Baguio City: 5-8 December 2009

Rest and Recreation prior to Christmas Ministries from 9-28 December 2009.

Approximately 250 kilometers north of Manila, Baguio City is situated in the Province of Benguet. The developed portion of the city corresponds to the plateau that rises to an elevation of 1,400 meters. Baguio is 8 degrees cooler on the average than any place in lowlands. When Manila sweats at 35 degrees centigrade or above, Baguio seldom exceeds 26 degrees centigrade at its warmest.

Victory Liner Bus from Manila to Baguio

In the summer months of March, April, May, Baguio lives up to its title as the “Summer Capital of the Philippines”. Thousands of visitors from the lowlands and Manila take their annual exodus to the city to enjoy its cool weather.

Lourdes Grotto, Mirador

Mirador Jesuit Villa

Hence, the name Baguio conjures, for both the international and domestic traveler, a highland retreat in the Grand Cordillera in Northern Luzon, with pine trees, crisp cold breezes and low verdant knolls and hillocks. Through the numerous decades Baguio has morphed from what was once a grassy marshland into one of the cleanest and greenest, most highly urbanized cities in the country.

Baguio Cathedral



C.I.C.M. Maryhurst Mission Seminary

It has made its mark as a premiere tourist destination in the Northern part of the Philippines with its cool climate, foggy hills, panoramic views and lovely flowers. Being the ideal convergence zone of neighboring highland places, Baguio is the melting pot of different peoples and cultures and has boosted its ability to provide a center for education for its neighbors.

(From: www.baguio.gov.ph)

Philippine Military Academy