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Kalinga · Traditional Tattoo & Body Art Heritage

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Kalinga · Traditional Tattoo & Body Art Heritage

Kalinga is a top destination for traditional tattoo & body art heritage enthusiasts. Key requirements include indigenous or ancestral tattoo traditions, licensed masters, cultural significance.

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Kalinga is a top destination for traditional tattoo & body art heritage enthusiasts. Key requirements include indigenous or ancestral tattoo traditions, licensed masters, cultural significance.

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Best season: Year-round
Difficulty: moderate
Region: Philippines

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Ancient stone carved wheel at Konark Sun Temple in Odisha, India.

Photo by Rajneesh Narula

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12th-century Kalinga architectural style temple in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Photo by Ravi Mittal

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Elderly woman performing traditional hand-tap tattooing on a younger person's back in Kalinga, Philippines.

Photo by Dianne Magbanua-Negado

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Photo by Abhinav Anand

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Nearly in every place in the Philippines utilizes the jeepney. A modified military vehicle that is used for general use for the population. They are important to Kalinga as they are the primary mode of transportation for the people as it carries goods ranging from general merchandise, produce, and even animals like pigs, goats, and chickens.

Photo by Joshua Kyle

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a lizard sitting on a branch of a tree

Photo by Abhinav Anand

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a couple of small animals sitting on top of a tree branch

Photo by Abhinav Anand

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Goods are often bought from the City of Tabuk and are delivered throughout the localities in the outskirts of Kalinga where people are agriculturally oriented and need to work their lands.

Photo by Joshua Kyle

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A riprap revetment is being installed on the Saltan River in Balbalan built to prevent further soil erosion on the river bank where locals live.

Photo by Joshua Kyle

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Many bridges in Balbalan are constructed using wood as metal nor concrete are very expensive for the locals to utilize and might take a longer time to be built. Though dangers arise whenever a flood occurs in the river below which might damage or even carry the bridge away.

Photo by Joshua Kyle

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Rice terraces are considered efficient means of agriculture are they do not allow mineral and salt deposits on the soil that would ultimately affect soil fertility and ability to hold water. The Kalingas, being indigenous people in the Cordilleras are also known to practice this as being general for the Igorots who live in the region.

Photo by Joshua Kyle

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People from other parts of Kalinga need other forms of materials from the city that are usually found there like food products, clothes, gasoline, liquified petroleum gas, and sometimes animals like chicken and pig.

Photo by Joshua Kyle

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