woke up around 6am the next day. I saw the "Lost Girls" preparing to leave for Baguio. Jaza was already up and prepared their cup noodles breakfast. I told them that I could meet them later around 7:30am at the Municipal Hall as I would roam around and have my breakfast outside.
Unusual Cemetary
Saturday is Market Day in Sagada. It was amusing to see all those vendors lined up at the sides of the Major Road of Sagada. Aside from the usual fish, meat and vegetables, there were also hardware supplies, electronics, ukay-ukay clothes, as well as pirated VCDs and Audio. I bought a banana-q and a kareoka as breakfast while I walk around. I went to the Town Chapel which is small but with a nice simple architecture. In front of the Chapel is the large Bell with the Sagada sign. I'm not sure if this is the one they ring every night at 9pm to signal the town folks to go back to their homes. Yes they have a curfew in Sagada, no one is allowed to roam at night after 9pm. I wanted to look for the cemetery but I have to go back to meet the guys before 7:30am.
I went back to the Inn to get my Tripod, just in time for the "Valdez" couple to come out of their rooms. I explained to them our route in the map. My plan was to go around the western portion of Sagada, passing by the Echo Valley, Kiltepan Rice Terraces, Bomod-Ok and Bokong Falls. I was standing in front of the information window in the Municipal Hall to get a guide when a girl, slim and almost as tall as me, wearing sunglasses, approached and asked if by chance we were going to Bomod-ok Falls. I told her our plan and she was ok with that. I consulted with the Valdez couple, and they were ok with it since the more we are, the lesser on individual cost.
So now there's new company (not their real names) Tim, Kate, Rin and the two guys who I forgot their names, along with our young guide, Chris. Our first stop was Echo Valley. Our route was to pass by the chapel then the Cemetery. The cemetery was kind of unusual as the tombstones were of different sizes and there was no order in which the graves are placed. Come to think of it, this way of burying their dead was quite new to them. Before, they place their coffins inside caves or they hang them by cliff walls, but when the Christian missionaries came, their way of life somehow changed.
