Monday 3 December 2012

Good Shepherd Convent



The Good Shepherd Convent is located in the Mines View Barangay. Within walking distance from the souvenir shops at Mines View Park, the main entrance is along Gibraltar Road. The convent is typically the next stop for visitors from Mines View Park. For those with vehicles, it is easiest to enter the convent's gate, taking the driveway leading up to the parking lot within the compound. This is the compound center where you find people waiting to be served by the store salesclerks.




This store is popular for the different products made by the Good Shepherd nuns. Visitors coming up to the city who are familiar with items sold in the store always make it a point buy fruit preserves, strawberry and ube jams, cashew and peanut brittle, and coco jam. Most of these products are also available in the Baguio Public Market and at other outlets within the city. Money generated from the sale of these products is used for the different charities sponsored by the Good Shepherd nuns. It is also used for the care and continuance of the convent.




The compound houses other buildings and facilities. Aside from the convent, there is also a Retreat House for college and high school students. At one end of the parking lot is an observation deck with a magnificent view of the distant Cordillera Mountains and the valley below. There is also a garden with assorted trees and colorful flowering plants where you get to smell the fresh pine-scented mountain air.



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