Fare Travel Time Schedule Notes After picking up my pre-ordered Lemon Pie from Lemon Pie House in Sagada, Mountain Province around 6AM I was hurrying back to my lodge to pick up my stuff and run to the bus station to reach the 7AM trip to Baguio. I’ve heard stories of people unable to ride [...]

It all started when the conductor asked me if I was comfortably seated on a step near the door. I was sitting there because I offered my seat to a passenger who rode the bus on the way during my trip to Baguio for the Pilipinas Akyathlon. “Dibali sir, pagdating natin sa susunod na bayan [...]

I saw this group of people during my visit to Burnham Park and I remembered a similar situation when I was tricked in Cubao during my high school days. How does this modus operandi work? You, the curious one, approach and observe these deeply thinking people trying to solve a chess problem. The Dealer, then [...]

Meet Kuya Franky, one of the taho vendors who walks around Burnham Park. He sells taho with the usual arnibal (brown sugar and vanilla syrup) but he also sells taho with another mix, the strawberry syrup. He first takes a plastic cup, puts in small amounts of soft tofu, adds sago then pours the strawberry [...]

If you’re a fan of manggang hilaw (unripe mango) you’ll love to go to Baguio and buy from peddlers such as Kuya from the picture above. For only PhP25.00 you’ll have one manggang hilaw served in a transparent plastic and you can choose from the usual alamang (shrimp paste), salt or