Ohhh It's grim up North
Trip Start
Dec 02, 2007
1
19
22
Trip End
Aug 2007
Baguio,
Philippines
Thursday, January 31, 2008
We made our way to the bus terminal after a dodgy complimentary breakfast and turned up just in time for a bus to Baguio, a deluxe bus Victory Liner, with no stops for 600peso, there was a cheaper one, but not until 2pm and this was at 8.30, so we treated ourselves, just to save us waiting around for another 5 hours. The bus was really nice, the seats were massive and we were greeted with a Kenny Rodgers DVD in concert, so can't be bad! Anything other than Celine Dion! They even served water and cake once we were an hour or so into the journey, which was a nice touch! Then they put "The Island" on which as we started to get into, it busted and was no more, so back to dodgy compilation CD of lovesongs, and back to the book. We arrived in Baguio after 6 hours which was great considering the Lonely Liar states 8 hours. Went to Red Lion checked in and chilled for a while, and then went up for dinner and drinks. We sat with some old English fellas, who appear to just sit there day in day out drinking, all over 60 and all had Filipino wives of about 25 - 30, whatever floats your boat I s'pose. So drank with them, and they were asking where we had been and where we were going, and stated as did those in Manilla, "You don't need to go anywhere else in the Philippines, everything is right here......" Sod that! Anyway called it a night and went back to room, watched TV for a while, again until the room stopped spinning!
31-01-08
Got up for another complimentary breakfast on the roof terrace, which looked over Baguio town and which was a helluva lot better than Adriatico, and there was a childrens marching band going through the town with batons etc, playing a compilation of YMCA and Barbie girl on the drums and bells. We went off into town for a look round and make the decision of Where Next? There really wasn;t much to do as far as we could see, same ole same ole really, American war rubbish etc. So we decided on Mines View Park, where there were some truly remarkable views of the surrounding Valley, I would say this is probably the only place worth visiting in Baguio, the owner of the Red Lion had said a lot of people just stop in Baguio to get drunk before heading up north. So we got a Jeepney (A kind of Bus / Jeep, that the Americans had left there and Filipinos had turned into modes of transport) back to town centre and went to the big supermarket to get some bits and pieces. We decided we would leave the following day and make our way up north to Bontoc.
