Sipaway Island

After Visiting Don Salvador Benedicto we go straight to San Carlos which another municipality in Negros. The plan was to visit the Sipaway island which it has a white sand beach. As per plan, this island is included. So after I park the car into one of our branch. We headed straight to san carlos port which where we ride a boat going to the island. It took us almost 30 minute before we reach the Island, from the port we ride a trike going to the beach which is the Basilia White Beach. We are the only group in the beach, I advice when you go here you already have food to to cook because there were no restaurant.  They have a cottage that you can rent which is the cheapest is 250php. We talked to one of the caretaker where we can by food they have told us that we need to go to the market to buy food which is we need to ride a trek, what we've done is we talked to the one of the caretaker if they can cook food for us and we will just gonna pay them the cost and their service and thankful they agreed. So after that we started swim in the calm clear water of the sea and play in the white sand beach. Bonding with MIS staff and also with tatay cris.

We leave the beach at about 2 PM and going back to Bacolod city

Don Salvador Benedicto

When I was in Ilo-ilo they have a place called Leon which is like Baguio because of the cold weather, Now I'm in negros, they also have a place called little baguio which is the Don Salvador. After 2 days of training we decided to visit this place, it was sunday and we leave bacolod city around 6 am in the morning and took our breakfast along the way. after 2 hours of drive we reach the marker of don salvador, we can feel the cold weather because it was surrounded by the mountain and it reminds me of kenon road going to baguio because almost the same of the zigzag road. Along the road where there's a fine tree which indicates that the place is cold that those kind of tree can live. After 2 hours of drive, we reach the marker which is a statue of lion and a marker of Phil-Korean friendship.

After picture taking on the marker, we go to San Carlos and along the way we passed by  in the viewdeck which you can see the Malatan-og waterfalls which near the boundary and also a mountain view like chocolate hills.

 Malatan-og Falls

Leon Ilo-ilo

A trip that almost cancel, the first time I been to ilo-ilo this place was included but twice has been canceled so when i back in Ilo-ilo, this time I assure that I will visit this place. As another long weekend because August 27 declared by the government in observance to National Heroes Day. I planned ahead in this trip. First we are only 3 in a group, some of MIS staff have their own trip, praise convince some of them to join us in this trip so we become 7. We buy first our food in the new market of Jaro. Then we ride a jeep going to the town of Leon and it was an hour ride going to San miguel then from san miguel we ride a tricycle going to the jeepney terminal going to leon. first we wait for a jeep as some of the driver of habal-habal want us to ride them with a fare of 500 pesos but we insist that we will ride a jeep. After 30 minutes of waiting, a jeepney came. It took us 1 hr to reach the bucari. We go first to sition camandag where the Imoy falls located. It was 1 hour walked from jump off to sitio camandag. There was a 5 pesos registration fee from the brgy. after we register we go straight to the falls which took us another 10 minutes. I was remember how mitch cried when cross the hanging bridge. When we reach the falls, I started to cook our rice for our lunch, it was already past 1 in the afternoon. We took our lunch and rest for a while then we visit the bigger water falls which is 5 minutes walked from the cottage we were staying.

When we reached the bigger falls, next thing we did is to take picture, and take a dip in cold falling water. The group had really enjoy the place as each of us taking posed of our own. 

 The Boys

The girls

After taking picute and dipping into the cold flowing water, we headed back to our cottage where saysay was still sleeping. We also took a dip into a little water falls but this time with a bigger current.

After relaxing and bonding with my colleague, we leave the place at about 4 PM and headed to our next destination. The Tabionan campsite, almost evening when we reach the tabionan campsite, everyone is tire and a good captain of the place offer us that if we would like them to cook for us and then we will just gonna pay them for our dinner. So everyone was tire, so we let them cook and we pay, they cook us native tinolang manok. 

Dinner Time

Tabionan Campsite

After dinner we had a little chat with the local and the barangay tanod then we call it a night. I was the one who wake up early. I prepare the breakfast and again bonding time and picture taking, we leave the campsite at before 9 am and headed toward the terminal.