Philippines Travel Destinations: Baguio

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Sunday

Baguio

Cafe' Ruins

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Baguio

Baguio City

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Friday

BenCab Muse um, housing the works of Filipino National Artist for Visual Arts Benedicto Cabrera, opened early this year. The museum, named after the artist, is located in Tadiangan, Tuba, Benguet, and is a four-storey, contemporary structure that sits on top of a hill, offering a view of a river and a waterfall. The museum’s BenCab Gallery showcases the artist’s works covering four decades starting in the 60s in Manila, in the 70s when the artist lived in London and in the 80s when he came back to the Philippines and settled in Baguio and the Cordilleras, places that grew dear to him.

The Cordillera Gallery houses the artist’s collection of tribal artifacts and crafts from the northern Philippine highlands such as bulols or rice gods, functional carved objects, baskets, and indigenous weapons. The Philippine Contemporary Gallery showcases his paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures; and the Maestro Gallery features selected works of Filipino masters such as Jose Joya, Arturo Luz, Vitorio Edades, among others.

BenCab Museum

The BenCab Museum is a project of the BenCab Art Foundation, a nonstock, non-profit organization aimed at promoting the arts, and preserving and protecting the environment and the culture and traditions of the Cordilleras. Open from Tuesday to Sunday from 9am-5pm. For more information, visit www.bencabmuseum.org. For inquiries and guided tours, call +6374/ 442 7165 or e-mail bencabmuseum@gmail.com.

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Thursday

Baguio

T a l e S o f t h e u n k n o w n

The Dominican Hill

Every place has its haunted stories and Baguio City, known for its cool climate, pine trees and green lung has its fair share.The city’s Laperal White House, located on Leonard Wood Road in Baguio, is a popular stopover point for the curious. The substantial house was built in the 1920’s by one of Baguio’s oldest clans, the Laperal family. At the height of World War II, the Japanese took over the house, using it as accommodation for its soldiers. It is said the owners of the house died in the hands of the Japanese. One of the last Laperals to live in the house was Roberto Laperal, said to have died in the house after slipping and hitting his head. There are media accounts saying the old man can still be heard walking around the house. Another story tells of an unidentified young girl sometimes spotted on the steps of the White House. The house’s infamy didn’t dissuade tycoon Lucio Tan from buying the house in 2007 and refurbishing it, but strangely enough, upon completion, the house remained unoccupied.

Victory Liner’s deluxe buses operate daily services to Baguio from its Pasay Terminal. Baguio Country Club, which is at the forefront of marketing Baguio, is introducing adventure package tours. Call +6374/ 619 2050-64 or visit www.bcc.com.ph for more information.

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Baguio

Balatoc BenCab Museum Gold Mine Tour

The Balatoc Gold Mine Tour gives visitors glimpse into Baguio’s historical past as one of the most mineral rich areas of the country. You’ll have to don rubber boots, helmet and chapa (the pressed metal ID tag all miners wore) to go underground, riding in the miners’ locomotive train about half a kilometer into the mountain. Balatoc is located in Itogon, Benguet, about half-an-hour’s ride outside Baguio. The tour takes about two hours, costs P250 per person.

BenCab Museum

Newly opened Bencab

Museum, at Km 6 on Asin Road, is top of many museum goers’ ‘best museum’ lists. National Artist Benedicto Cabrera, a Baguio resident for over 30 years, has put together over seven galleries, installations and awe-inspiring architecture nestled among rice terraces and native Cordilleran houses. This may be the only art gallery you’ll ever visit that has ducks on the company payroll, and a mountain creek rushing through the property. URL: www. bencabmuseum.org; +6374/ 442 7165.

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Baguio

Favorite of local and foreign tourists. There are artworks on the walls, a stone ato (the meeting place for Igorot tribes’ elders to chew the fat), and bamboo-slatted walls. Try gado gado (Indonesian dish with tofu and peanut sauce on top of fresh greens), Aunt Cecile’s chicken adobo and chocolate rice porridge served with smoked fish. Strawberry season (from November to February) is a good time to visit to try the strawberry vinaigrette salad dressing, strawberry desserts and fresh strawberry juice. 23 Chuntug; +6374/ 4464010; www.cafebytheruins.com.ph.

Horse Back Riding @ Camp John Hay

Since most people making the trek up to Baguio want open spaces, pine trees and cool, clean mountain air, why not go back to where it all started? Visit camp John Hay Historical core (www.geocities.com/johnhayhistory/ main.htm) and learn about Baguio’s roots while leisurely wandering around some of the most well preserved pine forests in the city. Plan ahead, and bring a picnic lunch and a blanket and have a memorable lunch at the century old Amphitheater.

S.O.u.L. (‘Spice Of urban Life’) café, while technically not in Baguio (it’s at Camp One in Rosario, La Union, on the highway immediately before the turn up into the mountains on Kennon Road; +6372/ 7120852), is an ideal pit stop for drivers needing to recharge for their journey from Manila to Baguio. Heck, even if S.O.U.L. was in the most far-off, inconvenient location, it would still merit a pilgrimage, with dishes like osso buco (beef shank boiled and baked for four hours), kalua pork with lomi salmon (a Hawaiian recipe with smoked ham slow roasted in apit with sea salt) and the tasty salpicao pasta, all averaging about P200 each. Wash it down with a glass of kiwi lemonade or a cup of civet cat coffee, in relaxing surroundings.

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