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The public market of Kiangan.[/caption]
THERE’S something about Kiangan that usually hits first time visitors: it isn’t ethnic enough as the rest of the Cordilleras. This was how I felt when I first visited it in 1998. I was travelling to Sagada when a group of friends invited me to come with them to Kiangan. I had no idea where Kiangan was, but I was expecting that it would be as interesting as Sagada. However, when we arrived there I saw no native houses, no rice terraces and no one wearing G-Strings. Instead, I saw modern houses and people in cowboy outfits. And the rice terraces that I saw there were from the pictures at the museum.