The Chinese cemetery, located in the suburb of Santa Cruz about 4 km north of Manila's Chinatown, is a town for the dead that comes with streets and ostentatious tombs built in the form of houses, many of them with furniture, running water and even air conditioning.
Every Sunday and especially on All Saints Day (November 1), the local Chinese come to honour their dead. Lavish feasts are arranged and the relatives sit around the table playing mahjong games (an empty chair is left for the departed one).
The Chinese cemetery is worth a visit. The live-in caretakers will offer to show you around for a fee.
