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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Asin Hot Springs. Hot enough to boil an egg?
Tourists go to Baguio for the cool weather. Baguio folks go here for a hot dip.
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50’s Diner. Typical American.
My first favorite Baguio resto. Until I discovered Good Taste. And then Teahouse. Luisa's. Vizco's. Slaughterhouse. Etc. Every week. "Sarap ng buhay, Sana ganito nalang lagi ha?" Until a virus came and they all closed down. Bummer.
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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..