rice hills

clipped from worldheritage.heindorffhus.dk clipped from cu-megablog.blogspot.com clipped from www.crossculturedtraveler.com Two hundred miles north of Manila, on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, terraced rice paddies rise like giant stairs from the valley floor to an altitude of 5,000 feet along the steep contours of the Cordillera mountain range.