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Echo Valley Hanging Coffins

TIME : 2016/2/17 15:52:13

Sagada's most popular attractions are the hanging coffins of Echo Valley: some are centuries old, others were put there recently. Most are high up the sheer rock face, leading you to wonder how it was originally done. It's a short trek (P300); it takes less than half an hour to get down to the coffins via the overgrown trail that runs by the cemetery, but people do get lost without a guide.

The chairs, also attached to the rock face, are the funereal chairs that the bodies were originally strapped to during a traditional burial; the smallest coffins are the ones which accommodated the bodies laid out in foetal position.