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Baguio stories

With this lockdown, nature is taking a rest. Skies are brighter. Rivers crystal clear. No garbage in Burnham. Soon we'll enjoy these things. And be more circumspect next time. Love nature and it'll love you back.


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BenCab. Baguio Influential Artist # 1.

BenCab is a famous National Artist that retired in Baguio. During his elementary days, he made a few centavos doing his classmates’ drawing assignments. In high school, he drew portraits of James Dean and Elvis Presley and sold them to schoolmates for 10 pesos. Decades down the way at the peak of his career, his most expensive paintings sold for about a million dollars each. "Paint it and it will come."

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Baguio Cathedral. The pink cathedral

With more than 80 million Catholics, the Philippines has the third-largest Catholic population in the world. No wonder most Baguio tourists flock to this famous pink cathedral. But why pink?

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Baguio Craft Brewery. Homegrown brew.

The city is famous for indigenous coffee. But have you tried it's homegrown beer? Oops, liquor ban.. Watch it n lng ngarud..

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Baguio against the Spaniards.

Did you know that Baguio was the last place the Spaniards ever colonized? They can't go up because of the terrain and of those who did was repelled by the natives. And then a stubborn Conquistadores came..

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