| Raised two to three feet off the ground, houses have beams of wood, walls of bamboo, and roofs of rice straw or cogon grass. |
| The floor of the main building is elevated and roofs are generally thatched with cogon grasses and Japanese cypress bark. |
| The country is fairly open, as there is no thick forest, but only scrub and cogon, or elephant grass. |
| I climb down to the little settlement where my friend is working in front of a small wooden hut, called a bale, raised on poles and thatched with cogon grass. |
| The first leg of the climb consists of wading through giant cogon grasses on a steep, exposed trail. |
| More rocks, with occasional thermal heat, and thick cogon grasses beckoned as we dragged ourselves up, fatigue starting to catch up. |
