first night in the tribe

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	First we drove up across the mountains to Baguio.		We stopped here to overlook the valley before going into Baguio. Notice the terraced gardens beneath us as a common gardening characteristic of the Igorot people.
	In Baguio they were celebrating the Chinese New Year, so we were delayed by the parade.		More Chinese New Year Parade celebrations.
	The view from our hotel room window.		Here we were planning and looking over the different Northern Luzon people groups that our mission is looking at trying to place people in.
	The next morning we took this bus across the mountains to a Kankanaey village called Abatan.		This was the view from an area where we stopped for lunch.
	Some of the mountain people have good quality houses.		The bridge has a steel frame and wooden planks. It felt stable as we rode across it.
	The mountain road went higher and then back down as we got closer to our destination.		This is our first view of one of the valleys where the Kankanaey live. There are a few Kankanaey villages in this picture.
	The town of Abatan where we waited for the next bus.		These Kankanaey kids kept peeking at us and saying "hello" and then ducking behind the curtain again.
	Here is the house in Pandayan, the first Kankany village were we stayed. This is where the story on the intro page takes place.		The home owner's taro garden.
	The rocky path down to the house.		The living room of the house.
	Emjoying a cup of coffee in the cool mountain air.		Fish traps – they place them in the irrigation streams of their rice terraces and catch 'mudfish' which they eat later.
	This is where the chickens roost.		We watched as they butchered and prepared a chicken for lunch.
	Watching the chicken preparations.		Cute puppy dog – will probably become someone's lunch one day.
	The mountain in the center of the valley is where the Japanese kept their artillery post during World War II.		These rice terraces are irrigated by a stream that flows from a spring up on the hill.
	One of the old style houses with a thatch roof – the area below was for visiting with friends and neighbors.		A concrete path through the village – inside the village there were no roads; only footpaths.
	More old style houses.		This is the area where they used to make sacrifices to the spirits in hopes of healing a sick person or warding off the anger of a dead ancestor.
	The local school grounds.		Inside the church in Pandayan.
	The path to the next village – it was about an hour and twenty minute hike.		We stopped by a waterfall to get our picture.
	More of the pathway to the next village.		The view of the valley – our village we came from was just to the right of the mountain you see in the middle.
	In the next village, more footpaths.		They gave us an opportunity to share our testimony in English. I don't know how much they understood.
	These kids kept rubbing my beard and telling me I smelled good.		The rice terraces for the 2nd village.
	This path led down to a very nice lookout area.		There we are with Jun-Jun, the missionary/pastor.
	This was the path out of the village, early in the morning.		More of the path out of the village.
	The path out of the village was a long, slow, muddy, uphill hike for about an hour and a half.		The view from above the valley was beautiful – we enjoyed seeing God's creation!
	This van/bus we took from the village on top of the hill to Mankayan, a larger Kankanaey town where we rented a van to get back to Baguio. We shared this vehicle with 29 people.		The bus terminal.
	Coming back to Baguio, we crossed the highest point on the Philippine highway system – 7400 feet.
	In Baguio, people carry some things on their heads.		The Baguio market – all kinds of meat and fish.
	Very fresh vegetables – a very healthy place to get your groceries!

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