BAGUIO CITY CELEBRATED FLOWER FESTIVAL
Camp John Hay, Baguio, March 17, 1998 - The annual Baguio Flower Festival graced the main street of Baguio City for three days for the floral parade, marching bands, street dancing and crowning of the Festival Queen.
The festival is organized annually by the John Hay Development Corporation showcasing the City of Pines also as the City of Flowers. The festival also featured many cultural presentations focused on Baguio's ethnic groups and the weeklong shows of ornamental plants and locally-grown flowers. There were also competition in landscaping and flower arrangements.
Baguio is in Benguet province and is the summer capital of the Philippines. Up until the killer earthquake in 1990 which inflicted massive damage on the city and environs, it was the prime tourist spot, with its cool climate, pine-clad hills, resort hotels and inns, beautiful parks, golf course at John Hay and colorful market selling strawberries, handicrafts, vegetables from nearby La Trinidad, the vegetable garden of Luzon, Igorot woodcarvings and woven products.
Today great improvements have rejuvenated the city and is again fastly becoming the popular tourist destination of the Philippines. Philippine Airlines flies to Baguio City and Dangwa buses make trips to the interior. Jeepneys also connect the main towns and travel across the provincial borders to Cagayan Valley and Abra.
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