Rice Terrace Steps — Banaue Philippine Aerial
190.13 $
An aerial view of the 2,000-year-old Banaue rice terraces in the Philippines — the hand-carved mountain terraces creating a monumental staircase of water-filled paddy fields.
Description
The Banaue Rice Terraces of Ifugao province, carved from the mountain slopes of Luzon over the past 2,000 years by the indigenous Ifugao people using hand tools, are described by UNESCO as a living cultural landscape of exceptional universal value. This aerial photograph, made from a drone at 200m altitude during the wet rice growing season when all the terrace paddies are flooded, captures the full vertical extent of the terraced landscape — the waterfilled paddies reflecting the sky and creating an extraordinary staircase of silver mirrors on the mountain face. The photograph has been used extensively in UNESCO world heritage communications, Philippine tourism promotion, and fine art collections internationally.
