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Hanging from a cliff

Sagada is located in the northernmost region of the Philippines. Found deep within the mountains are the mysterious Hanging Coffins at Echo Valley. The 2,000-year-old Igorot burial tradition has fascinated the world. It is an array of pinewood coffins suspended using primitive wires and ropes along a limestone cliff. The dead assume a fetal position, signifying the Igorot’s belief that souls depart our world the same way they enter it.