"If I don't go to our rice field every day, we will have nothing to eat." It takes her an hour for a return trip to Batad, traversing rough terrain to reach the village that is inaccessible by ...

A remote mountain trek with indigenous rice farmers shows another side of the island nation better known for its beaches For ...

SUSTAINABILITY and innovation are the driving forces in "Adopt A Payoh: Preserving Cultural Heritage and Developing Future Leaders through Youth Engagement" — a project launched recently by the Ifugao ...

For 2,000 years, the high rice fields of the Ifugao have followed the contours of the mountains. The fruit of knowledge handed down from one generation to the next, and the expression of sacred ...

Being part of the Cordillera, I expected to see rice terraces, traditional houses, and people wearing G-strings in Kiangan. When I arrived, however, I saw American-period houses and people in cowboy ...

From the country's surfing capital, Siargao, and its "cloud nine" waves to the Ifugao rice terraces of Luzon, the Chocolate Hills in Bohol and the rolling hills of Batanes, the charm of the ...

For Joy Poligon, life is simple, if harsh. “If I don’t go to our rice field every day, we will have nothing to eat.” It takes her an hour for a return trip. Poligon is a rice farmer, mother ...