Sagada, Philippines snapshots

    photos made in 2008 and 2009 in the towns

    Sagada and Suyo in Mountain Province, Luzon, Philippines

    suyo-rooster

    rooster in Suyo

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    suyo-panorama

    view of Suyo from a rice paddy near the river

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    suyo-kids

    Suyo’s kids were curious about me

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    riding a jeepney to Sagada from Bontoc

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    Sagada Home Stay-window

    a Sagada Guest House southern view of downtown Sagada

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    weather-beaten limestone of Sagada

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    bluff-echo-valley

    I’d like to have a vacation home atop this bluff overlooking the north end of Echo Valley.  -what a view from the top –  The one on the left was being built.

    a river flows underground from North to South and emerges in Echo Valley

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    Brian in Sagada's Echo Valley

    I enjoyed hiking the length of Echo Valley

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    craggy limestone spires

    more craggy, eroded limestone in Sagada, south of Echo Valley

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    five or more coffins strapped to rock face

    From a distance one might see coffins strapped to a niche in limestone south of  Echo Valley

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    observation is easier in afternoon light

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    rather uninteresting snapshot of Sagada, Mountain Province — from Sagada Guest House

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    When in Sagada, I enjoyed delicious ‘mountain tea’ in cafés

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    coffins in Echo Valley

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    approaching Lumiang Cave in Echo Valley

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    entrance to Lumiang Cave

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    white slope is where coffins slid down into cave during earthquake

    mouth of  Lumiang Cave in afternoon light

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    coffins stacked in Sugong Cave

    carved-log coffins stacked high in Lumiang Cave

    coffins stacked at south wall of Sugong Cave

    sugong cave in Sagada, Mountain Province

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    Skull in Sugong coffin

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    Sugong coffin in Sagada, Mountain Province

    A guide told me that this is a coffin of a chief  (because two lizards were carved in the lid)

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    caribao and farmers beside the river in Suyo


    coffins in the south of Echo Valley

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    This coffin had fallen and was open to the weather and leaves and twigs falling

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    Beside it were a skull and bones which had likely spilled from the coffin

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    I wondered how the end of this coffin was opened
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    Notice that the skull is perched precariously at the near end
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    Did nature just weather and erode the end of the coffin? Or did a vandal/thief pry it off?
    A case can be made for carving coffins from logs, rather than assembling them from boards and nails which rust.
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    cows near Mount Ampucao

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    exiting Sumaging Cave

    entrance to Sumaging Cave (the ‘big cave’)

    Sumaging Cave stalactites

    Sumaging Cave

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    Dennis (below) and Pete guide Korean and American tourists

    Korean tourists, guides and I spelunking in Sumaging Cave

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    limestone curtains

    lousy, grainy photo from first visit to King’s Curtain in Sumaging Cave

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    waterfall several feet long

    King’s Curtain calcite formation in Sumaging cave

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    King's Curtain

    King’s Curtain

    teeth formation in limestone

    All these calcite formations and the smells made Sumaging Cave exploring an ‘otherworldly’ experience

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    pools of water in limestone

    We enjoyed wading and swimming in very cool pools of water hundreds of feet below ground

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    emerging from Sumaging Cave

    emerging from Sumaging Cave at the south end, near Sagada Cave Man store

    Yankees Abroad - Brian McKay in Sagada, Mountain Province

    See also the weblog posts which mention Sagada, including this: (click here)

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