Jan 23 2008
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45 minutes travel by plane from Manila to Dumaguete City. Dumaguete City is one of the most beautiful places in the Philippines, with a lot of tourist spots, and one of the most peaceful places with only 1 percent of crime rate. People who live here are cheerful, helpful, quiet and patient.
Negros has beautiful beaches and attractive places of interest, they both possess towering mountains, volcanoes, serene lakes, and spectacular dive sites. Negros Oriental, the side facing Cebu Island, has perfect destinations for adventure travellers. There are mountains, volcanoes, falls and caves waiting for exciting explorations. Mt. Talinis, a 1900 meter-high dormant volcano, has challenging trails and refreshing waterfalls stops, which are called Pulangbato and Casiroro falls and for a persevering climb, Mt. Kanlaon, a fiery volcano with an impressive ascent of 8000 ft above sea level is a good target for extreme thrills and high-level trekking skills. Caving in the are is a worthwhile travel experience. Visiting the secong longest cave in the Philippines named Odloman Cave can thrill tourists to the best of their expectations. the town of Mabinay has many caves to explore such as Pandalihan, Cayaso, Panligawan and Copie caves. All have varied impressive sights to offer.
Dumaguete is a small city where everything is within walking distance and has tricycles easily available for reaching distant places. It has many beaches intended for relaxation and day picnics. Silliman Beach, seaward of a marine ward - an organization for marine conservation, has nice beaches for day picnics. And if you want to bring home some of the province’s authentic handicrafts, the Sidlakang Negros Village is the best place to go. Pottery items, colorful baskets, stone-crafts and hand-woven fabrics are displayed for best price.
During Wednesday, the Malapatay Seaside market in the town of Zamboanguita, 5 km. south of Dumaguete, comes to life where people from around the island buy all kinds of goods, fresh seafoods and roast suckling pigs under the coconut trees lined up along the beach. it is a sight of traders, shoppers and picnickers having their seafood cooked on barbeque stalls and people drinking “tuba” a local wine at their set up tables. Zamboanguita is a fairly small town that has zoo and park built by the Lamplighters. It is a camp featuring collections of native animals and parahernalia of white monkey (a type to be reputed seen only once a year on Siquijor). If coming for a more relaxing time, there are nice resorts providing snorkeling and swimming facilities located south of the town.
