are not limited only in Ifugao. It can be seen in the Cordillera areas. In Tinglayan Kalinga, there are twenty barangays that had created their own rice paddies for personal consumption. The local tribes had their time for planting and harvesting based on the seasonal calendar. It seems too high to hike the mountains but the beauty will be found if you had tried it.
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The local tribes are so accommodating for the visitors that may want to witness the beauty in the mountainous areas in Kalinga. Most of the places are having the rice paddies to sustain their lives. There are some practices and cultures that the local tribes need to follow. You might want to discover how it was done. It can be found out by going through the steep mountain and hike up two or three mountains to reach the barangays.
There is no harm if you follow the social norms of the place. You need to understand the culture and the practice to live with the local tribes. You can be amazed at how they manage to live in the mountains.
