Batad is the village inside the most spectacular section of the Banaue rice terraces — an amphitheatre of stone-walled paddies climbing the inside of a natural bowl in the mountains. To reach it you drive an hour from Banaue town to the saddle, then walk twenty to forty minutes down a stone path to the village. Cars cannot enter; everything is carried in or out by foot. There is no electricity grid worth speaking of and the village is run on solar and small generators.
A handful of simple guesthouses sit on the rim of the amphitheatre with views straight down across the terraces. Most people stay one or two nights — long enough to walk down through the paddies, swim at Tappiya Falls (a steep further hour beyond the village), and watch the sunrise from the saddle. The Tappiya hike is genuinely demanding: 600 steps down on the way out, the same back, on uneven stone in places. Wear proper shoes. Local guides at the saddle are required for the Tappiya walk and worth taking even if they were not.