So here are more rice terrace photos. Alan was very patient every time Gracyn asked him to pull over while driving the windy windy road through the Cordillera Mountains from Bontoc to Candon. The landscape is absolutely beautiful. Fun facts about the Ifugao Rice Terraces:
1. If the walls were placed end to end, they would reach more than half-way around the earth.
2. It took the Ifugaos more than 2,000 years to build them.
3. The stone-walled terraces of Ifugao are the highest, best built, and most extensive in the world.
Upon arrival in Candon, we simply relaxed for the evening, enjoying a beautiful sunset. Little did we know that our stay in Candon would also include non-stop karaoke, from two different karaoke machines, plus killing two enormous and terrifying spiders (which Alan did very manfully).
On to the final UNESCO World Heritage Site we had put on our Philippines itinerary: Vigan. This, and I quote, is the "finest surviving example of a Spanish colonial town." Vigan was miraculously not bombed during WWII. This is a close as you want to get to it. We walked down several blocks of historic colonial architecture, but unfortunately Vigan was full of tourist souvenir shops, dirty streets, and cough-inducing air. Now we know better, and so do you!
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