Bencab Museum

It's a sunny morning and my sissy and I both agreed yesterday that by hook or by crook we'll visit bencab museum (asin road) today 'cuz we've been yearning to do that since our last vacation here in baguio last August. We're just so squeamish to have coffee at the onsite cafeteria called cafe isabel  but it was so packed when we got there so we needed to cross that out from our list.

Baguio marketplace...

As soon as we saw the jeepneys bound to asin road km. 6,  we immediately hopped in without asking anyone where the hell the jeep is headed and we're willing to take our chance regardless. The woman asked me (in local dialect) something and since i don't speak their language i was lost in translation hadn't this other local woman asked me in tagalog where we're headed. I told her we're off to bencab km. 6, the lady said the jeep is not headed that way as it's headed uphill and bencab is downhill. So, we immediately stepped out and just decided to take the cab to BenCab (wow that rhymed). We thought asin road is just few kilometers away just and realized we were wrong again and the was quite far. Good thing, there were signs along the road that led us to bencab since the cab driver wasn't so familiar with BenCab neither. The lady in the reception was foreigner and told us that there's a Php100 entrance fee which we're already aware of based on our research. As soon as we're inside we then scoured the entire museum and took photos. The artworks were really amazing since we also draw and paint ourselves so we did not go there just to solely take photos but meticulously check out the murals and awesome wood carvings. We frenzied over each and every painting adorning the white walls of the museum, art at its finest.


We were drawn to this wooden statue made by an artist Junyee. It was a male life-sized carving from recycled wood with red paint all over it's face and body adorned with tribal tattoos. The sculpture's teeth is all black which represents the igorot's fondness with 'nganga' (chewing of betelnut). Attached at the back of the wooden sculpture is a computer motherboard, how cool is that? After checking out all the artworks, we decided to have lunch at cafe isabel. we noticed that there's only one person at the counter  and it will take long for everyone else to be accommodated so we instead decided to have lunch downtown and as usual it was crowded.