I had been wanting to visit Baguio City because tourists consider it as one of the best vacation spots in the country. I grew up in Manila, moved to Thailand and then to Australia and it was only a few weeks ago that I was able to visit this popular city.
My entire family packed their bags, hired a van, cooked a lot of food and endured the six-hour drive to the summer capital of the Philippines. Along the way, we saw waterfalls left and right. The green mountains were covered by clouds.
Upon seeing the city itself, I was deeply disappointed because it reminded me of the ugliness of Manila. It was crowded and polluted. The landscape was littered with houses and apartments. The traffic made my ears ring and my nose sneeze.
Fortunately, we were with someone who used to live there. She was also able to speak the local dialect and ask for directions. We went to a hot springs resort that only locals know about. The pool water was hot enough to cook an egg and looking up, we could see green mounntain peaks and the blue sky looking at us.
All of us loved the vacation. It provided us a ten-degree lower than in Manila relief. It also gave us a chance to have a great experience together and that is hard to do when Steven and I are living overseas. I really hope we will share another experience like this very soon.
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| inside the van |
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| Lion's Head |
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| taken from the rented house |
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| keeps me warm |
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| checking Adelaide news |
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| pointing at the clouds |
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| suffering before seeing the statue of Mary |
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| taken at a souvenir shop |
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| China Town |
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| Lovely with her strawberry ice cream |
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| my father with a butter fly |
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| passengers at Burnham Park |
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| rowing at Burnham Park |
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| another passenger |
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| Steven at Mine's View Park |
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| the gang at Mine's View Park |
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