TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

IN NEGROS OCCIDENTAL

Malatan-og Falls

Photo from: https://kenthstopwandering.wordpress.com/2017/01/26/malatan-og-falls-of-don-salvador-benedicto-negros-occ/

Malatan-og Falls is also known as “Cigarette Falls” due to its appearance from afar. Just looking at it after an hour of travel from Bacolod made your stress relieved. You’ll see its beauty from the view deck (or lantawan to locals) near the roadside. This is another favorite stopover for tourists especially who loves photo op. There are some vendors there selling chichiria like banana chips, taro chips, chicharon and cornik.

Below the viewing deck is the entrance down to a long trek to the falls. You need to register and hire a guide to get there. The trek usually takes an hour. Sadly, we didn’t have much time to go there. To represent the TupangGala, we sent our trusty Buknoy, the flying drone, and took a close footage of the falls. We just sighed as we view what Buknoy sees on its camera, imagining we were there, swimming and enjoying the waters. Well, the stopover still worth it for us, first-timers. Read More: http://www.tupanggala.com/dsb-places-to-see/

Panaad Park and Stadium

Photo from: https://philnews.ph/2017/08/25/provincial-engr-p40-m-budget-panaad/

Panaad Park and Stadium is a place where you can hang out with your friends, take selfies, and make recreations with your family. The stadium is constructed in August 1997 and finished in April 1998 for the Negrense, promotes sports and their local products that only found in Negros Occidental.

The best features of Panaad Park considered by the city government as the ‘World Class’ facilities can be used by local athletes and students for their sport activities. The stadium of have 15, 000 seating capacity and more than 7000 for bleachers, rubberized track for athletes of Track and Field, Olympic-sized pool with a 6-feet deep, Basketball court, landmark replicas of different cities of province, and Football field where the Philippine national football team or Philippine Azkals played against Mongolia in 2013. Read More: https://attracttour.com/2014/08/panaad-park-and-stadium/

Suyac Island Mangrove Eco-Park

Photo from: https://www.rediscoveringnegros.com/january-june-2018/suyac-island-mangrove-eco-park

The Suyac Island Mangrove Eco-park is a community-based eco-tourism site just offshore from Sagay City, Negros. It is managed by Suyac Island Ecotourism Attendants Association in which all of the members are residents of the island. The park is home to one of the oldest and largest Sonneratia Alba mangrove on Negros Island, and includes other mangrove species.

It is located in the center of the 32,000-hectare Sagay Marine Reserve, the first of its kind in the country and established sometime in the 80s. It is now recognized nationally and internationally as one of the most successful marine conservation programs in the Philippines and has won the prestigious Gawad Galing Pook award in 1997. Read More: https://www.islandhoppinginthephilippines.com/visayas/negros/suyac-island-mangrove-eco-park/