This slightly eerie but graceful view of wooden coffins hanging on the cliff faces in Sagada, Mountain Province tell of the rich culture of their tribe. The high placing of their dead is because of the belief that it would be a ‘vessel to heaven’, as well as for practical reasons, such as avoiding animals getting to the corpses

Name: Hanging Coffins of Sagada

Lat, Long: 17.0817976,120.9058866

Location: Mountain Province, Philippines

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