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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Botanical Garden. Baguio's last reserved parks.
One of Baguio's last reserved parks. Enjoy it while supply lasts. Condo developers are already on the horizon. Oh, there's also a World War II tunnel you could walk in? Spooky.
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Mother’s Garden and Cafe. Nature and cuisine.
Where nature, culture and fine dining meet. Just a few minutes from town is a secluded resto where you can relax, converge with nature and enjoy good cuisine.
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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..