Mabuhay from the Philippines! 🇵🇭👋 In this series we share budget travel tips for this fascinating country, starting with this information-packed video & our full Philippines playlist: Philippines Arrival Guide: kzread.info/dash/bejne/m42M1MuoirOoZbg.html PHILIPPINES 🇵🇭: kzread.info/head/PLCmNbKU5iMrm9Npya3L_hhtKCInmeN_j1 As always, please remember to LIKE, Comment & SHARE with your friends🙏🤗🇵🇭 Mandy & Lee xx

Brilliant video and great scenery!! Thank you so much for your hints and tips with the positive mindset. After having treatment on and off over the past couple of weeks at moorfields eye hospital, a few things are improving but still taking every day as it comes. Hope all is well, take care

@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your lovely comment, Peter. A positive mindset is everything, especially coupled with exercise to get those feel-good hormones pumping. Sending you a big hug and all the very best wishes for your recovery and health 🤗♥️ ~

excellent video, the 18 minutes play time is just right..

@FrugalTravellers

20 күн бұрын

Thank you for the feedback, Robert. KZread seems to be pushing long form videos but we definitely aren't looking at making videos that are 40 minutes or more! We aim to get vlogs under 20 minutes, but will stretch to 25 minutes if we feel the information is interesting and entertaining 😁🤗 We're so pleased you enjoyed this one.

The first rice terraces that became popular before but now there are a lot rice terraces that are also worth visiting like Batad, Bangaan, Mayoyao, Hungduan, Hapao , and Maligcong in mt. Province .

@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

Batad was truly spectacular 🙌. I hadn't heard of the others, and will put them on the list for next time. Thank you for sharing this information.

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@FrugalTravellers

25 күн бұрын

Thank you so much 🙏😍

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@FrugalTravellers

20 күн бұрын

Thank you for the love 🤗😍♥️

Subscribed! I enjoyed watching you guys. Thank you for loving the Philippines. ❤️🇵🇭

@FrugalTravellers

20 күн бұрын

Thank you so much 🙏❤️ We hope you enjoy our next Philippines videos. ❤️🇵🇭

Hi Mandy & Lee, As previously mentioned, the scenery is beautiful but is issue is to get there as paths aren't made safe. Also them watch dogs may not bite but they surely know how to scare intruders (AKA travelers). I find them Jeep-buses pretty interesting, so unusual in comparison to other type of transportation. Folks can be so creative, what an ingenious way to make a "cablecar" to transport things down & up. That gentleman is master wood carver! I would have loved to see more of his work.. Enjoy your week, take care 🙋🏻‍♂️

@wintersojourn9356

Ай бұрын

Yes, the master woodcarver, I’ve seen high quality art such as is in homes of friends & families, & newer acquisitions do not appear as beautiful, detailed & well finished.

@SERGIO-cr6uy

Ай бұрын

@@wintersojourn9356 So much work goes into details, I'm pretty sure that gentleman isn't paid enough for his artwork.

@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

Hi Sergio 👋 So many interesting things going on there. Yes, I slipped badly on a wet path and flared up a back problem for a month. 😌. We give the dogs a wide berth! The jeepneys are awesome and were a highlight of the Philippines to travel in them for me. 😊. The cable transporters were ingenious and seem the perfect way to transport things across the steep valleys there. 👍 And that wood carver! A master carver at work. Full respect! If I ever do buy souvenirs (not really possible unfortunately travelling permanently with a small pack) I try to buy something direct from the artist who deserves the full reward. 🙏 Have a great week. 👍👍

Thanks to you both now I know there are 2 rice terraces. I didn’t know and never heard of Batad until your previous video. I think Batad looks better than Banaue. They both look amazing though 💚. The furthest north I’ve been to is Baguio. Fyi...the eggplant (torta) you ate is not vegetarian. They dip the eggplant in an egg mixture. The turon (fried banana) you had is one of Filipinos fav snack. You can buy turon with langka (jackfruit), ube (purple yam), and chocolate inside. Lee and Mandy take care always and happy travels.

