Rickz Laagan: June 2013

The City of Baguio (Ilokano: Ciudad ti Baguio; Filipino: Lungsod ng Baguio) is a highly urbanized city located in the province of Benguet in northern Luzon island of the Philippines. The city has become the center of business and commerce as well as the center of education in the entire Northern Luzon thereby becoming the seat of government of the Cordillera Administrative Region(C.A.R.). According to the 2010 census, Baguio City has a population of 318, 676.

Baguio City was established by the Americans in 1900 at the site of an Ibaloi village known as Kafagway. The name of the city is derived from the word bagiw in Ibaloi, the indigenous language of the Benguet Region, meaning 'moss'. The city is at an altitude of approximately 1,610 metres (5,280 ft) in the Luzon tropical pine forests ecoregion conducive to the growth of mossy plants and orchids.

source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baguio

Lions gate - Kennon Road

From Metro Manila - Passing through NLEX via SCTEX to Tarlac and via Marcos Hi-way to Baguio City. Non stop approximately 5 hours travel time. (private vehicle)

Baguio City - is the Summer Capital of the Philippines because of its cold weather. So prepare for your jacket wherever you go specially at the month of October - March.

I will give some of the City tourist attraction/destinations most visitors do or visit.

Mines View Park - where you can have the over looking view of the mountains. You can also have pictorials on the park like horses, St. Bernard Dogs, and cultural costumes for reasonable price. Plus you can also buy local delecacy food choices, plants, artifacts, bling-blings, cloth, tshirts and other local products.

Mines View

You can see and do horse back riding almost everywhere in Baguio City

Few minutes from this top of Baguio

The Mansion of Baguio

The Mansion House was built in 1908 to serve as the official summer residence of U.S. Governor-Generals at the instance of Governor-GeneralWilliam Cameron Forbes. The name is derived from the summer cottage in New England of Governor Forbes whose administration the original Mansion House was built under. Architect William E. Parsons, based on preliminary plans by architect Daniel H. Burnham, the planner of the city of Baguio, designed the mountain retreat following the tenets of the City Beautiful Movement. In 1910, the meeting of the Second Philippine Legislaturewas held at the Mansion House for three weeks.

The house was badly damaged during the Second World War and was rebuilt in 1947. Since then, it has served as the holiday home and working office for each President of the Philippines during his or her visits to Baguio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mansion,_Baguio

The Mansion

A hundred steps going down from The Mansion

Rent a local tribe costume only P20 =)

The Baguio Botanical Garden

The Bell Church of Baguio

Houses above the hill - Increasing population in Baguio City

Strawberry Farm of Benguet

You can pick strawberries from the garden - per basket (depends on size) range 200 up

All kind of lettuce fresh can be pick and buy with roots

Must try Strawberry Ice Cream

The Philippine Military Academy - You can visit PMA any time of the day (FYI) wearing slippers is not allowed inside the academy.

Boat Ride at Burn Ham Park

Camp Jhon Hay

Baguio Cathedral

Panagbenga Festival (English: Flower Festival) is a month-long annual flower festival occurring in Baguio, the summer capital of the Philippines. The term is ofMalayo-Polynesian origin, meaning "season of blooming". The festival, held during the month of February, was created as a tribute to the city's flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake. The festival includes floats that are decorated with flowers not unlike those used in Pasadena'sRose Parade. The festival also includes street dancing, presented by dancers clad in flower-inspired costumes, that is inspired by the Bendian, an Ibaloi dance of celebration that came from the Cordillera region