Baguio City, Pine Trees, and what lies ahead of us.

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Do you remember the times when you try to find a place to breathe fresh air because you get suffocated by the polluted air on the streets? Do you remember the time when it’s so hot you ran to a couple of shades on a green banquet of healthy pines?

There were these questions I ask myself whenever I spend long weekends in Baguio City- the summer capital of the Philippines. Recently, I already told my girlfriend for us not to hang around SM for a date, it’s not that I am boycotting the mall, but I find it useless to be spending time in a mall while I have malls to go to while in Manila. Besides, a lot of good stores and restaurants are hidden around the city. We went to Heritage Hill last Thursday, (I realized I lost my pictures of the Diplomat Hotel before so I took some shots), it is now being renovated to be a church on top of that one foggy hill overlooking the city.

We got onto the top of the hotel and saw the houses laid on the crust of each hump of the mountain range. It was a bit scary to look at it. The vast forests before has been turned into a place made specifically to be inhabited by man. And now that we’re trying to preserve the remaining trees to hold the land, here comes SM’s way of helping us.

According to articles published online, SM’s plan will be transplanting pine trees. This means that to give way for the construction of a seven-storey expansion, trees will be moved to another area, probably just around the vicinity of SM as well. In line with this, they will “plant” 50 sapling for every tree affected.

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