Baguio City is known for its cold and foggy climate and abundance of pine trees. It is where I grew up and stayed for almost twelve to thirteen years until we transferred to Manila. Its name “Baguio” was derived from Ibaloi, one of its dialect languages, which mean to be “moss”. Because of its cool and
foggy climate, Baguio was made to be the Summer Capital of the Philippines.
Baguio has a lot of tourism spots, when I was a little girl my dad takes me to Wright park, where I enjoy horseback riding. Burnham Park is famous of its boating, biking, and children’s playground where my cousins and I usually go every weekend. Session Road is our main hangout even before SM Baguio was built. It consists of shops, restaurants, malls, and hotels.
One of my favorite things in Baguio is their fiesta that is celebrated every whole month of February. This fiesta is known as Panagbenga or Baguio Flower festival. The fiesta is mostly held in Session road where parade of Native Dances and Colorful Floats are shown. Bazaar sales are also held especially every weekend where souvenirs, fresh flowers, and other unique things are sold which is considered as a peak season for the tourists. My family and I always wanted to go out and watch the festival and sometimes taking pictures of the colorful coral floats. Activities such as mini landscape exhibit, battle of the bands, and other events are also held within the month.
Ube and strawberry jam is one of my favorite sweets in Baguio mostly they are made and bought in the Good Shepherd covenant. However many of these products such as ube jam, strawberry jam, peanut brittle are sold in different stalls in Baguio. Since we are currently living in Laguna we used to buy strawberry and ube jams to give to our friends and classmates. And also the strawberry fields are the one of the most visited places in Baguio. Tourists and visitors get to pick and taste the strawberries and take pictures from the fields. But sadly with my thirteen years of stay I never been there.
Thanks for sharing this.Hope to read more of your hometown :)
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