Jenny's Island Adventure

The town was known as Manlambus, a Visayan term meaning to strike with a club because its coastal waters were then abundant with fish, catching them could simply be done by using a club or lambus. It is believed that Escalante was inhabited since 11 th A.D. per artifacts unearthed by Siliman University Anthropological Team in 1975-76. It was created a municipality on November 28, 18 56 on orders of Gobernador Manuel Crespo,  with Nueva Sevilla (now Old Poblacion) as the seat of government. In 1860, Fr. Cipriano Navarro, the first Spanish Missionary assigned to the place renamed it to Escalante, after his hometown in Spain. Escalante was then a very big town with population bigger than that of Bacolod until  1939. However, Toboso, one of the biggest barangays of the town was separated from it in 1948 to be a Municipality by virtue of Executive Order No. 141 by President Elpidio Quirino decreasing its area and population. The seat of the Municipal Government was transferred fro...

A third class municipality with a population of about 40,000 , is this simple yet has a very rich in history known as a beautiful valley from atop a hill- Vallehermoso. One Sunday noon,  we went to look for a beach where we can rest and have coffee, then we passed by this town, where my friend has recently been re-elected as Vice Mayor. There were many people at the park, and we saw the signage, Town Fiesta May 14-15- and in unison we said....wooooh!.  The town of Vallehermoso in the Province of Negros Oriental is the nearest and right next to San Carlos City, Negros Occidental in the north, this is also the town where we pass thru  Canlaon City, that zigzag road located at Barangay Tagbino, with picturesque walls which actually prevents landslide along the highway,  the nearest passable route to the coastal side of Negros Oriental from Northern Negros Occidental.  Fronting the town hall is the monument of Revolutionary leader and trader  Diego de La Vinia,...

Mount Kanlaon: a view from the Municipality of Moises Padilla Known to be the highest peak in Central Visayas, Mount Kanlaon is about 24,577 hectares with an elevation of 2,456  meters or about 8,100 feet which is surrounded by the towns of  Murcia, Bago,  La Carlota, San Carlos, La Castellana in Negros Occidental and  the City of Canlaon in Negros Oriental.                                                                                                                                                                                 ...

                      It was sometime on the second of January 1995, that  i joined tourism service in my province---Negros Occidental. After 27 years,  I chanced upon  the Tourism Situationer of the Department of Tourism compiled and prepared by the late Mr. Edwin Gatia,  who was then assigned as Tourism Operations Officer of the DOT Bacolod Sub Office.  The April 27, 1876 San Sebatian Cathedral    This is an expanded version of the Annual Tourism Situationer, which has changed through the years but facts on History, Arts and Culture remain the same. Interesting as it is, let me share to you what i read on the book about the San Sebastian Cathedral In 1575 , Bacolod became a town from a small village by the river of Magsungay, under the patronage of Saint Sebastian. When Jesuits were expelled upon the order of the King of Spain  in 1767, this was the time when the village was to be...

La Castellana Lures in Negros Island Mandayao Falls The past two years have been tough for everyone ,  lockdowns,  rising cases of Covid has hampered the economy, the freedom to move around town and even drive by  the mountains or the seas for fresh air and be able to appreciate nature at its best. Glamping at Domeino Never in our wildest dreams have we thought of not being able to see our fam ily from nearby towns, cities and even from neighboring islands this long. Indeed time has come that we have to move on after having been fully vaccinated, we finally had the chance to go outdoors, safe, and refreshing.                                                              While most of us were busy staying safe, keeping a social distance, in the town of La Castellana, coffee shops came about along the highway  wi...

Probably one of the busiest time to travel is the last week of October where it falls on a long weekend plus the holiday in the country. It has been months since we planned the trip with family and we had to consider budget fares, safety and a tour package   worth the time and best for the family. Coming from a tropical country where one visitor would describe our climate today as   wet, wetter, dry and drier, we wanted to make this vacation an experience worth remembering. Trying out on another country with a cold weather. Indeed it   was already cold when we took off   with    a typhoon signal number 1 at NAIA for a four hour flight to Incheon, South Korea. First we booked for a ticket, applied for visa then after having been approved we started preparing for our outfit which included winter warm touchscreen gloves, winter bonnets, jackets and boots for women with comfortable inner shirts and scarfs plus a lip balm ...