Sights in The Cordillera
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Camp John Hay
Formerly a US military rest-and-recreation facility, 246-hectare Camp John Hay has been reinvented as a mountain resort with restaurants, hotels, shops and a fantastic golf course sprinkled amid rolling hills and stands of Benguet pines. Worth a visit is the Historical Core with the attractively landscaped Bell Amphitheatre and some walking trails. Nearby is the unique Choco-laté de Batriol restaurant. There’s a nice panorama from the Mile High viewpoint; the Butterfly Sanctuary is also worth a look. It’s free to enter Camp John Hay, although modest admission fees apply to some sights.
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Museum of Cordillera Sculpture
The Museum of Cordillera Sculpture, located next to Spring Village Inn, has a fabulous collection of bulol and other Ifugao woodcarvings, including some rare originals. There are also some fascinating old books that you can read, including a 1912 National Geographic on Ifugao head-hunters.
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Baguio Mountain Provinces Museum
The collection of Cordillera artefacts at the Baguio Mountain Provinces Museum isn’t quite as impressive, but the museum also has a compelling exhibition on the history of Baguio, with some superb old photos and placards chronicling the city’s role in WWII. There’s also one Kabayan mummy on display.
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Julia Campbell Agroforest Memorial Park
In barangay Pula in the town of Asipulo, a 48-hectare organic coffee forest has been turned into the Julia Campbell Agroforest Memorial Park. Julia Campbell was a US Peace Corps volunteer whose murder at the hands of a local man on the main trail to Batad in April 2007 shocked the country.
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St Louis University Museum
The excellent St Louis University Museum, in the basement of the campus library, is run by Ike Picpican, one of the country’s foremost authorities on the history and culture of the Cordillera people. Free tours end with participatory native-instrument jam sessions.
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Tam-Awan Village
Eight traditional Ifugao homes and two rare octagonal Kalinga huts were taken apart and reassembled at this artists’ village on the northwest edge of the city. On a clear day you can see the South China Sea, hence the name Tam-awan, which means ‘vantage point’.
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Ganduyan Museum
The Ganduyan Museum contains a wealth of sculptures, jewellery and other Kankanay artefacts. Be sure to chat to owner Christina Aben, who is a fountain of information about local culture and history. Ganduyan is the traditional Kankanay name for Sagada.
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Balatoc Mine
At the abandoned Balatoc Mine, you can don helmet and headlamp, board an underground train and pretend you're a miner. To get there take an Acupan-Balatoc jeepney from Harrison Rd near the Burnham Hotel (around P18, 30 minutes).
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Bell Church
The Bell Church consists of several ornate, pagoda-roofed temples near the border of Baguio and La Trinidad. The priests here have one foot in Taoism and a couple of toes in Christianity.
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Banaue Museum
The Banaue View Inn runs the Banaue Museum, which contains books written decades ago by anthropologist Otley Beyer and Igorot artefacts collected by his son William.
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