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Philippine mountain town honours dead with fire ceremony on All Saints' Day


Tiny pinewood bonfires burn through the night at a mountain cemetery as the largely Christian Philippines remembers its dead, turning the fog-shrouded hilltop into a vast, fragrant altar of light. The eerie Panag-aapoy (“to light a fire”) ceremony in the tourist town of Sagada has marked All Saints’ Day for the past 122 years.

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