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Municipality in Ifugao, Philippines
Photo: Shubert Ciencia from Nueva Ecija, Philippines, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kiangan is a town in Ifugao, a province in the Cordillera mountain range in the north of the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. One of the province's cultural capitals, it is famous for its rice terraces and for being the site of Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita's surrender at the end of World War II.
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A rice terrace complex covering of mountain slopes. It is one of five rice terrace complexes in Ifugao included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, but is overlooked by tourists in favor of the more accessible ones in Banaue.
Yamashita Shrine
A war memorial commemorating General Yamashita's surrender in 1945.
Ifugao Museum
The regional branch of the National Museum of the Philippines system, featuring artefacts on Cordilleran natural history, art, ethnography and culture.
A secluded cascade.
A pair of caves (Bat and Labrynth) with an underground river and waterfall.
A pristine lake which is said to have inundated a village as part of a curse according to local legend.
Mumbungug Falls
A cascade whose waters irrigate the rice terraces downstream.
A towering peak.
A giant roadside boulder large enough to accommodate a viewdeck on top. It overlooks a highway curve and provides panoramic views of the Nagacadan Rice Terraces.
Kiangan Church
Kiangan's main Roman Catholic church. Its present octagonal and spired structure dates back from 1956, when it was rebuilt by Belgian missionaries following its destruction in World War II.
UCCP Kiangan
A gabled Protestant church built by American missionaries in 1926.
An old school building where General Yamashita formally surrendered in 1945. It houses a few artefacts from the event.
Kiangan is at the crossroads of two of Ifugao's major highways, namely the Nueva Vizcaya-Ifugao-Mountain Province Road, which is traversed by buses from Metro Manila, and the Tinoc-Kiangan-Lagawe Road, which connects…
Read in the guideThere are tricycles in town, but a 4WD or any vehicle suitable for mountain roads is best used. Most attractions in town are accessible following extended hikes.
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