Baguio Travel Adventures: June 2010 - Pink Sisters, Camp John Hay, Baguio Country Club and PMA

     Every year, we go to Baguio; it's an official stay.  I've been there for 2 straight years but I forgot to finish my Baguio adventures last year, so I'll start, again, for the year 2010.

     My memory's quite bad, but I can still remember what we did because of the photos I took.

     We went to the Pink Sisters, prayed inside where we could see the pink sisters praying, too.  I think they take turns and the sisters pray 24 hours.  We also wrote our petitions on a piece of parchment.

Pink Sisters

     Not surprisingly, I saw a taho vendor selling strawberry-flavored taho and not just the regular one.  It was so sweet but you do get strawberry pieces.

     We tried walking inwards the street where the Pink Sister's convent is located and we passed by some great looking condominiums.  Apparently, Brent School (International) is located there.

     As I have previously blogged, we stayed at the Manor in Camp John Hay.  Since we're staying there, we went to the Bell House and paid a minimal fee to get inside the premises.  According to the Camp John Hay website, he Bell House used to be the vacation quarters of the Commanding General of the Philippines.  It now serves as a modern museum of colonial architecture and lifestyle.  

     

     There's something weird, though, at the Bell House Compound: this totem pole made by  Ernesto Dul-ang.  Kinda creepy.

     In the Bell House compound, another interesting structure lies: the Bell Amphitheater.  Apparently, this structure was designed by and named in honor of General J. Franklin Bell.  Moreover, according to the Camp John Hay website, the Amphitheater serves as an engineering marvel, allowing for good acoustics and is an excellent venue for concerts and other performances.

     If you're at the Bell House, don't forget to stop by at the Cemetery of Negativism, the symbolic burial place of negativism, said to be man's greatest self-imposed infliction, his most limiting factor, and his heaviest burden.

       There's also the History trail and the Secret Garden but we didn't go there.

     

     We stayed in Baguio for 3 days and 2 nights, so we had ample time to visit the Philippine Military Academy which is a little far from the city center.  We saw a lot of cadets making their daily run at the PMA.

  

   

     We also dropped by the Mansion, the President's official summer house.

     For pasalubong, we bought the famed raisin bread from our next-door neighbor, the Baguio Country Club.

  

     Of course, we didn't forget to buy goodies like ube jam, strawberry jam and brittle nut from the Good Shepherd convent. Their garden's full of pretty flowers!