The Snapshots in Time Collection

Terraced Mountain Valley with Switchback Road, Benguet Highlands, Philippines

Terraced Mountain Valley with Switchback Road, Benguet Highlands, Philippines

This landscape view captures the terraced highlands of the Cordillera Central mountain range in northern Luzon, likely near Baguio in Benguet province. In the early 1900s, the American colonial government built roads into these mountains to establish Baguio as a hill station, escaping the tropical heat of the lowlands. Project: 218494