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Go Baguio! Your Complete Guide to Baguio City, Philippines

Baguio for Free:

Things to Do in Baguio City

Without Spending a Cent(avo)

Explore the caves & WWII tunnels on South Drive

Gather twigs, fallen leaves and have a bonfire

Collect fallen pine cones to make your own Christmas Tree. The best time to do this is from July onwards

Go "window" shopping at the Baguio City Market dry goods section and Maharlika Livelihood Center

Try on clothes and live out your ukay-ukay diva dreams

Take long walks on the beautiful East Side: Leonard Wood, Brent Road, Navy C M Recto) Road, Mines View, Outlook Drive, Gibraltar. South Drive can be romantic by day (but spooky at night)

Visit as many parks and gardens as you can. To name a few: Burnham Park, Botanical Garden, Sunshine Park, Peoples Park, Japanese Garden, Igorot Garden, Mines View Park

Check out art galleries at the Baguio Arts Guild at Botanical Garden and the Woodcarvers Village at Asin.

Watch a weaving demo at the Easter School on Easter Road

Count the number of volkwagen beetles moving around in the (those little things climb mountains really well).

Curl up before a fire and exchange ghost stories

Try a few Ilocano words on the locals

Lay a blanket out on Burnham Park and read a good book

Go birdwatching. We have a lot of different species flying around. I just can't tell you their names, but they're pretty!)

Fly a kite at the Melvin Jones Grandstand. It might be more fun if you made your own kite, too.

Hike up Mt. Sto. Tomas (Baguio's highest point and get 360˚ view of Baguio City, La Union and South China Sea. It's one of my favorite places for a picnic.

Visit churches and temples

Count the number of steps of the following stairs (if the sign posts tell you how many steps there are, verify). Examples: stairs to the Baguio Cathedral from the middle of Session Road, stairs to the Lourdes Grotto, stairs leading up from the Wright Park Riding Circle (pony rides) to Wright Park (gazebo, Pool of the Pines), stairs at the Botanical Garden.

Have a digital photo contest of interesting names and signages such as "Napulyun" taxi cab, "Why look?/Crush me? mud guards, or "(Name of Parlor) Men & She Salon"

Wash your car using free mountain spring water. Look around, you'll find quite a few

Engage someone in a game of chess at the Igorot Garden in Burnham Park

Watch the Philippine Military Academy cadets parade on Sunday mornings at the PMA grandstand

Gather river stones of different shapes at the Bued river (Kennon Road) and who knows, you may get lucky and find a gold nugget!

Interview the natives in ethnic dress (Wright Park, Botanical Garden, Session Road) -- in English, of course.

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HERE IS A LIST OF

CHEAP THINGS TO DO

Visit Tam-awan Village, an authentic and thriving artist's community with native huts, gallery, workshops and more! Entrance: P20/person

Get your portrait done by a

member of the Baguio Arts Guild

at the Botanical Garden.

Donations Accepted

Visit the Butterfly Sanctuary at

Camp John Hay and learn more

about how to take care of them.

Entrance P20/person

Go Flower Picking

Baguio parks are off limits to the

picking of flowers but you may want to visit the flower farms of La Trinidad Valley where you can pick all the flowering plants to your hearts' content at just P10/plant