Baguio City

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Panagbenga Festival (Flower Festival) in Baguio City

Camp John Hay (Manor House)

Known as the "City of Pines", Baguio City is located about 250 kilometers north of the Philippine capital of Manila. It sits high on the Cordillera Mountain Ranges on a plateau roughly 1,500 meters above sea level. It is located in the central north of the main island of Luzon.

Tourists’ attractions here can be categorized into five attractions:

Natural Attractions
Asin hot springs - A swimming pool surrounded by thermal springs with hanging bridges and vegetation.
Mount Sto. Tomas - Climb to the peak (elev. 75000) to catch an impressive view of the sea, valley, and mountains.

Man-made Attractions
Burnham Park - The oldest of all Baguio Parks.
Botanical Gardens - also known as the Igorot (ethnic group of people of the Cordillera region) village.
Camp John Hay - Used to be an American base.
Mines View - It is where Baguio’s mineral bowl where gold, silver and other ores were once quarried
e. Wright Park- Pine tree park reserve

Historical Attractions
Philippine Military Academy - the Philippine’s premiere military institution
Mansion House
Teacher’s Camp
Kennon Road - named after Col. Lyman W. Kennon who was its final builder.

Religious attractions
Bell Church - a cluster of temples located on the boarder of Baguio city and Trinidad valley.
Lourdes Grotto - a religious shrine housing the image of the Our Lady of Lourdes. Pilgrims have to take the 252 steps that lead to this shrine.
Baguio Cathedral

Cultural Attractions
Woodcarvers village
Sain Louis Filigree shop

Aside from these tourists’ attractions, Baguio city is also known from its strawberry farm and beautiful vegetation of fruits and foliage of flowers.


Accomodations
Baguio has 38 hotels, 6 resorts, plus 75 other lodging and retreat houses. These numbers do not include those private homes that let out rooms to supply the great demand for rooms in during peak months. So it only says that there are a lot of places to choose from where you can stay.

What to wear
Don’t forget to wear thick clothing when you go to Baguio city because the average temperature there is from 15- 26˚C, and it can drop down to 8˚C from December to early February

Access
NLEX-SCTEX
From Manila take the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX). Enter at Balintawak, pay the the last tollgate (Dau), and exit at the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX), which is right past the Dau Exit. Upon entering SCTEX, take the first right at the fork (going straight will lead you to Subic), and drive the length of the SCTEX, exiting at the Tarlac City exit.

MacARTHUR HIGHWAY
Turn left from SCTEX to get to the Tarlac City exit (read about other SCTEX exits here) and proceed for about 10km using a country road, until you reach MacArthur Highway, where you will again turn right. Pass through the remaining four towns of Tarlac province, and the length of Pangasinan province, making no turns, till you reach Rosario, La Union.

References: Baguio Website




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