L'Fisher Bacolod

Well, starting off my big adventure in the sleepy town of Bacolod. The folks here are a hospitable lot, and gave me free lodging for a poor tourist like me. Lol.

No seriously, it pays to have an online friend willing to give you a hand. ;)

Checking my connecting flights off for Sydney! See you in my next post!

... visiting the Philippines we are amazed more people don’t visit for holidays – the beaches alone blow places like Thailand out of the water!

Number of photos taken…

A mind boggling 19399 (or 71.25 Gb) or a photo every 22 minutes, night and day – we are slowing down (just a little). All 3 cameras we own are now ...

... it started fine but got really quite sicky. I was sat next to 3 girls - 2 cousins and their Aunt and it was a really quick journey as they were al so nice! We chatted the whole journey straight and befoe I knew it I was on dry land again - nice to chat with some people. So I arived and got a taxi to the accomodation which was fine but in the middle of nowhere - much like my place in ...

... Watershed which has been proclaimed as a critical watershed by virtue of Presidential Proclamation 604 of 1990. Tributaries of Bago River, the biggest in Negros Occ. originate from the proposed PNOC buffer zone in Sitio Pataan, Mailum, Bago City. The river systems of Mt. Kanla-on provide water to 158,500 hectares of land in Negros Occidental. The biodiversity of Mt. Kanla-on is ...

... the government on their decision to allow the entry of PNOC-EDC on their geothermal project in MKNP. One of the trekkers even fell from the cliff and fortunately sustained minor injuries. "The two-day Protest Climb is a success and we believe that we have defied established rule and policies on Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park that is only subservient to a private corporation like PNOC-EDC". Green Alert said. The climbers who ...

... to the guidelines of the DENR for threatened plant species. Cutting of naturally growing trees in protected areas and their buffer zones is supposedly prohibited. This is especially true with respect to threatened species such as Almaciga. Giving PNOC-EDC cutting permits has serious policy implications. It also demoralizes our forest warden volunteers (Task Force Ilahas and Kanlaon Green Brigade ...

... 3 for the Road at Bigby's and it immediately went up to the best sweet things I've eaten. I love it! That meal was taken care of the group. I bet that made the little concoctions sweeter. Yum! Night was young and we are still hours away before the departure of our bus to Cebu. I figured that I could just spend my waking hours experiencing as much Bacolod as I could and just sleep in bus. So, we dropped off our stuff at a friend's flat and I got to get ...

Patag is 50 kilometers from Bacolod City and it's great for a daytrip as well as a jump off point for trekking in the North Negros Forest Reserve. The reserve covers more than 80,000 hectares of forestland which are protected under the Philippine Natural Park system. This blog shows pictures of three of Patag's falls.

So after Kalibo's Ati-Atihan, I was not too excited to see yet another festival honoring Senor Santo Nino. Really, how different can it be? But as my sister insists, "It is better!" But really, she justed wanted Alain to take her to a cock fight, that's all. So there we were, me growing weary of the unsanitary conditions of the street vendors/stalls, Lily full-force in her South-East-Asian mode (will eat anything as long as she did not see it prepared). I would only go ...

Now at this point, you would imagine me to be painting a pretty grim picture of my homeland judging from my last two entries, and yes, it may appear that I am being overly negative, but I am telling it from a local's perspective - not that of a starry-eyed first time tourist. I tend to come across as blunt, but I hate sugar-coating the sad facts and I call it as I see it. But ...