Wooden Scooter Ifugao
It was chaos but great fun.
Wooden scooter ifugao. Download this stock image. The wooden scooter races are quite a spectacle to behold with artisans speeding downhill in traditional ifugao costume. Since the bikes have no brakes each race is a test of the craftsmens skills and the scooters quality. A seven kilometer downhill wooden scooter race set along the world famous unesco world heritage site of the banaue rice terraces.
They were created centuries ago to help people travel downhill faster. Ifugao men taking part in a wooden scooter race as part of the annual imbayah festival held in banuae northern luzon philippines kfntft from alamy s library of millions of high resolution stock photos illustrations and vectors. This is part of the wooden scooter race. Yep that s tadhana destiny right there in the works.
The afternoon started off with one of the highlights of the festival which was a homemade wooden scooter race from banaue point downhill for three miles to the plaza. These ethno indigenous homegrown homemade wooden scooters of ifugao were created centuries ago to help people travel downhill at a very fast rate. Photo by dave leprozo. And we got the best seats in the house as we watched the scooter racers zoomed past us in their two wheeled wooden scooters.
Ifugao men compete in the tug of war at the imbayah festival in banaue philippines. The ifugao rice god bulol bul ol anitos and the other rice guardians aligned the stars and literally the wooden scooters just for our eyes. The wooden scooter has long been the preferred means of transportation for ifugao philippine for people of the hill in banaue and is still used today as a cheaper alternative to gas powered motorcycles and scooters. Gusto natin ipakita na iyong mismong community natin lalo na itong tourist destination is tumutulong sa pag prevent ng drugs.
The ifugao indigenous community people had to walk up the surrounding hills almost every day to gather firewood and tend to their rice crops and carrying the load back down was an exhausting task that took them hours to complete. In ancient times wooden scooters use to transport woods and sweet potatoes from mountains to houses. School children from banaue ifugao head to school in their handcrafted wooden scooter. Ifugao men on their wooden scooters.
Nueva vizcaya ifugao mountain province rd banaue ifugao philippines.