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 ...

indigenous mountain people that live in the Philippines in the north of Luzon island. Almost 400 square kilometres (154 square miles) of rice terraces, which they have been cultivating for 2,000 ...

Amid the rice terraces of Kalinga, in northern Luzon, a century-old tattoo artist hand-taps tribal designs. Further south, in Dupax del Sur, Isinay weavers craft softly brilliant baby wraps using ...

The sheer scale of the rice terraces of the Cordilleras – a Unesco World Heritage Site – is impossible to comprehend. Carved out of the mountains of Luzon, they span 4,000 square miles (10,360 ...