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Baguio Botanical Garden is one of the well-known gardens in the Philippines. It is located between Wright Park and Teacher’s Camp along Leonard Wood Road in Baguio City. Baguio Botanical Garden provides tourists with a serene and laid-back environment with tall pine trees, vivid flowers, art galleries (Baguio Arts Guild) and sculptures portraying the different ceremonial of the Cordillera ethnic group can be seen. For this reason, the garden is visited by almost one hundred thousand tourists and local parkgoers every month.
In accordance with its past history, Baguio Botanical Garden was once known to the locals as the Igorot Village because of the diverse Cordillera carving and huts garnish around the park. Moreover, in the past decades, it is widely known to the locals as Centennial Park in commemoration of one hundred years of Baguio City. However, in the year 2021, Baguio Botanical Garden was temporarily closed to the public because of the ongoing pandemic and the rehabilitation of the park. Even so after ten months of closure, Baguio Botanical Garden is now open to all visitors and tourists coming from different parts of the country.
In addition, the 150-meter historic Japanese tunnel walkway which was constructed by the Japanese soldiers during the Second World War has been reopened to the public inside the Baguio Botanical Garden. The Japanese tunnel walkway is like a dark maze that serves as a bunker in the 1940s. Presently, Baguio Botanical Garden is divided into different sections. There are gardens showcasing the friendship of Baguio City with other countries like the United States of America, China, Japan, Korea, and Thailand. Each garden has a trademark identical to each country. To give you an idea you can find inside the garden the replica of temples and pavilions of Korea and China. Also, you can see statues of elephants and mini-Buddha. So if you want to see the newly renovated and much larger Baguio Botanical Garden then include it in your next travel itinerary.
