#281 - Got our first tribal ink in Buscalan.
Hello again everyone, my fellow Hiveans. I hope you are all doing great at this time of the day wherever your locations are, I hope and there is peace out there. Allow me once again to share some photos of our travel and this time taking you back to Buscalan.
During our first day in this remote village, we already asked one of Apo Wang-Od grand daughter to ink us with tribal marks in their traditional way of tattoo which is using a spike or thorns from calamansi trees. She then used a small portion of dried bamboo trunk to push the ink which is a wet ashes from charcoals. The pain is uneven and very irritating at the same time but we have to endure it to get our desired design.
So after we are done with the traditional tattoo from her grand daughter, we also lined up in a waiting queue and this time is already with Wang-Od to get her signature three dots tattoo. I believe I have posted all her images previously here. So these are our tattoos, mine is an arrow head and my wife chose Scorpio.
My wife and I take turns taking our photos with the access road going to this remote village. The road is still rough and not yet cemented. We also rented motorcycle and driver to get us there at the edge of the road.
Then we have to hike another hour or less depending on the speed of the hiker. We can see the distance is short but when the hike has already begun, it took us some time to get to their village because of the winding trek that we have to traverse on.
The road going here is looks dangerous especially when it is raining because of thr threat of soil erosion in those mountains which could lead to landslides which happens most of the time in the Cordillera region. Good thing when we arrived there was no threat of rain at all.
Since the village is remotely located and is too far away from the town proper, the locals here have to improvise and til the mountains and made it into rice terraces which is a common practice here in the mountains areas. They can grow their own crops and have their own source of carbs.
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Shot taken in Kalinga, Philippines.
Image/s were shot using Panasonic Lumix ZS110. ~rex