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Lakes

Posted on 04 June 2009 by admin

Balanan Lake in Siaton and Sibulan’s Twin Lakes Balinsasayao and Danao are the centerpieces of Negros Oriental’s biggest and most important ecotourism sites. Read More

Sidlakang Negros Village

Posted on 15 May 2009 by admin

Sidlakang Negros Village was born out of a felt need for a site that would stimulate tourism development and agricultural endeavors in the Province’s 25 LGUs, Read More

Dumaguete Belfry

Posted on 12 May 2009 by admin

The best-known landmark in the Province, the Campanario was built to serve as belfry and look-out tower during a time of frequent moro raids. Read More

The Boulevard

Posted on 12 May 2009 by admin

The promenade by the bay is Dumaguete City’s tourism hub. Built up beginning 1916 the 780-meter strip, shaded by venerable old trees, has green lawns, benches and ornate park lamps. Read More

Caves

Posted on 07 May 2009 by admin

The are numerous caves throughout the entire Province but extensive karst phenomena in Mabinay ensured its claim to being the CaveTown of Negros Oriental. Read More

Waterfalls

Posted on 07 May 2009 by admin

Negros Oriental’s tourism assets are refreshing for the waters that cascade down rugged mountainsides into popular swimming calderas. Read More

Beaches

Posted on 07 May 2009 by admin

Negros Oriental is endowed with over a hundred kilometers of white, golden, or dark sand beaches. Read More

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Balanan – Sandulot, Siaton

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

An expansive mountain resort developed around Balanan Lake, a humerus-shaped body of water, 25 hectares in surface area, Read More

White Sand Bar – Manjuyod

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

A 7-kilometer-long strip of white sand beach in the middle of North Bais Bay. Ideal for swimming and snorkeling. Read More

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Apo Island

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

A 72-hectare, 200-meter high volcanic island about 5 kilometers off the municipality of Dauin. Read More

Amlan

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

Nineteenth-century chronicler Licinio Ruiz mentions Amblan, a settlement said to have been named after a superior kind of guava. The town was made a parish independent of Tanjay in 1848, was renamed New Ayuquitan in 1912, became Amlan after WW II. Read More

Ayungon

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

It is said that Ayungon is derived from the name of a deaf man, “Ayung,” who cut down a “dungon” tree. Read More

Bacong

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

The Province’s first town to the south of the capital may be its smallest, but it has some big things going for it. Read More

Basay

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

Upon its separation from Bayawan in 1971, Basay became Oriental Negros’ southernmost town, with Negros Occidental at its rear. Read More

Bindoy

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

Oriental Negros’ lone municipality named after a native of distinction , Bindoy started out as barrio Payabon of Manjuyod. Read More

Dauin

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

Origin of Name: There are three versions, the first two being interrelated; first, there was a majestic tree that towered over all trees that the Spaniards asked for its name, which was Calawin. Read More

Guihulngan City

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

A recent photographic expedition to Guihulngan brought back some remarkable shots of numerous geologic formations in Hinakpan that resemble the Chocolate Hills of a neighboring island. Read More

Jimalalud

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

Boundless sugar cane fields, typical of the northern landscape, green Jimalalud most months of the year. Read More

La Libertad

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

The early settlement was called Hinoba-an, a barrio of Jimalalud. One story has it renamed as La Libertad to mark the residents’ successful repulse of the marauding brigands that regularly plundered the north at that time. Read More

Mabinay

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

Folklore has it that the beautiful Binay fell in love with the son of her father’s rival chieftain. Her father ended the affair by having her lover killed. Read More

Manjuyod

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

An Augustinian Recollect, Fr Antonio Moreno, is credited with creating Manjuyod: he spearheaded construction of its town hall, laid out the plaza and municipal streets. Read More

Pamplona

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

Barrio Tampa of Tanjay reminded the parish priest of his Pamplona hometown in Spain: Tampa spilled about the foot of  Cambunyao mountain just as Pamplona sprawls at the foot of the Pyrenees. Read More

San Jose

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

Seven kilometers of attractive shoreline along Tañon Strait give San Jose two of the Province’s shortest take-off points to Cebu – Tampi and Jilocon, Read More

Santa Catalina

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

Miguel de Loarca, a member of the 1572 Legaspi expedition, was said to have encountered in the southern coast of Negros Island three warring settlements called Lunsod, Secopan and Cawitan. Read More

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Siaton

Posted on 28 April 2009 by admin

Often referred to as the rice bowl of the Province, Siaton’s terrain is more than flat paddies. Read More