BAGUIO CITY — There is something humbling about realizing tourists have explored more of your hometown than you have.
As someone from La Trinidad who had visited Mount Costa years ago, long before the pandemic rewired all our brains and social batteries, returning to the sprawling garden sanctuary hidden in the mountains of Benguet felt strangely emotional. Familiar, yet transformed. Quiet, yet alive in new ways.
And somehow, the entire place radiates forest therapy with main-character energy.
Not in the curated influencer sense. More like the kind of place where your screen time suddenly drops because your body remembers what silence feels like.
Located along Pico-Lamtang Road in La Trinidad, Benguet, Mount Costa, short for Mountain Conservation in Sustainable Tourism, has grown into one of the Cordillera’s most ambitious eco-tourism spaces.
