Pea takes a surprise trip to Baguio City with her friend JoJo, visiting a bamboo sanctuary and exploring the lively Session Road street festival. This is a lighter travel vlog showcasing Baguio's climate, scenery, and street culture, with Pea's trademark humor woven throughout. She previously lived and worked in Baguio and treats this as a personal return to a favorite city.
Arrival and first impressions
- Pea flew Philippine Airlines to Baguio and jokes that they were "giving out Filipino peas" on the flight
- Introduces her friend JoJo as her co-explorer for the trip
- Baguio's key selling points for foreigners concerned about Philippine heat: high elevation (over 5,000 feet), temperatures that can drop to 6°C, cool crisp air from vast pine forests
- The hilly terrain means brightly colored houses hang off mountainsides with incredible views
- Describes Baguio as "a very clean city with colorful flowers and well-maintained public spaces" that "really feels like a separate country within the Philippines"
Bamboo Sanctuary visit
- A peaceful, well-organized nature trail with strict signage — "silence at all times" (Pea jokes she'll struggle with that given how talkative she is)
- Pea and JoJo bond over childhood memories of making "lutang" — tiny bamboo cannons with wet paper bullets — and the larger "lantaka" kerosene-powered cannons used for New Year's celebrations
- Pea has more fun reading the signs than looking at bamboo — one-way paths, cardio trails, etc.
- Jokes the cardio trail is "not a Japanese bamboo sanctuary — it is training for the zombie apocalypse"
- Side conversation about zombie movies: JoJo likes Korean and American zombies; Pea prefers American zombies because "they don't run fast" — unlike Train to Busan where they do contortions
- Bamboo fun fact Pea shares: bamboo has gender, and the flowers are bisexual — "I'm not kidding guys, I'm not making this up"
- JoJo tests a bamboo stalk: "It's nice and hard, so I guess it's a male bamboo"
- Paid toilets at the sanctuary — 5 pesos — Pea jokes about whether they charge "by the volume or by the weight"
Session Road street festival
Session Road is Baguio's main strip, packed with people in costumes and street performers on this particular day
Pea and JoJo encounter cosplayers: Wonder Woman (Pea notes the Filipino version is "Darna — Darna Morena"), I Am Groot, a Minecraft Villager, Peppa Pig, Pikachu, and a giant turtle
The highlight encounter: a woman selling large crocheted penises
- Pea asks how long each one takes to make — the big ones take 3-4 days, the biggest take 1-2 days
- "What does your daughter think of your obsession with crocheting penises?" — "She doesn't care"
- No life models used — "just imagination"
- Pea calls it "80 pesos — for you girls out there, it's worth every inch"
JoJo's favorite costume was Pikachu; Pea liked the Minecraft Villager, Groot, Peppa Pig, and "that lady selling the big penises"
Teases the next episode: returning with JoJo to give conclusions about Baguio's cost of living, ease of travel, natural disaster risk, and social scene
