Living terracess

1 wonder

Living landscapes shaped by generations working with the land.

Banaue & the Ifugao Rice Terraces, Ifugao, Cordillera, Philippines

Banaue & the Ifugao Rice Terraces

Ifugao, Cordillera, Philippines

Two thousand years of hand-built rice terraces climbing the Cordillera mountainsides — a living landscape of stone-and-mud paddies, fed by an intricate forest-and-irrigation system, often called the 'Eighth Wonder of the World'.