Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines June 6, 2018

Lina · July 22, 2018 ·

The next part of our tour was to see the famous hanging coffins of Sagada. We stopped to see more rice terraces and met the gentleman below in native Igorot dress.

This is how the Igorot tribe grows vegetables.

A real Igorot tribesman! He let us take pictures and play along with us.

Mack and the Igorot hamming it up.

His shield was interesting. It was patched with tar

Here’s our Igorot tribesman being interviewed way back in the day.

Igorot traditional dress

Bontoc Museum

Replica of Igorot house

This statue shows how the dead were displayed sitting in a chair for up to a week before burial

Really pretty tree with interesting flowers on the museum grounds

Hiking down to see the hanging coffins, I was surprised to see native pine trees. We are high in the mountains (high for Philippines) at 5,000 ft above sea level

Overlooking the valley on the way to see the coffins

This is it. The coffins everyone takes pictures of.

I think the chair was there because that was the chair used to stage the body

So the reason everyone takes pictures here is because these are the closest coffins you can walk up to. Actually, the valley is littered with coffins hanging off of almost every cliff and tucked into every cave.

Cow cleaning up cemetery

Coolest house in Sagada

It’s an artist’s house. He/she was selling their artwork in the front.

More coffins

Our guide walking ahead of us

Those are coffins not stones

A Sagada street

Outside of our lunch cafe. Reuse of plastic bottles