The Banaue Rice Terraces in Ifugao, Philippines, preserve a lifestyle over 2000 years old. Here, millennia ago, the local people carved terraces into the Philippine Cordilleras mountains, effectively creating paddies to grow rice in land that was otherwise too steep for farming. The terraces not only created flatland garden beds, they also held back and…
It is a hot and humid day in the middle of December. I have just arrived in an obscure Cambodian village on the Thailand border. Shops are closed and shutters are down. The town is probably enjoying an afternoon siesta. A definitive lull hangs over the place. But my heart is beating fast! There is…