Far from pre-dating Spanish colonization, the iconic rice terraces may be just as old as some colonial-period churches, a team of archaeologists find MANILA, Philippines – The Ifugao Rice Terraces may ...

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 to Batad, traversing rough terrain to reach ...

The beautiful, UNESCO-listed Tegallalang Rice Terrace, located north of Ubud, is actually an ancient irrigation system, dating back to the ninth century. Its series of emerald-green, sloping rice ...

Manila A 2,000 year-old Philippine treasure – the rice terraces that look like wild sculpted green ribbons on 10,360 square kilometer of mountains that straddle five towns on northern Luzon’s ...

My friend, Belinda Olivares Cunanan, insisted that I come for a dinner invitation at the Manila Peninsula. Sorry, I told her I’ve done that. I prefer to stay home ...

IFUGAO, Philippines — The Ifugao Rice Terraces are now in a critical stage of deterioration and do not allow the local communities to overcome the poverty line, according to the United Nations Food ...

The Banaue Rice Terraces are sometimes called the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’. Perched 1,500 metres up on the side of the Cordillera mountains in Ifugao, Philippines, the network of fields is as old ...

BANAUE, Philippines – The rice terraces are world famous, and the popular tourist site has also gone through several ups and downs over the years. It was always referred to as the eighth wonder of the ...

The rice terraces Hani people have cultivated for about 1,300 years are now a World Heritage site. Provided to China Daily UNESCO World Heritage designation lauds world wonder's blend of culture and ...