Series 51: Baguio City on a wet weekend

October 3rd, 2007 | 1 Comment

wetbaguio_blog.jpgFor a change, we headed to Baguio City for a brief stay two weekends ago. Not much was done as the weather was just uncooperative. Yes, Baguio City was wet as rains made its mark on and off. When temperatures are already cool, it was much made cooler with the somber weather. But it wasn’t disappointing. In fact, it wasn’t bad at all.

Series 51: Baguio City on a wet weekend is my third series on this wonderful city now starting in Binary Silver. This series consists of 6 photos scheduled in the next three weeks.

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Series 28: Baguio, a second series

March 11th, 2006 | No Comments

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The second series on my Baguio travels now posted with 14 photos started today at Binary Silver. It opens with a photo taken at SM City Baguio, top floor. Others taken at the public market, along Session Road, PMA grounds, Wright Park, and overpasses that crisscross the main roads. It then ends with a worm’s eyeview of the Bagiuo Cathedral’s flank taken early in the morning.

A weekend at Baguio, 3

March 9th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Other than the ubiquitous strawberries (when I went there, these were just big, plump, red and sweet) there are other food and delicacies that one can find in the public market: different fresh vegetables, fruits like longgan (imported), the usual oranges and apples, mangoes, passion fruit. There are also pasalubongs like sundot kulangot, different fruit jellies and jams, biscuits and other sweets, strawberry wine…
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Strawberries are available at around P70 per kilo and were just delicious.

As for passion fruits, I prefer those that are sold in the city which are sweet. The first time I’ve tasted these were when I was still a child back in Cebu and there was a small variety of this fruit that grows just outside the house which was semi sweet to bland in taste. The second time, was in Tupi, South Cotabato, under the foothills of Mt. Matutum during a beetle collecting trip and these were yellow in color but very sour.
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One of the strangest delicacies, and one that have always caught my attention ever since I’ve been to this city but have not tried it was the strangely called food stuff sundot kulangot, literally, pick (?) on booger! It doesn’t really take a genius to know why. Encased in bamboo strips in groups of 9 – 10 small round pieces like the size of marbles, one opens it into half and with one’s pinkie (if the other fingers are just too big), you pick on the “booger.”
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These are really small and bite sized kalamay, a native delicacy that’s made of sweetened sticky rice with coconut milk. These are sold for around P25 per bundle.

A weekend at Baguio, 1

March 3rd, 2006 | No Comments

I’ve always liked Baguio. Everytime I’m in that place I just feel at peace. Happy. It seems to be a different place. The cool weather helps and the nippy mountain air is a big positive change from the usual humid and very polluted air of Metro Manila. Strawberries are cheap and almost found everywhere. Passion fruits are sweet. Session road is teeming with people passing by, looking, buying trinkets and stuff during the evening and a bowl of hot soup is always a welcome treat. That was where we went almost four weekends ago, just after my birthday.

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These punks were just sitting in Session Road unmindful of the stares and quiet chuckle of passersby. I couldn’t resist myself that’s why I went near, asked and got their photos. During the evening, small time sellers of various stuffs from handmade native necklaces and bracelets, to leather goods, pirated VCDs/DVDs/CDs, to various used clothing locally called as wagwag or ukay-ukay. Its really a pleasure to watch people pass, stop, stoop, haggle, and then buy.

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Early Sunday morning and just after I took some photos of the cathedral, I met these Aeta (natives) selling whistles. While at the market, I passed by the flower section. Flowers from La Trinidad find their way here, a narrow alley filled with differet varieties.

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Also at the market, one cannot miss these pasalubong vendors: from the famous Baguio brooms that my mother likes very much to various food stuff like peanut brittle, ube (purple yam) jams, chocomallows, crinkles, and various sweets.

Because the city is on a mountain, most sections are steep but really not a problem when going up as the coolness makes the walk relaxing.

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Series 13: Baguio City

August 15th, 2005 | No Comments

Series 13 already started at Binary Silver. This series consists of 10 photos during my travel to Baguio last December and February. Would have wanted to post more though, especially those of boats docked at the Burnham Park but maybe, in some upcoming series. Ten would be enough for now.

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