For our second (and planned last) day in Negros Occidental, our itinerary brought us to the cities of Victorias and Talisay, and we were joined by our friend and her company on this trip. Here’s how our day went.
Category: Travel
The Piaya Chronicles: Bacolod City Food Trip!
Bacolod City has some of the best places to eat condensed into a relatively small area. There’s one perfect for every budget and oftentimes you need not wander far from the city center. We’ve roamed around Bacolod City to come up with our recommendations:
The Piaya Chronicles: Touring the City of Smiles, Bacolod City
Bacolod: the City of Smiles. One need not go far and wide to validate this claim, and there’s more to Negros Occidental’s capital than the Masskara Festival.
The Piaya Chronicles: The Marvelous Masks of the Masskara Festival
The Masskara Festival became the main reason of our Bacolod City visit after our half marathon event got postponed, and we were fortunate to catch a glimpse on why this event is so popular for both local and foreign tourists. With what I witnessed, I was truly impressed! This is part of a series① ②…
The Piaya Chronicles: The Ancestral Houses of Silay City
Silay City is the gateway to Negros Occidental, being home to the modern Bacolod-Silay Airport. It may not be as popular as Bacolod but it is a must to be part of your Negros Occidental itinerary. It is home to “living” historic houses, and much more!
Next Stop: Macau
Time to escape the tropics for a while and experience some mild weather without going so far and so over budget—those were some of my considerations when I accepted my friends’ invites to join them to run in Macau. Heat had always been my kryptonite when running and the opportunity to run with mild weather…
Negros Occidental Tour: The Piaya Chronicles
I’ve always been hearing good things about Bacolod City so when the opportunity came, we quickly grabbed our tickets and booked our flight. Of course we didn’t just toured around Bacolod City as we have an entire island for our discovery. There were so many unexpected things that happened to us during our trip which…
Baguio City Quickie
What’s crazier than driving up and down Baguio City from Metro Manila for a day tour? It’s doing it all over again! We did it once, and last weekend was able to do it again.
I Should Be In Boracay!
As I write this post I should have already been in the Philippines’ premier beach destination, Boracay, but instead I’m at a Korean fast food, sulking with their hot and spicy fish fillet—all because my much awaited vacation was cancelled!
Travel Junkie
The love for travel must be in my blood as I suddenly realized, without much effort, that I had scheduled a travel practically every month for the second half of the year, both local and international! And of course most of these revolve around the sport I love, running.
The Tales from the Valley Trail (Challenge)
I’ve ran onto the routes of Nuvali before, both on and off-road, and honestly I find it a bit boring especially when compared to natural trails of the mountains—until Valley Trail came along! It was a race with a lot of firsts, including my first DNF!
Visita Iglesia 2011
Visita Iglesia (Spanish: Church Visits) is the tradition of visiting seven churches on Holy Thursday as penance. Some people expand it to 14 churches with each one representing the Stations of the Cross. For this year I decided to start including this in my Holy Week habit but unfortunately I didn’t know that it should be on a Thursday, so ended up doing it on a Saturday, with an unexpected extra two churches!
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