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By Harley F. Palangchao
MAYOYAO, Ifugao: Local
villagers were joined by tourists in a rice granary in the middle of
the rice field where a mumbaki (native spiritual priest) performed
harvest prayer rites in one of the world’s heritage sites, the
Ifugao rice terraces.
More Filipinos are now becoming
part of the uphill bid to preserve and bring back the natural
grandeur of the Ifugao rice terraces not by just taking pictures of
the terraces but also by experiencing the culture that built the
terraces more than 200,000 years ago.
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