Baguio
The City of Pines is the Philippines’ cool-air summer capital — a former American hill station laid out by Daniel Burnham at around fifteen hundred metres in the southern Cordillera, where the temperature in March is still cool enough to need a jacket at dawn. The civic centre is Burnham Park, a long oval of pine-shaded paths around a central lake where rented swan boats drift in the morning mist. Stay long enough for an early walk through the public market on Magsaysay Avenue, the strawberry farms in nearby La Trinidad, and the BenCab Museum on the road out to the lowlands. Baguio is the standard launching point for Sagada and Banaue further north.
