Sipalay City is situated in the Southern part of Negros Occidental. During the travel, you will see in your journey the beautiful scenery of the white beach surrounded by mountains. The road to sipalay is already developed but along the way there are several zigzag roads built like a cliff.
How to get there: Local flights towards Silay-Bacolod airport from Manila international airports. When arriving in the airport of Silay-Bacolod, there are vans which can take you towards the South bus terminal. There are buses which are scheduled but I suggest to take a rented van or a taxi. It will cost about 250 pesos per head in a van or a taxi which can take you in a shorter time. If your are bringing a car it must be a 4 wheeler as the way is going up. The road along the way is ascending and some of the way towards one resort to another is not yet well-built and rough, so a 4x4 should br drove.
Travel time from bacolod city: about 4-5 hours by Van. Stop over is in Cauayan which is already near to the place.
Local Language used is mainly Ilonggo/ Hilgaynon although there are some cebuanos living but most of the people knows how to speak English.
What to bring: bottled water, toiletries, and food. There are some stores near to the place.
Reservations for the room should be made at least more than 3 days as there are lots of Filipinos and Foreigners who also books. You can search for a website or call anyone who have a communication with the localities or you can message me to help you out.
There are resorts such as popularly known as "Nataasan" but if your travel is budgeted, there are rented room for a family or double persons with a price range of 1000-5000 pesos per night near the resorts. We are about 5 who traveled along and our room was only 1500 pesos.
If you did not rented a van or brought a 4 wheeler vehicle, there are locals who offers ride with motorcycle. The transportation fee depends on how far you will go from your room or accommodation.
We started to travel from South bus terminal in a van around 9am then arrived to the City of Sipalay around 2pm. We rented a room near Nataasan resort. From there we decided to take lunch after a long journey with our packed marinated pork which we grilled.
There are also local stores which you can order with very cheap prices. They also serve Philippine Rum (tanduay) and several types of beer.
After taking our late lunch, we headed towards Perth (not in Australia hehe). It is a place where you can go for a lunch cruise along the water and enjoy swimming in their infinity pool with an amazing view!
This pic was only taken from the net as What they've said "not all cameras can capture the beautiful view seen by the eyes". We were just using I phone for taking pictures ;)
We hiked a little as the place was elevated.
When we arrived at the top, the view was amazing especially with the infinity pool. I can say It is ideal for a date getaways with your special someone :)
There was also a bar corner in the side of the pool where you can order some drinks.
It was already near to the sunset so headed back to the city proper to witness the sun that goes down.
The sunset was pretty and most of the people from sipalay are proud of it (well it is to be proud of !)
It was already 6:30 pm time and it's time to head for the local market to buy fresh seafoods at an affordable price. You need to bargain most of the time.
After doing your seafood shopping spree (haha); there are walking distance restaurants who cooks the food for you that depends on how you want it to be.
We ordered 1 kilo of shrimp, Blue marlin fish and other types of fishes which the names that I can't remember. We had the shrimp sautéed in garlic and the fish was divided for a grill and a traditional filipino soup which is called "Sinigang" (a type of soap which is paired with rice that is boiled with raddish, tamarind and other ingedients such as eggplant, onions and "Kangkong" (a type of green leafy vegetable grew in the philippines) along with other spices such as chili and ginger. It has a sour taste but cooked nicely.
When we finished eating our dinner along the seaside of the restaurant, we brought some other stuffs and beer in the nearest convenient store.
We headed back to our place and drink beer along the side of the beach which is just near our room.
We slept at around 1am so that we can catch up with the island hoping.
It was around 8am when we woke up for island hoping (slightly dizzy because of the beer we had the night before ;) hehehe
We had breakfast in the near stores. Afterwards, we rented a boat that will take us to the different islands. Our problem was time as we want to catch up for the next destination. The island hoping would usually be 1-3 hours depends on which place you wanted to visit. The boatman would suggest several islands from the northern and southern part. If your time is not limited I suggest you grab the chance to see all of them. The boat cost ranges from 750-2000 pesos also bases for how many passengers will be in it. Also the price varies depending on the size of the boat. However, we preferred the large one as we don't want to get drowned hahaha!
As you pass by the several islands there are houses also built by the rich families in Negros Occidental.
I dream to have this house someday ;p but I can't afford it perhaps you can help me? hahaha
Our first stop was an island with small cave....
We swam for awhile and head back to the boat where they showed us one of the resorts.
We wanted to go snorkeling so we headed towards the place where there are no heavy waves.
There were small neon blue fishes swimming and it was only 10 feet so we can see the corals beneath.
We went back after an hour and took lunch.
Our friend which resides over that place fetch us up to go towards "tinagong dagat" (hidden sea). We had lunch prior to traveling. Then we rode over the motorcycle. It took us about 30 minutes to get to our destination.
The place was elevated so It was a little bit scary to go up specially riding at the back of the motorcycle with rough road.
When we arrived, all that anxiety was fulfilling as the place was eye-catching. The entrance fee was about 30-50 pesos per person.
Again we need to hike.... There was 2 hanging bridges that connects to one island into another.
It will take you to the top with this type of view!
It was breath-taking! then we headed again to the other island
There was a pool but unluckily, there was no water as they were cleaning it.
It was getting towards sunset again, We went back to our accommodation. Our friends went with us to get drink with us in our last night.
In the morning we tavelled back to bacolod with the van where we contacted to pick us up on a specified time. The rate was once again the same as to to the transportation cost we payed.
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