Baguio City and Benguet Province

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[zeekrom]

wohooo! very crowded session road! looks like panagbenga festival fyi, it's only SLU's lantern parade..hehehe..


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...id=93633873713


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...50106074728714


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...50106074733714

[Naga City Deck]

proud to be an alumni too

Photo by Rhodyl Ambloza

[zeekrom]

Baguio City Panorama



foggy afternoon Dec-14-10@SM City Baguio

[zeekrom]

Saint Louis University












Panoramic view of Silang Bldg, Burgos Gym and CCA Theater
9:00am Dec-12-2010

[pangasinense ak]

congrats baguio city thread 3,ang dami kong kababayan dyan mga koreano hehehhe.

[Dante_54]

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Pwede din po ako maka share sainyo mga taga- Baguio City?

[Fraulein]

Originally Posted by zeekrom

wohooo! very crowded session road! looks like panagbenga festival fyi, it's only SLU's lantern parade..hehehe..


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...id=93633873713


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...50106074728714


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...50106074733714

Grabe, nandyan ako nung maraming tao sa Session Road. Hindi kami makadaan sa sobrang sikip. Kakain lang kami sa may Sizzling Plate. Nadisappoint ang mga bata dahil na imbes na artificial snow, soap suds or bubbles and nilabas...

[hugodiekonig]

[hugodiekonig]

Parang yung Insular Building sa Ottawa, Canada


Sunshine Park


To Maryhurst

[hugodiekonig]

People's Support Building - parang sa Insular Life Building sa Ottawa, Canada

[kilabot]

Hi Everyone,

My apologies in advance. I have no intentions of hijacking this thread. This is obviously the wrong place for this want ad but I thought I'd give it a try...

3 friends are planning on spending 2 weeks in Baguio sometime mid-January. Anyone know of a good fully furnished (w/ hot and cold water) house, condo unit or apartment for rent?
Budget is around P1,000 to P1,500 per day for 3 people..?

Any leads would be highly appreciated.

Pls. send me a PM.

Maraming-maraming salamat and Merry Christmas to everyone!

[QatPhils]

Greetings mga taga Baguio at Cordillera.
Merry Christmas!

This thread needs more activity and updating.

200,000 tourists flock to Baguio for a cold Christmas
abs-cbnNEWS.com
Posted at 12/25/2010 1:37 PM | Updated as of 12/25/2010 1:42 PM

MANILA, Philippines - Baguio City is no longer just the summer capital of the Philippines as 200,000 tourists have made it their favorite destination this Christmas time.

The cold temperature in Baguio has been attracting many people to flock to the mountain resort city, and families have been seen going around wearing thick jackets.

It was 12.4 degrees Celsius in Baguio City last December 9, the coldest temperature this year. Weather forecasters expect colder days up ahead as the "hanging amihan" or cold breeze at this time becomes even stronger.

Visitors have also come for the parade of giant lanterns or parol, the "snow" show, and the dazzling twinkling Christmas lights along the city's main street, Session Road.
Burnham Park is one of the major tourist spots in Baguio.

Hotels and inns are fully booked, according to the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Baguio. They also said this year's tourist arrivals for Christmas surpassed expectations.

As a result, it's crowded in the city's tourist spots, as well as places such as the public market. Aside from the tourists, locals also flocked to the market to prepare for their Noche Buena with their families last night.

Tourism officials are happy over the increasing number of tourists in the city as this means the country's economy is improving. It may be recalled that the number of tourists in the past went down due to natural calamities that came one after the other, among them, typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng last year.

Baguio City police are on the alert especially in crowded areas, as petty crimes also abound when tourist arrivals are up. The police have issued a warning to the public to be extra careful these days. -- Report from Dhobie de Guzman, ABS-CBN News

[hugodiekonig]

Originally Posted by kilabot

Hi Everyone,

My apologies in advance. I have no intentions of hijacking this thread. This is obviously the wrong place for this want ad but I thought I'd give it a try...

3 friends are planning on spending 2 weeks in Baguio sometime mid-January. Anyone know of a good fully furnished (w/ hot and cold water) house, condo unit or apartment for rent?
Budget is around P1,000 to P1,500 per day for 3 people..?

Any leads would be highly appreciated.

