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"Light's Echo" – Zion National Park, Utah

Hanging coffins in Echo Valley, Sagada.

These coffins are carved by the elderly before they die. This ritual involves pushing the bodies into the tight spaces of the coffins, and often bones are cracked and broken as the process is completed.
After the deceased are put inside these coffins they are then brought to caves high in the cliffs where they join the coffins of other ancestors.
The people of Sagada have been doing this for over 2000 years.

NASA originally shared this post:

A time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011.

Original Link: http://vimeo.com/32001208

Credits Editing: Michael König; Music: Jan Jelinek – Do Dekor (Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records)

Hótel Keilir

Hafnargata, Reykjanesbaer, Iceland

View from the company apartment in Gamla Stan, Stockholm.

Akureyri, Norðurland eystra