Last weekend I had an interesting experience, A friend of mine wanted to go visit her father who has been buried in one of Manila’s best know cemeteries, North GreenHills.
From the Makati city to Mandaluyong City it took most of 90 minutes to traverse the Friday morning traffic. Upon arrival you are greeted with vendors selling everything from candles to flowers.
We eventually found the road that her father is supposed to be buried near. This is where it gets interesting.
Her father is in a tomb that is considered a condominium. In the Philippines space is at a premium so the dead are stacked on top of each other if you don’t have enough money to actually buy a plot of land.
To get to the tomb we had to walk a distance. This included something I and most westerners have never done, walk between tombs and if necessary on top of them to get to a stairway that allows you to get to the tombs that are stacked on top of each other.
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