Negros Oriental
Dumaguete City
(The City of Gentle People)
February 11-14 2014
Day 1 Feb. 11, 2015
We arrived at Sibulan Airport Dumaguete City around 830am from Manila via Cebu Pacific Airline.
Checked In at Bethel Guest House located at Rizal Avenue, Dumaguete City (along Bay Boulevard).
This Hotel offers an affordable room rates with good quality service, your satisfaction is guaranteed.
Our Room...
Magnificent view from our room...
Strolling around Dumaguete City..
At the Bay... Along Rizal Avenue.
Provincial Capitol...
Our Ride going to City Plaza...
Dumaguete Cathedral...
The Belfry...
Rizal Park...
The City Hall...
Across the Park is the Burgos St., where we had our refreshment... Fruit Salad..
Went to Robinsons Mall...
The Bay Blvd. at night...
Street Foods...
HOW TO GET THERE:
1. From our Hotel, a walk going to the Bay Blvd.
2. Tricycle ride to Provincial Capitol.. fare P8 per person,
3. Tricycle to Church.. fare P8 per person.
4. Across the Church you will find the Park and the City Hall.
5. Tricycle to Robinsons Mall... fare P8 per person.
6. Tricycle to Bethel Guest House... fare P8 per person.
Day 2 - Feb. 12, 2015
Our destination for this day at the Town of Valencia to visit the Casaroro Falls. A very special day as we celebrate the birthday of my wife.
So we had a little celebration at our room.
We started our journey at the Bay Blvd.
Silliman University....
Our Ride to the Town of Valencia...
At the Valencia...
We hired Habal-Habal to take us to the Casaroro Falls...
As we started the adventure, we needed to go down to 335 steps and start trekking going to the falls.
Finally... we had reached the Casororo Falls.
Our next destination, at the Forest Camp....This comes first before the Casaroro Falls.
Quick dip at the pool which waters comes from the Casaroro Falls. Feels so good to swim.
At the Hanging Bridge..
At the Tree House...
Late Lunch around 130pm...
House Specialty... Forest Camp Buko Halo-Halo...
This is Albert Luzana our service rider, you can trust this guy and he will take you to the falls safely. He can be also your tour guide. You may find him at their terminal at Valencia Town Plaza.
Our Dinner at Sans Rival Bistro located along Rizal Ave. The home of famous Sans Rival.
Back to our hotel.
HOW TO GET THERE:
1. From Bay Blvd. Rizal Ave. take a walk going to Silliman University.
2. From Silliman University, a tricycle going to the Jeepney terminal to reach the town of Valencia... fare P12 each 15-20 minutes ride.
3. From Valencia Proper hire a Habal-Habal P400 per motorbike (roundtrip), maximum of 2 persons per bike. 20-30 minutes travel time for 9.4 kilometers.
4. Jeepney back to Dumaguete City.
Day 3 - Feb. 13, 2015
Our destination... the Balinsasayao Twin Lake located at the town of Sibulan.
Our. Ride...
From this point you will reach the Balinsasayao Lake within 30 minutes for a 13.5 km motorbike ride. Luckily, according to our service rider, the long stretch of that road going to the lake had just finished the pavement construction and only about 200 meters are under construction.
Visitor's registration area.... 900 meters from the drop off point...
Drop Off Point...
The Enchanting Lake...
This is Jason our service rider.... He's good driver, very careful, He can take you to Lake Balinsasayao safely. You may find him at their terminal at Sibulan Town Proper (junction) near Municipal Office at the Hi-way towards Lake Balinsasayao. You May also contact him at 09364589322 for schedule of trip.
Late in the Afternoon, when we hangout at the Bay... We met this Aspin Dog. We were amazed when his master threw his tennis ball to the sea and ordered his dog to get it for him. Really amazing...
At night we had our dinner at ISDABES Grill Haus located at San Juan St. Dumaguete City. From their name we were expecting of some variety of sea foods but there are only few and found the price quite not reasonable. Instead we just ordered an ordinary dishes like Boneless\Bangus, Grilled Chicken and Ampalaya.
HOW TO GET THERE:
1. From the City proper you can ride a tricycle to bring you to Ceres Bus Station, then take a bus bound north and ask the driver to drop you off to the junction leading to the way to Lake Balinsasayao. From there hire a Habal-Habal....fare tricyle P8 each, bus P20 each. Habal-Habal P400each.
On our case, we hired tricycle to directly brought us to the Town of Sibulan, at the Habal-Habal station...fare P500 per person(but we bargain it for P400)...travel time 30-45 minutes.
Day 4 - Feb, 14, 2015
Celebrating Heart's Day... Happy Valentine's Day...
Our last day of stay here at the City of Gentle People, we decided to go out and hang out at the Bay and around the City Plaza rather than staying at our hotel room..(This was around 8AM).
Went to Public Market to try their local Delicacies... called Budbod.
Budbod...
Simply I can say it's a Suman... May be this is the version of Suman by Dumaguetenios.. Best to be eaten with hot chocolate or coffee.
After a short stroll and last glimpse at the City, went back to hotel to prepare for check out. Since our flight was 455PM, we requested the Bethel Guest House to allow us to check out late...Luckily, they granted our request until 1PM. Thank you Bethel. May be we can hangout again at the Bay until 2PM before we heading to the Airport for our flight to Manila via Cebu Pacific.
We are so grateful to see the Province of Negros Occidental. Seeing wonderful places around this Province is so Priceless. The people are good truly "The Gentle People" not just in Dumaguete City but to the entire Province. We had so much fun... Until next time we will see you again..
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