Echo Valley and Hanging Coffins in Sagada, Philippines

Echo Valley and Hanging Coffins are the easiest and most accessible spot destination in Sagada. A few minutes of walk from the town proper. You can a lot a minimum of one hour for your itinerary, or it may take long depend on your photo shot and energy going down and up to the Valley.

Going there, we passed on the giant Bell and St. Mary’s Episcopal Church and we also stay for minute to offer a prayer. Before I forgot, we don’t have a guide, but a family ahead of us is very kind enough to share and ask us to join with them J.  Headed straight from the Church and take left lead us to Cemetery uphill. Their white gravestones are in different sizes but smaller than in usual or common cemetery. The atmosphere around give me goose bumps. We stay a minute and offer a moment of silence and prayer for all the departed one buried in the area.

From the cemetery going beyond following the trail, sloping down, until we reach the side of the hill

were we shout out our names and echoed back, that’s way it I was called the Echo Valley. Adjusting a few steps, it was already a viewpoint for the Hanging Coffin below. Far beyond, you could see coffins hanged on the side of the cliff. Be caution in making steps, you may carried away by the view and make a wrong step, you might fall down and get hurt.

After do some shout outs and taking photos at Echo Valley, we descend following again the trail down to get closer to the Hanging Coffins. This time, the family we’ve joined and the guide decided to go back already. All of them don’t have enough energy to go down and up again because they have already a long day from Bomod-ok Falls. It took up about 10-15 minutes going down and reach the side of cliff were the coffins are hanged. We just take a few shots of picture and go back as darkness already meandering the site. 

Going up is an extra challenge, so it took us more time. And it’s almost dark when we got again to St. Mary Church. Then we had bread, to feed our hungry stomach, we bought it from the two kids at the side of the church.