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July 28, 2014

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Tumalog Falls Oslob

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From the whale shark, you have to go to Tumalog Falls! It’s only a few minutes away. Bluewater provided the vans for our group to take us there. WOW!! Just looking at this as we got there was so spectacular. This photo cannot interpret how I felt standing before it. You can hear a bit already of the falls from here and see it. The van stops at this point

Beautiful views

It goes downhill so I highly recommend that you walk this to appreciate the scenery and the greens

There are many motorcycle guys there and you can hire them for P 25.00 one way but again I am worried that they do not have helmets and they do not provide helmets as well. So as much as possible, walk! Uphill is very difficult so I took it going up

Jeanne walked with me and we were just so amazed at the views

Walking down some more- It is a pleasant walk because it is not yet noon time and it is not hot at the time we were there

There’s the falls

The bottom of the falls where the water ends. That’s the first thing you see

Just AMAZING!!!! TRULY SPECTACULAR!!! Love the bamboo criss crossing to create that shade in the area towards the falls

To take a full photo, you need to go into the water and take it from there. I went into the water but I did not bring my camera 🙁 So this is a peek photo 🙂

Almost full size photo but now 🙂 It is very tall.

Everyone takes photos in this spot 🙂

Ron and his “dalaga” pose by the mini falls on the side 🙂

The water is very cold and murky but you have to go in and go under the falls 🙂

Beautiful bamboos!!

Going up is difficult so almost everyone took the motorcycle 🙂

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July 25, 2014

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Negros Oriental Arts and Heritage

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Our last stop in Dumaguete was a factory where they make inlaid stone products

Welcome drinks – Honey calamansi juice 🙂

I am sure many are familiar with these products being sold in Filipiniana souvenir stores

The owner Mrs. Yee with Paz Yuchengco and with Anita Magsaysay Ho who allowed them to put he designs of her works of art in their products

James recognised this painting and could be owned by our friend, Randy, so I took a photo 🙂 Love sunflowers!!

The shop

They took us around to see how it is maid and everything is done by hand!!

the stones are just there lying around the premises of the factory

Each piece is shaped and cut to fit the design

Proudly Philippine made

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July 25, 2014

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City Tour of Dumaguete Negros Oriental

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We did the city tour of Dumaguete and visited the important landmarks.

Rizal boulevard. It’s so clean and so orderly. There is no smell

Sisters of St. Paul of Charities

Nice 🙂

There is this portion where they have tables and chairs and food vendors

Siliman University

Beautiful trees

St. Catherine of Alexandra Cathedral ( Sta. Catalina de Alexandria )

Belfry Tower

Stores selling religious articles

Beside the Belfry Tower is this very nice area with flowers. They are not just flowers but it is a Waste Treatment plant to filter the dirty water from the public market before it goes back to the ocean! What a great initiative!

Rizal Statue at Quezon Park

Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish which has a beautiful mosaic tiled image in the front of the parish.

The mosaic tiles are even numbered and come from Italy

Government offices

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Aquino Freedom Park

Negros Oriental Highschool founded in 1902 by the Americans

A few minutes away from Dumaguete we visited the San Agustine de Hippo in Bacong- the tallest bell tower in the province built in 1863 housing the more than 100 year old Pipe Organ

Pipe Organ which is more than 100 years old and made with metal from Zaragoza, Spain in 1894 for P 8,000.00 but repaired in 2007 for P 1.7m

And the gang is all complete – 5 families totalling 26 ( including 2 yayas ) 🙂

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July 24, 2014

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Budbud sa Tanjay

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We woke up very early to drive our way up to Bais. On the way, we stopped by Tanjay to have breakfast 🙂 We went to the public market

to try bud bud / bodbod 🙂

On the side, you will see guys packing the budbud

You can get plain or with chocolate – this is the chocolate they swirl into the budbud

YUM!

with tsokolate 🙂

Milk chocolate or dark

We ate some there and we took home some

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July 22, 2014

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Malatapay Wednesday Market

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Sandra recommended we go to the Malatapay Market which happens only on Wednesday. She knows we like to eat 🙂 So we made sure we were in the area on a Wednesday to see what this is all about and experience it. It is around 30 minutes aways from Dumaguete and in the town of Malatapay

