Friday, 21 October 2011 01:22

Written by MALOU E. ROSAL

Tags: Happy Feet

Up there in Baguio, the air is crisp and bracing. To escape the stifling lowland heat and stress, many Filipinos still pack up to make the climb to this mountain city. But through the years, change has inevitably crept in. Visitors maneuvering through the zigzags of Kennon Road are welcomed halfway up by the iconic statue of the lion grinning in reworked garish brown and black. What used to be spectacular views of lush mountains, bubbling brooks and thunderous waterfalls have been replaced by patched or bald cliff faces, muddy runs and boulders left over from the recent landslide. The treelines have receded, trunks felled by previous logging operations. Perhaps those activities may have been a thing of the past. But so is the scent of pines.

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