| type="text/javascript"> | | | | find widespread fast in the capital, & soon more than |
| Filipinos speak of BAGUIO CITY with a detailed | | | | friars, soldiers and fortune-hunters were trekking |
| respect, but for any one who has looked Europe's | | | | north to convince the natives to Christianity and |
| mountains or America's national parks, it's something | | | | profits from the rich natural resources. In the |
| of a disappointment, nothing more than a | | | | nineteenth century, colonizing Americans took over & |
| conveniently placed one-night stop on the way to | | | | developed Baguio City Philippines into a modernized |
| the mountains beyond. Still, there are some sights in | | | | city, a showcase administrative and recreational |
| Baguio City & at least the night life is entertaining and | | | | centre, from where they could preside over their rich |
| low-priced. City of Baguio,Philippines is a univertity | | | | tropical colony without working up too much of a |
| city, and the student population has made come up | | | | sweat. In 1944, when American force-out landed in |
| to a number of bohemian little cafés,hotels in | | | | Leyte, the head of theImperial of Japanese Army, |
| baguio city philippines, bars and live-music venues. | | | | General Yamashita, moved his headquarters to City |
| Also notable as City of Pines or City of Flowers, | | | | of Baguio, Philippines & helped establish a puppet |
| Baguio City (Philippines )rests on a tableland 1400m | | | | Philippine governance there under Pres José |
| above sea lvl with alot of mountains on all positions. | | | | Laurel. In 1945 the city was war-torn & 1000's lost |
| In the sixteenth century, intrepid Spanish friars had | | | | their home bases as loosing forces flushed out |
| begun to search the region, discovering a land of | | | | Yamashita & his army. General (Gen.) Yamashita |
| fertile valleys, pine-clad hills and mountains, lush | | | | rapidly fled N(north) into the interior, leaving a smaller |
| vegetation & an abundance of minerals such as | | | | delaying force to cover his ignominious exit. |
| copper and ore. News Reports about this refreshing | | | | |