Shrines and malls—popular pilgrimage sites in Baguio this Holy Week

Prayers and vigils are on par for the course every Holy Week—but so are souvenirs and services traded on the slopes of Baguio during the holiest, most somber days of the year.

Churches like Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto were filled with pilgrims and sight-seers alike, Flash Report showed on Friday. Even as pilgrims climbed the shrine's 282 steps to do the stations of the cross, others had their photos taken while wearing Igorot costumes.
 

Malls were also brimming with people who may have come down from plying a huge cross to the shrine of Christ on Mirador Hill as part of their penance.

Though malls and other business establishments were supposed to close since Thursday, Mayor Mauricio Domogan thought it best to let these establishments—and the city—earn a little during the holidays.

Good weather also graced the summer capital of the Philippines, which remains to be unaffected by the isolated rain showers predicted for the rest of the country on Saturday. — Rie Takumi/VC, GMA News