Banaue Rice Terraces

On the territory of more than 4000 square miles at an altitude of 1,524 meters above sea level in the mountains Ifuago in the Philippines you will find that the locals call the “eighth wonder of the world: hand-carved terraces on which the figure has been growing for 2000 years. Ancient people have done the job more than one generation, and terraces are irrigated by water from the tropical forest above them. People support them and to this day. It is believed that if these terraces to build one after another, the result is a line that can go around the world. Truly a miracle of light.