Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Mankayan, Benguet


Beautiful mountain ranges taken along Colalo Road in Mankayan, Benguet on our way to Baguyos. 
Tilling Dam of Lepanto Mines.  This has become a controversy since the spillage from the dam contaminated the water supplies of the neighboring towns.  It is a health hazard among the people that lived nearby. 
Saturday Market
Poblacion, Mankayan, Benguet

Market day in Mankayan starts in the afternoon of Saturday and ends on Sunday afternoon the next day.  Merchants from neighboring towns bring their product(s)/produce(s) to sell.  Vegetables generally are cheap here and it is even cheaper when you buy them in the afternoon of Sunday as the merchants try to dispose off what they have before heading home.


Home Sweet Home
Patpat, Tabio, Mankayan, Benguet

This is our home in Mankayan.  It started as a small wooden house with 3 small bedrooms.  It has gotten bigger over the years when life became better.

Mankayan Municipal Hall
Poblacion, Mankayan, Benguet


This is Poblacion, Mankayan, Benguet




Two kids I met on my way home.  They were sent by their mother to fetch water from a nearby spring.  Life has become hard in this town.  Water supply is becoming a problem - a result of deforestation and mankind's disregard for nature.


Mankayan National High School destroyed by the sinking ground that resulted from Lepanto Mine's underground tunnels.  Lepanto Mines Company denied that this was due to the underground tunnels but what else could it be?


This is the Plaza.


Mangoes and Red Onions for sale on a Saturday afternoon.


The Plaza taken from the Mankayan Municipal Hall

 
Slaughter market place.  Beyond is Apayao Village


Cooking pancit for the visitors.  This is how we do it.


Tabio Barangay Hall - now turned into classrooms for the students that were displaced by the sinking buildings of Mankayan Central School


Sayangan, Atok
Sunshine Bus Stop