@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

Hello Amalia, and thank you so much for your lovely comment and for the great information. Just so you know, I am now craving turon with jackfruit 😋😁 I was so excited thinking I'd finally found a vegan dish, so I appreciate knowing it was made with egg. Batad, in my opinion, is way more beautiful and unspoiled that Banaue, which unfortunately has become a victim of its own popularity. It looks as they're building a road to Batad so I hate to think of what it will look like in 10 years. Now's the time to go, when it is still lovely and unspoilt. Sending you best wishes and a big hug, from Lee and I 😍🤗

Amazing place, stunning scenery. ❤ xx

@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

Isn't it spectacular! Thank you so much for your lovely comment, Susan 🙏😍

Cool video guys, bit of rain never hurt. Lol. Amazing scenery! I remember that viewpoint.😊

@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

I'm glad it took you back to your experience there. 🙏. It's impossible to avoid rain forever. It'll catch you up somewhere. 😂 We were pretty fortunate overall there considering. Awesome place. 🙏😍

most of the rice terraces there have erroded and are neglected because the newer generations prefer to go to the big cities to find work rather than continue with the trtadition of planting rice on the terraces.

@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

Yes, we'd read about the erosion with many of the rice terracesin Banaue, which is why it was so wonderful to see the Batad Rice terraces in such good condition, and still being worked by local families.

@ryeeye

28 күн бұрын

dont believe this eejit. it is only some of and not most

in baguio, batad,banaue and other parts of the mountain regions in and around the cordileras, people eat dogs...it's a delicacy for them.

@eagleofthenorthmacroexcell6843

Ай бұрын

Not only cordillerans eat dogs, kaya wag ka magturo and it's not their delicacy. It's the lowlanders who introduced this meat to them.

@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this information. I was trying to stick to a vegan or at least a vegetarian diet during our 28 days in the Philippines, following surgery.

@eagleofthenorthmacroexcell6843

Ай бұрын

Who told you that dog is a delicacy of the cordillerans? Do you think only cordillerans eat dogs?

@awooooooooooo7921

Ай бұрын

dont spread fake news idiot!!!!!!!!

@PidokJacob

Ай бұрын

@@eagleofthenorthmacroexcell6843 The point is...they eat dogs, regardless of who or where...

The viewpoint with I Love Banaue used to be nice with all the terraces seen when I went there in the 1990s. But the children preferred working in offices who have became educated so there's no one to maintain farming the lands of their families

@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

Hello Victoria, and thank you so much for your comment. I am sure Banaue looked very different when my sister and I went there in 2014... I was surprised at the fact there were houses and shops all along the road. Batad was so quiet and beautiful in comparison, with local families still tending the rice terraces, but that might all change when the road goes in.

I’m with you Mandy! I hate bridges that sway and bounce. 🤢

@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

Oh, I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one, Carolina 🤗😍

the people that live there since ancient times are head hunters. the igorots, the ifgugaos, the itnegs....the kalingas...

@eagleofthenorthmacroexcell6843

Ай бұрын

don't talk about cordillerans if you don't know nothing about them.

@PidokJacob

Ай бұрын

@@eagleofthenorthmacroexcell6843 The ritualistic sacrifice of what is universally referred to as people’s “best friend” has been part of countless ethnic rites since time immemorial. As an animal that has been culturally understood as being the guardian to the gateways of the land of the living and the dead, the dog in ritualistic slaughter plays a crucial role in the spiritual interpretations of the interplay between life and death. As notions of influence move from colonial to more modern cultural understandings, the ritual sacrifice of dogs has moved also from areas of ceremonial worth to back-alley Igorot eateries, as dog meat found itself being incorporated into the Cordillera highland menu. Driven even more so by influences of touristic consumption, the exoticization of the Igorot has also seen the same treatment of their rituals, which have now been redesigned to cater to the outsider’s unknowing gaze. The Igorot in modern conventions become privy to the creation of identifying tropes that further distinguish them as the savage devourer of a friendly animal. This paper focuses on describing how the rituality and culture of dog sacrifice and consumption tend to shift in meaning, purpose, and representations from the past to present. The paper also explores how rituals involving dogs and their sacrifice have been interpreted over time and have become part of a modern consensus towards trope and identity construction. Although discussing Igorot traditions and rituals involving dogs, I do not go deep into the technicalities and specificities of ritual dog sacrifice as exhibited individually by varying ethnolinguistic groups in the Cordillera. Instead, I discuss how such ritualistic traits have converged and would eventually obtain varying interpretations, leading to more modern apprehensions.

