Flavors of Baguio tour: New way to enjoy the summer capital
C Boutique Hotel, a new place to stay in Baguio, teams up with the blog site Our Awesome Planet to offer a new way to enjoy the country’s summer capital.
C Boutique Hotel, a new place to stay in Baguio, teams up with the blog site Our Awesome Planet to offer a new way to enjoy the country’s summer capital.
Catching a cold is no fun. Everyone tells me it is the aftermath of a week well spent in Baguio, where the weather was, putting it mildly, delicious. Getting back to above 34-degree temperatures must have done me in.
It’s too hot to do anything these days. It’s pointless to shop for clothes because what you want to do is throw them off. The mall cafés are full of people nursing one iced tea for hours to sit out the heat.
Let a hundred flowers bloom. Let a hundred schools of thought, este, schools of festival floats, contend. It is the time of year for Panagbenga— Baguio City’s annual flower festival—when the city’s officials, civic leaders, residents and students link up, forget the problems of urban decay, informal settlers and eroded mountains, and produce a rousing show which has become a bestseller of the summer capital.
On a recent trip to Baguio City, my friends and I had, for our first meal, a dish of wild rice. With its variety of textures and flavors, the dish was not only a real palate tickler, it also became a conversation piece.
Baguio and I are not what we used to be, God knows. We’re both showing evidence of progressive abuse and neglect—denudation, for one thing. And for one who has lived as long as I, it’s definitely no small consolation that Baguio, as I, if I may carry on with the comparison, has remained loved.
The Yuletide season officially started at The Manor with a recent Christmas lighting ceremony at the resort hotel’s Manor Garden. Dubbed as “Magical Christmas,” the event was hailed by Manor executives, led by German managing director Heinrich Maulbecker, as the first of its kind in the Baguio-based hotel’s young history.
The pines of Baguio are like family. They have been steady through the seasons and through the ups and downs of life.
Even before the Department of Tourism proclaimed that “it’s more fun in the Philippines,” Filipinos had been upbeat about traveling around the country. With promo fares every now and then and various websites offering do-it-yourself tours, discovering the country has become more inexpensive and effortless.
At UP High in Padre Faura, after the war, we read Shakespeare, notably Hamlet, which, like all the bard’s plays, teems with memorable passages like the soliloquies and lines from the dialogue, as when Hamlet tells his stoic friend, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” This, after the ghost scene.
Welcome to the mountains!” said The Manor managing director Heinrich Maulbecker, by way of greeting the Manila trimedia who came over that weekend for the Panagbenga, upon the invitation of The Manor at Camp John Hay.
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