Currently, the village is quite a bit bigger than that: the newer touristy stuff like restaurants and guest houses popped into existence around the area from which I took the picture. Like Banaue, Batad consists mostly of corrugated metal shacks - if this continues, I'll be leaving the Philippines with sore eyes from looking at too many ugly houses ;-)
Batad is only 17 km from Banaue, but the trip there took more than two hours. The first 12 km took about an hour on a tricycle. Only two thirds of the road were paved, and the rest was a badly potholed dirt road. From there, the road was in an even worse condition, definitely too bad for tricycles, so I had to hike uphill for about 40 minutes. After this, the road stopped altogether, being replaced by a narrow and steep footpath that led down to Batad in another 40 minutes. This means that there is no car access to the village of Batad. Everything the village needs from the outside - construction materials, food, soft drinks for tourists - has to be brought in on foot. I met several men carrying long metal rods and heavy sacks with cement during my hike to the village and back.
This is another, more complete view of the Batad rice terraces:
