1042 - Beautiful Nature Shots at Barangay Ballay Kabayan, Benguet for Friday.

Hello, wonderful Hiveans across the globe! However your week has been please take a deep breath as we’ve all arrived at the gateway to this weekend. May your Friday be filled with special, light hearted feeling that comes with completing another week of hard work and your upcoming weekend days be chill and bright😉.

Finally for our daily shots. After what felt like an eternity on the road for a tiring twelve hours starting from the chaotic Manila, a brief pause in the cold Baguio for breakfast, then we finally began the most challenging ascent into our destination in Kabayan, Benguet.

It was just past two in the afternoon on Thursday when we experienced this kind of silence that's deeply calming.

We reached a particular stretch of the challenging road during the last mile with high altitude air. I decided that it was then a perfect moment to stretch our legs and let the engine cool so we pulled over to the side of the narrow road.

We were greeted by a wave cold air that was so clean and fresh upon opening our vehicle doors. It was the kind of cold that cools the ears and wakes you up completely.

And then we just looked around us. The beautiful view was absolutely breathtaking, the mighty Cordillera mountains weren't just covered in wild greenery and some fog but also sculpted into a great work of agriculture.

Large terrace farms down the mountain slopes like stairways that were mostly green in colors. Most of the farms were fields of carrots with their green tops like a carpet. There could be cabbages too in these large agricultural mountains and many other vegetables probably potatoes.

The scale of their farming on these vertical land was a testament to the hard work and ingenuity of the local Igorot people. The only sounds were the gentle whisper of the wind and the sounds of farm life far below.

It was so peacefully quiet you could almost hear the clouds moving. We stood there on the roadside taking photos for a long while also not saying much but just absorbing the quiet and peace.

After a while being refreshed and filled with awe of this lovely place, we got back in our work horse vehicle and completed the last mile of our journey and just a matter of minutes we finally arrived at our final destination which is the Bulilit Homestay which we will be staying at overnight. More to follow on this adventure 😉.

Follow me on my nature travels. Shot taken in Kabayan Benguet, Philippines.

Image/s were shot using Samsung Z5 flip phone. ~rex