Sad news that an earthquake has hit the Philippines. It's nowhere near where Jamie and Nera are but it's an area that Marilyn and I have visited in the past. I think it was 2008 and we had already visited the country a couple of times. A few members of our Rotary Club were interested so we were deputed to organise a group to visit clubs in Calamba and Santa Rosa. There were four couples altogether and I remember the four men were all called John.
A fellow from Deloraine was already living in Santa Rosa so he took on the task of organising our itinerary and one of the things he arranged was a bus trip to the north of Luzon to see the World Heritage Rice Terraces. It was fantastic. On one of the days we travelled to the town of Sagada where they have a tradition of burying their dead in a cave or hanging from a cliff. It was quite amazing to be standing in the cave surrounded by dozens of wooden coffins, some of which had split open and their bones spilled on the floor. Some coffins had cracks in them and we could see skulls grinning at us through the openings.
The earthquake which is being reported on in the news this week was in an area just north of Sagada. I hope the burial cave wasn't affected.
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