Baguio, aside from the summer capital of the country is also home to parks, botanical gardens and a lot of unexplored secret hideaways, a great escape from the busy urban life. i love ample time off from work; it sort of recharges me and changes my outlook in life as soon as i get back to work. it makes me realize how simple things in this world is able to bring little joy in people's hearts. like a walk in a park, sitting in a bench whilst savouring the cool wind breeze coming from the pine trees.
day 02
me and my sister took a short bus ride for Php20 to the city and then another cabbie ride to camp john hay. honestly, although we've been staying in baguio since college days, we have not been to camp john hay. yeah, it's weird because from session road it's just a cab ride away. the cab driver drop us off in mile-hi (cjh's shopping center sort of). we told the driver to drive us off to the cemetery of negativism but for some reason it appeared like he's not aware th
e place exist. so, we decided to just walk around since the cjh is such a beautiful places due to the american looking town houses surrounding the area. i decided to ask this guy in a hotel uniform where the hell the cemetery is located since we won't risk walking around having no idea where to go. he told just it's just a few walks away and as soon as we see the steep stairs that's it. the instruction was pretty vague but we both managed to find the lone yellow stairway to the park. the park itself was a haven, the pine trees swayed in unison. we saw this little playground while looking for the cemetery and took the swing like we're little kids. we miss riding a swing since the last time wedid was waynback kindegarten.
~cemetery of negativism
we paid P30 for the entrance fee, we wondered why since it was such a small place. not much to offer except for the silly tombs lol. it looked more like a pet cemetery. we took photos of each and every tomb there was and it was a cool place, unusual but cool.
~bell amphitheatre
afterwards we further and found the bell amphitheatre. hyundai will be hosting an event that afternoon in the amphitheatre. how we wished it was a rock concert so we could've stay a little late.
~bell house
we never knew who mr. bell was but we were told by the construction workers around that we could get inside the house, never mind the renovation. we found this huge wooden statue of a naked igorot woman in the veranda which was about 7 ft. tall. it was quite spook inside because it was dimly lighted. our digital camera kept flickering on its own as we take pictures on the hallway so right before we got to the master's bedroom we decided to leave because i told my sister we might be disturbing unseen inhabitants lol.
~history trail
few more walks and we reached the history trail. as we're about to leave, the park coordinator offered to take our pictures near the bell house, right next to the totem pole. he told us that he's been seeing us walking around and on top of that he thought we're part of the hyundai event. we told him where we're from and what took us in baguio, which is primarily just to unwind. he led us back to the bell house so we were able to take more pictures.
walking around camp john hay will make you sweat out but will not completely tire you because of the cold weather. after hours of taking pictures, we headed off to mile-hi again and checked out the souvenir items. they were pretty expensive, a bag which you could buy for less than P500 they sell it for P700! since i haven't been to the mansion i told my sister to take another cab bound to the mansion. we weren't able to come inside because the president was there during our visit.
day 02
me and my sister took a short bus ride for Php20 to the city and then another cabbie ride to camp john hay. honestly, although we've been staying in baguio since college days, we have not been to camp john hay. yeah, it's weird because from session road it's just a cab ride away. the cab driver drop us off in mile-hi (cjh's shopping center sort of). we told the driver to drive us off to the cemetery of negativism but for some reason it appeared like he's not aware th
e place exist. so, we decided to just walk around since the cjh is such a beautiful places due to the american looking town houses surrounding the area. i decided to ask this guy in a hotel uniform where the hell the cemetery is located since we won't risk walking around having no idea where to go. he told just it's just a few walks away and as soon as we see the steep stairs that's it. the instruction was pretty vague but we both managed to find the lone yellow stairway to the park. the park itself was a haven, the pine trees swayed in unison. we saw this little playground while looking for the cemetery and took the swing like we're little kids. we miss riding a swing since the last time wedid was waynback kindegarten. ~cemetery of negativism
we paid P30 for the entrance fee, we wondered why since it was such a small place. not much to offer except for the silly tombs lol. it looked more like a pet cemetery. we took photos of each and every tomb there was and it was a cool place, unusual but cool.
~bell amphitheatre
afterwards we further and found the bell amphitheatre. hyundai will be hosting an event that afternoon in the amphitheatre. how we wished it was a rock concert so we could've stay a little late.
~bell house
we never knew who mr. bell was but we were told by the construction workers around that we could get inside the house, never mind the renovation. we found this huge wooden statue of a naked igorot woman in the veranda which was about 7 ft. tall. it was quite spook inside because it was dimly lighted. our digital camera kept flickering on its own as we take pictures on the hallway so right before we got to the master's bedroom we decided to leave because i told my sister we might be disturbing unseen inhabitants lol.
~history trail
few more walks and we reached the history trail. as we're about to leave, the park coordinator offered to take our pictures near the bell house, right next to the totem pole. he told us that he's been seeing us walking around and on top of that he thought we're part of the hyundai event. we told him where we're from and what took us in baguio, which is primarily just to unwind. he led us back to the bell house so we were able to take more pictures.
walking around camp john hay will make you sweat out but will not completely tire you because of the cold weather. after hours of taking pictures, we headed off to mile-hi again and checked out the souvenir items. they were pretty expensive, a bag which you could buy for less than P500 they sell it for P700! since i haven't been to the mansion i told my sister to take another cab bound to the mansion. we weren't able to come inside because the president was there during our visit.
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