#524 - Batad Ifugao shots for the day.
A wonderful Wednesday evening once again fellow Hiveans. I am on vacation today and tomorrow so I am making the most of it. Earlier before six in the morning I woke up to prepare breakfast for us because my son is going to school. Then after preparing the meal and we done eating breakfast, I dropped off my son at school, my niece and her mother also were going to the same school so went there together. My niece is in grade one elementary while her kuya, my son, is in grade nine already. Then after that, I also accompanied my mother-in-law because she meeds to go to the market to buy our household needs. The purchasing power of peso here has decreased because the prices of goods has dramatically increase which led me to sending my resume to other companies in the hope that at my age crossing fourty, that companies still prefer an experienced one.
Anyways, enough about life topics and let's move on to our daily photos. Here we have a great view of a part of the rice terraces. The fields are empty for months and the planting season will commence next year before the summer season. As of now, it is cold so the locals do not want to plant because it will just be ruined.
We have here a large bumble bee which is at the top of the mountain where the viewpoint is. There are several daisies that are planted there so that's one reason these critters are here.
A zoomed in view of a part of one of the mountains and it shows a numbers of houses. The locals have already used galvanized roofing and concrete while they also still keep the older traditional nipas which serve as their granaries.
Our guide which is already ahead of us. He is priest in one of the religious churches here in this village. This is the second time we come here and doesn't really need a guide but these people only live by planting and another source of their income is tourism so getting a guide will definitely lift up and support their livelihood here.
The rice crops which were already harvested are used as in composting, the leaves or trunk of the rice were submerged in to the field with water and they just leave them there to decay and become part of earth which will nourish the next seeds in the oncoming planting season. All natural, organic, no pesticides are used here by the locals.
Follow me on my nature travels.
Shot taken in Batad Ifugao, Philippines.
Image/s were shot using Panasonic Lumix ZS110. ~rex