It’s a street with stalls selling fresh seafood and others but mainly seafood

You can buy the seafood and have it cooked in one of the restaurant stalls

Shark :-O

They also trade livestock. This carabao has been sold already to this new owner

More livestock in that truck

Other items being sold

A must in the market! Lechon! I saw two stalls there and they were fully sold out

This was where we ate. We could not really shop for our seafood because it started to rain so we just ordered our food from this restaurant

Our table 🙂 with a tarpaulin as our table cover

Utensils were in a bowl with hot water

Puso rice which is wrapped and boiled in woven coconut leaves. It is known as hanging rice since they hang it 🙂 It’s very dense rice and is a Cebuano creation

It already has a split in the middle you just open it up 🙂

Sauce 🙂

Kinilaw na Tanguige

Lechon

Fish

Tinola

I saw this across our table 🙂 Blindmen serenading 🙂

Our bill for 10 people

We went to Apo Island then came back and on the way home this was how the market looked like 🙂

The souvenir shop was still opened

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July 22, 2014

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Torta from Zamboanguita

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We arrived in Dumaguete at around 10 am, checked in out hotel and immediately left to have lunch at Malatapay. On the way there, we stopped by this place to try Torta which is only made here. This was not in the itinerary but our tour guide Jac knows a lot about food 🙂 So he recommended this and I made sure we stopped. There is no address, it is on the left side of the road on the way to Malatapay Market – it is a few minuted before the market

Gloria’s is the original 🙂

Baked in a Clay oven/horno

Here is Gloria! Smile!! 🙂

Freshly baked

Torta is made out of tuba as a dough riser. They say you keep the bread overnight and eat it the next day. But we prefer it hot and fresh! YUMMY!!! We ate it the day after, it was still okay but it was a bit rubbery already 🙂 They like it that way 🙂

Only P 10.00 a pack or a bunch of 8 pcs

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July 19, 2014

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San Agustin Church Intramuros

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Heart2Heart loves this church! I wish our country would build more cultural buildings

I did this tour with Carlos Celdran before but loved going back again and appreciating it more

Previous entry: Carlos Celdran Tour March 11, 2008

Private crypt for the Zobel de Ayala family

Going up to the second floor. The choir practices here because it has good architectural acoustics

Entering the museum area

Beautiful courtyard

Beautiful hallways

Relatable by Juan delos Santos made in the 17th century

Gigantic wooden cabinet

Beautiful collection

There is a room with all ivory santos – priceless!!

Library

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July 19, 2014

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Dambana ni Rizal

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Inside Fort Santiago, there is a museum of Jose Rizal

How I wish we put up more museums and parks in our country

Outside, they also show where Jose Rizal did his last walk with footsteps on the road

The king of selfie 🙂

Botong Francisco’s interpretation of the execution of Jose Rizal

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July 19, 2014

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Fort Santiago

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Our first actual stop where we went down from the jeepney was Fort Santiago. It’s a beautiful place. I wish we could do more things to liven up this place. The only tour inside is the Museum of Jose Rizal. The other tour just shows remnants of World War II which is quite sad. I fear that if we tour Japanese and Americans here it would not be so nice to tell them – “This was where the Japanese imprisoned the Americans.” It feels bad enough that not many good memories were left in this place, so they should turn it into a happy place now in the future.

I wish they would just give a brief explanation as to what the place was and talk about more positive things. Or Just take them to the Museum and walk around the place. Maybe have a nice cafe where they can sit and enjoy the place since there are very few historical sites in our city. Maybe have some cultural shows and have nice quaint shops selling Philippine products and antiques

This is a happy sight for me 🙂 The guards look so elegant and reflects the past

The place would be beautiful without having to dwell too much on the war

There are some shops here which use to be prison cells – It would be nice to expand this and maybe upgrade the shops so more people will come and shop

I was with Americans while doing the tour and I felt so akward when they had to hear all the horror stories of American being imprisoned 🙁 But look it’s beautiful here

This description would have been enough. I will be sending my comments and suggestions to the tour operator 🙂

This was a beautiful part of the tour – when they showed us Binondo. Binondo is the oldest Chinatown in the world!!! You can see this from Fort Santiago