It was unlike any other waterfall I’ve seen. Gushing from a solid rock wall, the Bridal Veils Falls in the town of Tuba, cascades down from a great height before rumbling into a dark pool surrounded by craggy boulders that looked as though it has been carved eons ago. From afar, it indeed looks like a very long white veil, resting on a towering rock face.

When they said that there’s a waterfalls in the vicinity of Baguio City, it was wrong of me not to believe them.

THE VIEW FROM KENNON ROAD, EN ROUTE TO BRIDAL VEIL FALLS

Azalea Hotel introduced me to the Bridal Falls. It was part of our Baguio Itinerary, and it was my first time to visit a waterfall near the city. But near is really not quite the term for it. Located at the border of Camp 1 and 2 in Tuba—Barangay Twin Peaks—Benguet, it was a good hour of a drive along Kennon Road before we reached the hiking point to the falls.

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It was the same as my last visit, this time with the folks from Le Monet Hotel in Camp John Hay. Everyone was constantly asking if we’re there yet. No, we are not there just yet.

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BenCab’s Museum, while really not part of Baguio City, can be considered as one of the city’s nicer tourist attractions. The museum appeals not only to art aficionados but for nature and food lovers as well.

It’s my third time to visit this famous museum located on the back roads of Tuba, Benguet. After shooting the Panagbenga Festival, I bumped into the guys from Pinoy Travel Bloggers group. They were touring Baguio City with the people from Azalea Residences and invited me to join them. With really no fixed itinerary, I said okay without hesitation.

I’ve been to Baguio City innumerable times but it’s the first time I passed Kennon Road. We were hunting waterfalls and went all the way down to the town of Tuba in Benguet through the old highway that used to be the main artery to the city . We were lucky to pass a very scenic view but we got even luckier when god rays burst through the heavens and rained down upon the layers of verdant green mountains. We stopped the van off the side of the road, hurriedly unholstered our cameras and snapped away.

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A tour of the BenCab Museum would not be complete without dropping by Café Sabel for a quick meal or a coffee break.

Named after BenCab’s favorite model, the café opened the same time as the museum did. On our last visit, we were told that visitors could go directly to Café Sabel without touring the museum, saving a bit of cash that would have been the museum entrance fee (but why do that, riding all the way here and not even stepping into the museum?).  I’m not so sure if it’s still the case now.

BenCab Museum is the house that art built as one writer puts it. And indeed it is, it has everything an art lover wants, paintings, sketches, prints, sculptures, installations, carvings, and everything else in between.

The museum is divided into nine galleries, an outdoor space for sculpture exhibit and a function room for film showings and meetings.

The BenCab Gallery is where BenCab houses his four decades of work that earned him a National Artist award in 2006. The Cordillera Gallery on the other hand has his collection of everything Northern Highlands; Cordillera carvings, furniture, baskets, tools, weapons and what-nots.

This is the second time I've visited BenCab's ultra-modern museum off Baguio City’s outskirts (check my first BenCab Museum experience). It's about half an hour away from the city and is really not a part of Baguio anymore, it's actually in Tuba, Benguet. But never mind the technicalities, BenCab is Baguio.

Entrance is still the same at Php100.00 (Php80.00 for students), and the building is still crisp, modern, and seemed perpetually shrouded in thick mist.

Philippine National Artist Benedicto Reyes Cabrera, more popular known by his shortened name, BenCab, has carved his own place at Baguio by erecting his very own museum on a top of the hill at the outskirts of the city.

BenCab, has been tagged by writer Jennifer Lapira as "arguably the best-selling painter of his generation of Filipino artists." Born in Malabon, Philippines where he was influenced by his brother Salvador into the arts.  He migrated to London after marrying a British writer and from there his career in painting blossomed.  Doing exhibits from London to New York to Macau.  He went back to the Philippines after a divorce and finally settled in Baguio, forming the Baguio Arts Guild with film director Kidlat Tahimik and sculptor Ben Hur Villanueva.