Blog 5 #Been2Baguio MINES VIEW PARK⛰️💚

Happy weekend and happy first of July, dear friends!💓

I hope everyone is doing well and that you all are healthy.🤗

And so we are back with the #Been2Baguio series, now I am taking you guys to Mines View Park.

Below are fun facts about the place I got from the Web: 👇👇👇

Mines View Park is an overlook park on the northeastern outskirts of Baguio in the Philippines. It is five kilometers away from the Heart of Baguio, passing through the Baguio Botanical Garden, the Mansion House, Wright Park, and the Pacdal Circle.

Mines View Park is located on a promontory of land on Baguio's northeastern section -- about 4 km from downtown Baguio.

Standing on a small observation deck in Mines View Park, the tourist has a spectacular view of the Amburayan Valley and adjacent mountains and over the gold and copper mines formerly operated there by the Benguet Corporation.

From the car park and its souvenir shops (selling items such as tribal artefacts and silver jewelry), the observation deck can be reached by following a winding stone-constructed stairway. Sometimes the stairway can get a bit slippery in Baguio's damp weather -- so take care!

Since the main attraction of Mines View Park is the view of the nearby mountains, there are people hiring out binoculars so you can get a better view. The cost is only a few pesos for 5 or 10 minutes.

If you get a sunshiny day, take the opportunity to quickly get some photos of the views from Mines View Park -- for the odds are that one of Baguio's mists or fogs may soon sweep in and obscure the view.

SOURCE: Wikipedia

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There you have the facts straight!

The place is a common tourist spot so it was expected that it would get crowded when we got there - which was true. It was the reason we did not stay there for long since people started coming in and everywhere we looked there were a bunch of tourists - local and international.

Of course we did not skip the part wherein we get to wear some of the locals' attire - it is called "Ifugao/Igorot wear".

(From the Web: The term Ifugao is derived from ipugo, which means "earth people", "mortals" or "humans", as distinguished from spirits and deities. It also means "from the hill", as pugo means hill. The term Igorot or Ygolote was the term used by the Spanish for mountain people. The Ifugaos, however, prefer the name Ifugao. Furthermore: Cultural elements common to the Igorot peoples as a whole include metalworking in iron and brass, weaving, and animal sacrifice. They believe in spirits, including those of ancestors, and have complex rituals to propitiate them.)

I enjoyed every bit of our experience as I immersed in their culture and learned more about life in Baguio, which is so different from my own.✨

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