Man-made lake needs 34M liters of water

True to their word, workers have completed the dredging of Burnham Lake here two weeks before the opening of the Baguio Flower Festival in February.

True to their word, workers have completed the dredging of Burnham Lake here two weeks before the opening of the Baguio Flower Festival in February.

Tourism officials and ukay-ukay (secondhand bargain goods) traders in the summer capital rejoiced on Friday when the temperature dropped further to 9.5 degrees Celsius.

Organizers of the Baguio Flower Festival have reinstated the no campaigning rule for politicians joining the annual crowd-drawing event.

They were not aiming to break any records, but government engineers have worked out what are probably the fastest infrastructure projects in the city for January due to the Baguio Flower Festival that would start next month.

The annual Baguio Flower Festival, which has been drawing most of the summer capital’s tourists in the last decade, should start selling tickets to keep down to a manageable level the visitors who watch its street dancing and float parades, an American university expert said here on Friday.
When the Panagbenga (Baguio Flower Festival) theme song starts to play in the street dancing parade today, the performers may be gyrating through unusually warm February weather being experienced by the summer capital.
A government contractor has sped up rehabilitation work on Baguio’s main gateway, Marcos Highway, amid public outcry due to traffic jams and uncoordinated traffic rules along a 1.38-kilometer stretch there that has turned off motorists, residents and tourists.