Here is how I spent my Christmas vacation!!! This set of pictures follows our journey from Baguio to Bontoc where we stayed for two days. You must understand that I am quite afraid of heights so this was really a hair raising journey for me-- but not as hair raising as the trip from Bontoc to Lugawe as I will show later!!! The views were spectacular from Baguio all the way to Bontoc but the most breathtaking for me was the first glimpse of rice terracing. My electronic camera was quite inadequate to the task of capturing the beauty of the terrains but I offer these photos as a hint of the magnificence of the Cordillera Mountains of central Luzon and the sculpting of the mountains and valleys for the sake of sustenance-- over hundreds and some say thousands of years men and women have created these terraces, worked the land, planted and harvested.