There are jeepneys everywhere, thousands of them in the cities, hundreds of them out here in the provinces. And they load them to the hilt. We counted at least 25 people in and on this jeepney.
As the jeepney goes by, people jump on. The driver sometimes slows down and sometimes doesn't. Then when the jeepney gets to where you want to get off, you either just jump off, or if you're inside, you thump on the roof of the jeepney and the driver stops and lets you out. No signals for the car behind the jeepney. Each driver just has to stay awake and be sure not to run over the disembarking passengers.
We saw a place where the landslide had come down the mountain and destroyed some of the terraces. They were repairing it. This shows how they pack the inside of the paddy with clay to make it waterproof. Eventually this will be filled in with top soil and then flooded with water.
This was an interesting old log out in one of the paddies. We thought the fungus growing on it was interesting and sort of pretty.
These are the work-horses of the Philippines -- the carabao (care-a-BOUGH). This one took a breather. This paddy was more or less dried out, waiting, we supposed, to be plowed up and flooded so the seedlings could be planted.
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