Getting Back to Manila from Baguio City
April 27, 2009 by lisa
Filed under travel & transportation
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Originally, I thought that for folks coming up to Baguio City from Manila, getting back to Manila would be a cinch. As it turns out, the road getting back home is still a little tricky for some folks.
In analyzing why this is so, I guess it’s caused by several things:
1. The landmarks and road signs that folks are watching out for would be different going up than the landmarks folks are looking out for going down.
2. There are weird signs in Pangasinan that keep saying “To Manila” or “Alternate Route to Manila” that cause folks to bypass Urdaneta, and after three hours, folks still end up within Pangasinan, or worse yet, Nueva Ecija.
3. Folks do not realize that to enter the SCTEX, one must get to Tarlac, as the first entry point is Tarlac City right after entering it from Gerona, with the next being La Paz (I think the landmark for this is McDo — never passed this route) and the next being the Hacienda Luisita entry point.
