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Baguio City Public Market | The Best Place To Buy Pasalubong

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Our visit to Baguio City will not be complete without a trip to the Baguio City Public Market. Located right in the heart of Baguio City near Burnham Park we can always stroll by whenever we are near. Usually, it does not happen that way. The best time to go here is when we are about to go home because of pasalubongs!

Baguio City Public Market

The public market is quite big, there the wet section where you can find meats, vegetable sections where you can find vegetables (duh!), pasalubong section, rice, coffee, and many more.

Market of Abo-Abo in Española, Palawan

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We arrived in Española, Palawan on a Wednesday for me to have a crash course about agriculture. We went by the Market of Abo-Abo, where the intersection of the National Highway, where one road would lead to Quezon where the Tabon Caves Complex are located and the other to Brooke’s Point and Rio Tuba. The market was big but it resembled a ghost town as only a handful of stalls are open and the other are vacated. I asked why the market was very big and yet no one occupies the stall. On my standards it was a total waste of space. Tito Nani said to me that I should go there on a Thursday to see why.

Almost empty market

The next day, from the research facility of Department of Agriculture in Española I walked to the under-construction-muddy-due-to-the-rain National Highway and to the market. The ghost town market was no more, as the place was filled with living souls with bodies and a lot of goods being traded.

Turns out that every Thursday is Market Day at Abo-Abo Market. This is the day where producers can sell their goods directly to the end-user. The goods sold that day were vegetables, fruits, dried fishes, fresh seafood, pots and pans, bolo, canned goods and many more.

The 15-Minute Palengke Stopover at Mount Polis

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As soon as the bus going to Banaue from Bontoc stopped at Mount Polis, passengers on the topload and inside the bus excitedly and hurriedly got out of the bus. It was my first time seeing eagerness over a bus stopover. Usually, people will just go out of the bus because they need to go to the comfort room or just to eat for a while.

Passengers going down from the topload at Mount Polis

Passengers going down from the topload at Mount Polis

(Top) Pipino P30/kilo; (Bottom) Cabbage P20/kilo

(Top) Pipino P30/kilo; (Bottom) Cabbage P20/kilo

Mount Polis is famous among the locals as having good and fresh vegetables. Though prices may not be very cheap, it is still somewhat lower than the price of the market here in Manila.

I managed to talk to some vendors there, surprisingly they were generally happy. You may find it silly, but I think that is one of the real reasons why people want to buy their vegetables here. As we conversed more I found out that the vendors were also the farmers who plant and harvest the crops. They plant just below their stalls. Unfortunately, the farm lands are not visible from the road. But as long as I know that there is No delivery charge and no middle-man, giving the producers a big percentage of what I paid for, I’m happy.

There’s also a store that sells fried lumpia for only 5 Pesos. They serve them hot, the ingredients are fresh and it tastes good. 🙂