Pls. send me a PM.

Maraming-maraming salamat and Merry Christmas to everyone!

Please read my Private message. Thanks! I hope I could help you

[victorlachica]

Originally Posted by hugodiekonig

Please read my Private message. Thanks! I hope I could help you

Hi

I am also interested, for the coming holy week. thanks

[hugodiekonig]

December 28, 2010, 7:36pm

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines (PNA) — This mountain resort reeled from various tragedies this year but still managed to recover, riding on its flourishing tourism industry.

Baguio exceeded its target of one million visitors in 2010 based on the periodic raw monitoring data of the city tourism office.

City tourism officer Benedicto Alhambra confirmed that most visitors came during the "Panagbenga" (Flower Festival) last February, the summer months of March and April, and during this Yuletide Season.

The reinvigorated cleanliness program and peace and order improvement under the new administration of City Mayor Mauricio Domogan plus the pursuit of all calendared tourism activities in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) played key roles in the arrival of more than two million tourists regionwide.

As "father of Baguio's clean and green", Domogan immediately restored beauty and cleanliness in his first week of office.

Baguio spent more than P300 million in the past few years just to haul its solid wastes to the Tarlac engineered sanitary landfill.

Starting next year, however, the more than P128-million engineered sanitary system (ERS) of the city will properly handle its 166 tons of solid wastes daily, 66 tons of which will be turned into organic fertilizer.

The rest of the wastes will be handled by some 100 garbage segregators or scavengers whose livelihood will be enhanced with a rate of one peso for every kilo of segregated recyclables and residuals.

The parks have been spruced up not only for the holiday season but also during the arrival of more than 300 foreign amateur golfers who found Baguio to be the same cool city that they have known for years with an average temperature of 14 to 23 degrees celsius as well as peaceful, clean, beautiful and orderly.

The year 2010 also saw a great improvement in water production by the Baguio Water District (BWD) headed by its general manager Teresita de Guzman.

The rehabilitated deep wells and pumping stations, excluding the rain basin in Mount Santo Tomas, now have an aggregate output of 1.2 million cubic meters a month.

Unlike before, even during summer this year, there was a steady supply of potable water in this 49-square kilometer city whose population of almost half-a-million could swell into almost one million during important events.

Meanwhile, the district office of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) had implemented 22 infrastructure rehabilitation projects this year.

The projects worth P121 million were mostly directed at those destroyed by typhoons "Pepeng" and "Juan".

Baguio and suburbs were not spared by natural and man-made tragedies in 2010.

The road mishaps here, immediate vicinity and the rest of Benguet Province claimed more than 70 lives and millions of pesos worth of properties.

It was in the early morning of August 18, 2010 when a mini-bus bound to La Union plunged into a ravine after hitting a roadside house. Forty two people were killed in the incident, 39 of them instantly.

The rest of the fatalities were victims of road accidents where all vehicles plunged into deep ravines in the province with rugged terrain. These happened in Benguet towns like Tuba, Itogon, Tublay, Atok and Buguias.

The year is also remembered as the period when only one typhoon directly hit the region but which had a strength of more than 220 kilometers per hour.

Super typhoon "Juan" left six persons dead in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), a far cry from the more than 300 during typhoon "Pepeng".

The minimal impact of the super typhoon on the lives of Cordillerans was attributed to both national and local government's response as well as their effective preemptive or anti-disaster measures like forced evacuations.

Kalinga was the worst hit by typhoon Juan. It affected 37,009 families, 321 of which totally lost their houses.

The year also registered for the region one of the worst drought periods in history. More than P300 million worth of agricultural crops and livestock were lost from February to May this year when the El Niño phenomenon was felt in this area.

Generally, however, the sustained development which spelled the growth of the various sectors like mining, agriculture, manufacturing and services outweighed the effects of the tragedies.

For the people of the Cordilleras, they can still restore the lost livelihood and homes because of their will to survive. Much more, they remain optimistic that with the new leadership of the country, 2011 shall offer them better days ahead.

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/295270...h-note-tourism

Go Baguio!

[saintm]

eto pala yun

[saintm]

Municipality of La Trinidad, Benguet
located in Km. 5, Pico, La Trinidad, Benguet (in front of Rang-ay Bank La Trinidad branch)