Luxuries and amenities for one Filipino family
This man was lucky enough to have a caribou to help with the work! We saw many rice field workers and men out plowing with these oxen and wooden implements.
Laundry day at an Agta village. They get things amazingly clean in these stagnant waters!
This is the woman Steve and Matt took to the hospital... only to find out they needed to track down blood for her too. It's quite a story! Goiters like this are quite common, but the doctors feared hers would be detrimental to her breathing.
This is the chieftain from Ipil; he proudly took us up the mountain to see his vast fields and his old home. His arthritis now bothers him too much to live up the mountain, so his youngest son has taken over the old home and the chieftain built a new one in the village. Notice the gorgeous and isolated placement on the mountainside!
The trek to get up to that house had not been easy -- and Matt was carrying Ben not only because he was tired, but because we didn't want to chance him falling off the side of the trail and down the mountain! Zach and Mikayla were way out in front, but Chloe hadn't yet fully warmed up and was laggin back with me, behind Steve, Matt, Ben & Jen.

The opposite side of the mountain was more densely populated. To give you an example of the size of this home, notice the white-shirted figure in the doorway. She is a young woman about the size of your average 12-14 year old.
Something I left out of our post on eating in the tribe... The chicken who roamed through the waste from the chieftain's toilet was also very adept at sneaking food from their fancy stove! (This stove, like the fan and TV, were luxuries in stark contrast to the rest of the villagers' homes... and the chieftains own dirt floors & open sewer.)
This was actually at a classy resort where the Hagens go for family swims. There are buckets by the toilet, and you fill them at the pump in order to force flush the toilets. The girls had a little too much fun with this...