AS travelers, we often wonder what it might be like not only to journey across distances but also through time. Is there a place — or even a time machine — that can transport us back to an era when life was simple and uncomplicated, when meals came fresh from the sea, and nights were filled with the soothing lullaby of ocean waves under a sky ablaze with a million stars?
There is, in fact, such a place in the Philippines: the remote village of Chavayan on the island of Sabtang in Batanes. Home to about 200 residents, Chavayan is where stone houses — most built over a century ago — still stand, and where centuries-old traditions continue to shape the Ivatan people, whose roots stretch back over 4,000 years.
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