SUBSCRIBESagada: Coffins
Echo Valley, just below the town’s cemetery is a fascinating place to go. Not only are there caves, but the major drawer there are the hanging coffins suspended a few feet from the ground as well as burial caves.
A portion of the famous hanging coffins showing the “death chair.” In previous times, the tribespeople usually place their dead in these chairs for a few weeks before being transferred to the coffins. With the influence of Christianity, these practices dwindled but is still being observed in some remote villages.
A few meters before reaching the hanging coffins, one can observe this cave a hundred feet from the ground stacked with coffins.
Just above the big cave a little further past the hanging coffins, this burial cave can easily be missed if one is not observant enough. Its a feat to bring these caskets into this cave considering that it was located very high from the ground.
