Hive Philippines Travel and Nature Photography #1042 - by Allmonitors
#1042 - Beautiful Nature Shots at Barangay Ballay Kabayan, Benguet for Friday.
Hello, wonderful Hiveans across the globe! However your week has been please take a deep breath as we’ve all arrived at the gateway to this weekend. May your Friday be filled with special, light hearted feeling that comes with completing another week of hard work and your upcoming weekend days be chill and bright😉.
Finally for our daily shots. After what felt like an eternity on the road for a tiring twelve hours starting from the chaotic Manila, a brief pause in the cold Baguio for breakfast, then we finally began the most challenging ascent into our destination in Kabayan, Benguet.
It was just past two in the afternoon on Thursday when we experienced this kind of silence that's deeply calming.
We reached a particular stretch of the challenging road during the last mile with high altitude air. I decided that it was then a perfect moment to stretch our legs and let the engine cool so we pulled over to the side of the narrow road.
We were greeted by a wave cold air that was so clean and fresh upon opening our vehicle doors. It was the kind of cold that cools the ears and wakes you up completely.
And then we just looked around us. The beautiful view was absolutely breathtaking, the mighty Cordillera mountains weren't just covered in wild greenery and some fog but also sculpted into a great work of agriculture.
Large terrace farms down the mountain slopes like stairways that were mostly green in colors. Most of the farms were fields of carrots with their green tops like a carpet. There could be cabbages too in these large agricultural mountains and many other vegetables probably potatoes.
The scale of their farming on these vertical land was a testament to the hard work and ingenuity of the local Igorot people. The only sounds were the gentle whisper of the wind and the sounds of farm life far below.
It was so peacefully quiet you could almost hear the clouds moving. We stood there on the roadside taking photos for a long while also not saying much but just absorbing the quiet and peace.
After a while being refreshed and filled with awe of this lovely place, we got back in our work horse vehicle and completed the last mile of our journey and just a matter of minutes we finally arrived at our final destination which is the Bulilit Homestay which we will be staying at overnight. More to follow on this adventure 😉.
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Shot taken in Kabayan Benguet, Philippines.
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wow this post really carried me along with you I could feel the tiredness of that twelve hour road trip from Manila the quick pause in Baguio and then the climb into Kabayan Benguet and I swear when you described opening the car door and that wave of cold clean air hit you I could almost feel it myself like I was standing there on that narrow roadside the picture of the Cordillera terraces you painted was so alive I could see the green carpets of carrots the possible cabbages and potatoes and the fog drifting between the mountains like slow moving curtains of mist it is amazing how the Igorot people shaped those steep slopes into farmland that looks like stairways into the clouds it says so much about their resilience and creativity and I loved how you captured the silence too the way you said it was so quiet you could almost hear the clouds move that line really stuck in my mind because silence like that is rare and precious in our noisy world it is the kind of silence that makes you pause and breathe and realize how small we are compared to nature reading this reminded me of my own times in mountain areas when the air was crisp and the world felt slowed down and I stayed still just to take it all in I think you really managed to give us not just the view but the feeling the peace and even the humility that comes when we stand in a place so much bigger than ourselves and I am excited to read more about your stay at the Bulilit Homestay because if the journey there was already this breathtaking then I know the destination will hold even more stories worth sharing thank you for giving us such a detailed heartfelt post because it doesn’t just describe it transports
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Thanks man, that's a word for word response you gave there 😉.
These are really wonderful pics of nature, the landscape, clouds, flowers, and ... you two!
Thank you 😊