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Sceneries in the Philippines - Banawe Rice Terraces |
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In the Mountain Province of northern Philippines, these layers upon layers of stair-like structures carved out of the sky. Built three thousand years ago by the Ifugaos, the terraces are part of a distinctively Asian system of irrigation and agriculture that utilizes the mountain slopes by carving them into embankments to trap rain water for rice farming.
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