Artistic Negros Occidental – My Encounters with the Aesthetic Cities of Bacolod, Talisay, and Silay

I was fooling around on Facebook last time and saw my status a year ago when I had this field trip for my Humanities 1 class while I was still at Miag-ao, and I realized I had not shared these on my blog. I just returned to blogging in December last year.

So, I uploaded my pics and decided to post a travelogue-like series for my blog, aiming that this could be a travel blog or a food blog someday. (But yeah, this could be a travel blog. For food, I still don’t have enough “guts and glory”, i.e. money, to spend for them.)

Here is a little background of Negros Occidental from Wikipedia:

Negros Occidental (Filipino: Kanlurang Negros) is a province of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. Its capital isBacolod City and it occupies the northwestern half of Negros Island; Negros Oriental is at the southeastern half. Across the Panay Gulf and the Guimaras Strait to the northwest is the island-province of Guimaras and the province of Iloilo on Panay island. Known as the “Sugarbowl of the Philippines”, Negros Occidental produces more than half the nation’s sugar output.

Technically, Negros Occidental dwellers are called “Negrense,” as those hailing from Negros Oriental. But they are also called “Ilonggos” together with those from Iloilo, Antique, Aklan, and Capiz, which comprise Region VI. They are referred to as this because the people of Region Vi either understand or speak the major language of Iloilo, which is “Hiligaynon” but also called “Ilonggo” after the people who use it.

We toured four different spots and places in NegOcc, and I plan to post them one place daily. Yeah. But I hope I’ll do fine. Thanks for reading! 😉