A "loaded" Sightseing at Burnham Park

Loaded with our bags already, we can’t help not visiting this famous Burnham Park before heading back to Manila. It’s a shame if we will not visit this anyway as the park is in the City center and in fact just few kilometers away from the transient house we stayed.

And so, with heavy luggage on our backs and shoulders, we explored the Park. It was under renovation then but still there are a lot of tourists.

Burnham Park has man-made lagoon with a range of water boat ride option. Bike riding and skating is also available in the area. A lot of food stalls can also be found. But since we’re fully loaded then (hahahah), we chose to stroll the area and of course we can’t forget to have photo op. :p

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What's in in the PMA Grounds?

It’s known to be the school and training venue of the best Filipino men and women aiming for military service, and like many of us, we also would like to witness or at least have a glimpse of what’s in the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) grounds. That’s why on the 2nd day of our exciting Baguio escape, we had PMA tour as our first stop.

Located at Fort Gegorio del Pilar on Loakan Road or at least about 10km from Burnham Park, we headed to PMA few minutes after 8AM. Since it was peak time and on a Monday, our travel time were more than expected, about 45mins to be specific when on normal time and days you can get to the place in 30mins.

The area is very huge and we requested the taxi driver to drop us at the midpoint.
We strolled the area and glad that it’s very clean with properly maintained landscaped.  There are vintage tanks, weapons and helicopters too!

How we wish we could witness drill exhibitions of the cadets, but due to our schedule and time constraints, we didn’t have one..but at least, we had our photo op with the very accommodating cadets.

The PMA grounds are open to the public all year round but it’s said that the best time to visit is during weekends for drill exhibitions and just before lunch time when the cadets would walk to their mesh hall.

P.S. Don’t forget to bring ID when visiting the place as it’s required upon entering the grounds.

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There's more to "The Mansion"

Coming from the Wright Park and just we were about to cross the street towards The Mansion, we spotted three big tourists buses also heading towards the famous tourist spot. Yeah right, a lot of tourist in this area at the same time would mean no chance of taking good pictures..argh!

And so, without further delay, we literally ran to at least get ahead of them. J And guess what; we managed to get a number of good shots just before they get in the area. Lucky isn’t it?

But hey, what’s really in it about The Mansion that everybody would like to get a sight of it when in Baguio City? Well, it’s the summer residence of the President of the Philippines and also its official residence when in the City. As an official home of the highest leader in the country, I think it’s merely understandable why everyone is just curious about it.
 

But wait, after visiting the place, I just learned that a lot of historical events took place in this area, giving more reasons why indeed one would visit it when in the City of Pines. As to what these events please see picture below.

For security reasons, tourists are only allowed to enter a little past the gate though but enough area to have a picture perfect shoot of the well known spot.

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Wright Park in Baguio City

After about a 10-minute walk from the Baguio Botanical Garden, this Jollibee riding in a horse signage welcomed us to Wright Park Baguio City.

There are several horses which can be rented for at least 15 minutes and can stroll around the park. Funny how imaginative they could get to make their horses attractive as possible and lure each tourist or visitor to rent it..see, they even dyed one in pink!

Plants for sale could also be found in the park.

After taking some photos and a short stroll around the area, we headed through this stairs to the other side of the park.

We rested for a while after the somewhat long walked and hiked by sitting beside this long ornamental lagoon until we had a sight of “The Mansion”.

We didn’t realize that the other side of the park is actually just in front of The Mansion and we were just a few steps away from it. And yes, needless to say, we stood up immediately and walked towards the famous sight. Please click here for my entry about The Mansion. J

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