BAGUIO CITY

BEST SPOTS

SUMMER CAPITAL. In the summer months of March, April, and May, Baguio lives up to its title as the “Summer Capital of the Philippines” when thousands of local and foreign visitors take their annual exodus to the city to cool off. From November to May, Baguio becomes a tropical paradise, a refreshing break from the hot and humid Philippine climate. Christmas season is when Baguio denizens enjoys the nippy winter air.

RICE TERRACES. Ifugao is home to a thriving ancient culture and host to the famous rice terraces. Carved from the base of the mountainsides to the top, the rice terraces seem to be a massive green stairway reaching to the sky.

The rice terraces were formed by the Ifugao tribespeople using primitive implements over a period of two thousand (2000) years. The famous terraces had been inscribed in UNESCo’s World Heritage List in 1995 as “a continuing cultural landscape” and likewise considered by the U.S. Association of Civil Engineers as a n engineering marvel built by unschooled and free men not of slave labor.

WEAVER’S PARADISE. Mountain Province is known as the “Weaver’s Paradise” with the presence of various weaving centers and different weave designs that reveal the province’s cultural heritage.