Open Air Museum in Ifugao presents culture, sustains native rice planting

Kiangan, Ifugao – There is an Open Air Museum here which presents a landscape of Ifugao culture to visitors, as well as provides a venue to sustain the traditional rice growing culture of the locals. Opened in 2014, the Open Air Museum at the Nagacadan Rice Terraces has attracted more than the usual number of tourists in this part of the Cordillera Region, making tourism a major source of the town’s income, next to agriculture. The Nagacadan Rice Terraces is the fifth World Heritage Site in the Cordillera Region, declared by the UNESCO in 1995 as an outstanding example of living cultural landscapes. FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE – Tourists trek to the Nagacadan Rice Terraces of Kiangan, Ifugao, considered as an Open Air Museum because it showcases the magnificent landscape with farmers planting ‘tinawon,’ a native organic rice in the province. (Zaldy Comanda) The transformation of this site, known as the top [...]