Baguio City Hall

Baguio City Hall is a pretty sight among tall trees and the ornate gardens that fill its surrounding slopes. It provides an overlooking view of Baguio City's center since it proudly stands on a hill.

With its building partly covered with the vegetation in its front, I firstly thought that this was the Baguio Cathedral. Come Sunday when my family and I would hear mass, I then realized that I was completely wrong about the Cathedral's address because my phone's GPS routed me to the opposite direction! Such shame. haha!

See what I mean? You can't really see the entire building and the thought of it as a church can be a possibility. Of course, if you have a perfect vision, you can easily rebuke me. My poor eyesight fails me every now and then, you know. (And I then have a perfect excuse!)

Here is my mother laughing at something which I can't remember what. It must be the joke we had on our father because he suggested in a jest that he would have a courtesy visit with the city mayor. However, it was a Sunday so, apparently, the City Hall was closed.

We had lunch at Cafe by the Ruins which was just across the city hall. Even with the impending downpour, we deliberately made our way up the hill so that my father could at least feel a wee bit of his supposedly courtesy visit. By this time though, the rain was dead serious with its threats that's why, my brother was cocooned with his jacket and my parents were squeezed into their own small umbrella.

At certain times when the rain retreated, we spent a good amount of time, taking photos which were quite embarrassing on a weekday. A weekday when the city hall is busy with people and the horror of a police reprimanding us! As far as we know, we didn't do something illegal. Well, not to that extent. The eyesore graffiti or the child-like scribbles, I should say, were already there on the flag pole's base. How could there be such preposterous people?! Tsk

The city hall building reminds me of an American type of architecture but as always, I can be wrong. But with Baguio's cool climate, the city was established by the Americans during their occupation of the Philippines in the early 1900's. Up until now, the lasting traces are still present in the city like the Camp John Hay and Burnham Park which the latter, I would be talking about in one of my next posts. I have no idea when. haha

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