When you go to Baguio City, visit Tam-Awan Village and discover the art and culture of the Cordillera people. The village has seven ifugao huts and two Kalinga houses constructed using the original materials and design of traditional Cordillera villages. Each hut or house has a specific purpose - Bugnay hut is for a middle size family, the Fertility hut is where a married couple stays after one year of inability to produce a child, the Binayon is a dwelling for a rich family in Southern Kalinga, the Dap-ay is strictly for men only in the Mt. Province. I think it is possible to stay overnight in these huts or houses. To see these houses, you will follow an eco-trail (it was slippery when we went there because it rained the day before, so better wear rubber shoes). Along the trail, we observed ethnic sculptures and designs representing their culture inlcuding phallic symbols representing fertility.
Tam-awan Village is also a venue for art exhibits. There were exhibits of solar drawings - these are pictures where a magnifying glass was used to burn pattern from the rays of the sun. The drawings are awesome, very detailed - a product of patience and creativity. The cost of the pictures ranges from P5,000 to PP25,000 depending on the size.
There is also portrait sketching for the visitors. You pay P100.00 and the artists (not only one but about five) will draw your portrait. Geof and Julia had a portrait sketching session - two artists drew Julia while three artists drew Geof's portrait. We got four sketches - one for each. Some of the sketches, though, did not resemble our kids. But "art is not reality" as they say - so artists interpret reality differently.
We tried also the wine produced from different ingredients like rice, coffee, bugnay and yakun. A separate blog will be written about this.
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