@PidokJacob

Ай бұрын

@@eagleofthenorthmacroexcell6843 The ritualistic sacrifice of what is universally referred to as people’s “best friend” has been part of countless ethnic rites since time immemorial. As an animal that has been culturally understood as being the guardian to the gateways of the land of the living and the dead, the dog in ritualistic slaughter plays a crucial role in the spiritual interpretations of the interplay between life and death. As notions of influence move from colonial to more modern cultural understandings, the ritual sacrifice of dogs has moved also from areas of ceremonial worth to back-alley Igorot eateries, as dog meat found itself being incorporated into the Cordillera highland menu. Driven even more so by influences of touristic consumption, the exoticization of the Igorot has also seen the same treatment of their rituals, which have now been redesigned to cater to the outsider’s unknowing gaze. The Igorot in modern conventions become privy to the creation of identifying tropes that further distinguish them as the savage devourer of a friendly animal. This paper focuses on describing how the rituality and culture of dog sacrifice and consumption tend to shift in meaning, purpose, and representations from the past to present. The paper also explores how rituals involving dogs and their sacrifice have been interpreted over time and have become part of a modern consensus towards trope and identity construction. Although discussing Igorot traditions and rituals involving dogs, I do not go deep into the technicalities and specificities of ritual dog sacrifice as exhibited individually by varying ethnolinguistic groups in the Cordillera. Instead, I discuss how such ritualistic traits have converged and would eventually obtain varying interpretations, leading to more modern apprehensions.

@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to comment.

It looks amazing, even in the rain! The pulley system is an invention that has no doubt saved a lot of "backs" imagine humping materials up & down those hills! Take care and stay safe x 🙏🇬🇧

@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

Hi Steve 👋. It certainly is pretty impressive how they set up those pulley systems. The ironic thing was I did my back in lifting up the rocks to help the guys out there. 😏. The moral of that story is.... Leave the hard labour to the young ones. 😊

@steves7013

Ай бұрын

@@FrugalTravellers 😂😂

Did you travel to any caves in the Mountain?

@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

No, we didn't know there were any caves there. Thank you for sharing this information 🙏

@jserenity

Ай бұрын

@@FrugalTravellers , I am not sure about Banawe but Sagada have a lots of cave. They even caves that is good enough for kids and fat person like me. And its a burial cave even. And you literally see carved coffins with actual bones while trekking the inside of the caves

Filipino here in NY watching 👍

@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

Hello Manong, and welcome to our channel 👋🙌 We had such an amazing time in the Philippines, and here is our full playlist, with more videos to come from Manila and Palawan 🇵🇭♥️ PHILIPPINES 🇵🇭: kzread.info/head/PLCmNbKU5iMrm9Npya3L_hhtKCInmeN_j1

If you have a 20 peso bill, you can see the banaue rice terraces is on the design 😊 0:41 also, it is simply called a tricycle, the locals might get confused if you call it a "tuktuk" because that's a term mostly used in Thailand

@FrugalTravellers

22 күн бұрын

That's so amazing. Thank you 🙏❤️ Good to know about the tricycle. 👍

your new subscriber watching from baguio city,watching from baguio city

@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

Hello Florentino 👋 We would love to visit Baguio City one day! This is our Philippines playlist, and we hope you enjoy these videos 🇵🇭♥️ PHILIPPINES 🇵🇭: kzread.info/head/PLCmNbKU5iMrm9Npya3L_hhtKCInmeN_j1

Hello. Thanks for the nice video. Please make a video fully dedicated to tips and tricks about traveling to Philippine.

@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

Hi Danushka. Thank you for the great suggestion. We'll see how well these Philippines videos do, and could then make a travelling in the Philippines vlog. Here is our Philippines playlist if you would like to see more videos with prices and information: PHILIPPINES 🇵🇭: kzread.info/head/PLCmNbKU5iMrm9Npya3L_hhtKCInmeN_j1

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@FrugalTravellers

Ай бұрын

Thank you for the love, Edgar 😍♥️ Here's our Philippines playlist: PHILIPPINES 🇵🇭: kzread.info/head/PLCmNbKU5iMrm9Npya3L_hhtKCInmeN_j1