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Philippine Nature and Engineering Wonders

By xeroxss ⋅ May 26, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

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Banaue Rice Terraces - carved by the Ifugao’s

Indeed Philippines we’re blessed with abundant natural resources both beautiful and endearing. In my own eyes nothing could compare to it, and if you would ask me to choose to live between my homeland and a foreign country, I would willingly choose my country of birth. The endless beauty of my native land shows in both man made structural wonders and made by God’s loving hand. True Filipino’s by heart and soul will never forget the majestic Banaue Rice Terraces carved by the hands of the Ifugao’s dubbed as the “Eight Wonder of the World,” the Banaue Rice Terraces start from the base of the mountain range and reach up to several thousand feet high. It is said that their length, put end to end, would encircle half of the globe. Made 2,000 years ago, these rice terraces manifest the engineering skill and ingenuity of the sturdy Ifugao’s. Streams and springs found in the mountains were tapped and channeled into irrigation canals that run downhill through the rice terraces.

Tubbataha Reef Sulu Sea

One of the nature’s wonders in the Philippines is the Tubbataha Reef an atoll coral reef in the Sulu Sea that belongs to the Philippines. It is a marine sanctuary protected as Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park. The reef is composed of two atolls, North and South Reefs. Each reef has a single small islet that protrudes from the water. The atolls are separated by a deep channel 8 kilometers wide. Over one thousand species, including many that are endangered, can be found at on the reef. These include manta rays, lionfish, tortoises, clownfish and sharks.

Chocolate Hills in Bohol

Who among us Filipino’s can forget the Chocolate Hills an unusual geological formation in Bohol, Philippines. It is composed of around 1,268 perfectly cone-shaped hills, all about the same size, spread over an area of more than 50 sq km The hills are covered in green grass that turns brown during the dry season, giving them the name ”Chocolate Hills.”

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