Field Trip

2019

NEGROS
OCCIDENTAL
HISTORICAL • THE LAND OF NEGROS • THE MASSKARA FESTIVAL
STARTED OUT AS A WAY
GOT DIVIDED IN THE YEAR
BACKGROUND 1890 TO NEGROS TO UPLIFT PEOPLE OF
NEGROS'S SPIRITS
OCCIDENTAL AND
• NEGROS OCCIDENTAL IS ORIENTAL. ILOG WAS THROUGH MASKS
KNOWN AS THE OCCIDENTAL'S FIRST BECAUSE OF THE
SUGARBOWL OF THE CAPITAL THEN SOON DETERIORING SUGAR
PHILIPPINES. BECAME BACOLOD- NOW PRODUCTION AND FERRY
• ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS ACCIDENT.
“BUGLAS” THAT MEANT
KNOWN FOR ITS
• THE MASKS SOON
“CUT OFF” AND NEGROS MASSKARA FESTIVALS
BECAME NEGROS'S
WAS CALLED NEGROS DURING OCTOBER.
SIGNATURE SOUVENIR
BECAUSE OF THE DARK
CARRRIED THROUGHOUT
COLOR SKINNED NATIVES
THAT SPANIARDS SAW THE CURRENT
WHEN THEY ARRIVED IN GENERATION.
APRIL 1565.
QUICK FACTS AND TIPS
ABOUT NEGROS ISLAND
THE ISLAND OF NEGROS IS
THE FOURTH LARGEST IN THE
COUNTRY. IT IS DIVIDED INTO
TWO PROVINCES: NEGROS
OCCIDENTAL TO ITS WEST
WITH BACOLOD CITY AND
ILLONGGO AS THE MAIN
LANGUAGE WHILE NEGROS
ORIENTAL TO ITS EAST WITH
DUMAGUETE AS ITS FIRST
CITY AND CEBUANO AS THE
LANGUAGE.
• GENERALLY, THE
• NEGROS IS KNOWN
TODAY AS ISLAND OF NEGROS IS
“SUGARLANDIA” AS IT LAID-BACK. THE MAIN
PRODUCES MORE THAN MODES OF
HALF OF THE COUNTRY'S TRANSPORTATION ARE
SUGAR CANE. BUSES IF YOU ARE
• ONE NOTABLE PEAK IN TRAVELING FROM ONE
THE ISLAND IS MOUNT TOWN TO ANOTHER
KANLAON, THE THIRD AND JEEPNEYS WHILE
MOST ACTIVE VOLCANO TRICYCLES ARE USED
IN THE COUNTRY WHICH FOR SHORT DISTANCES.
CAN BE ACCESSED BY TAXIS ARE ONLY
TWO MAJOR TRAILS THAT AVAILABLE IN BACOLOD
WOULD LAST FOR ABOUT CITY.
2 DAYS.
 THE RUINS
• THE RUINS OF TALISAY, NEGROS
OCCIDENTAL STANDS AS AN ICONIC
YET FINESSE REPRESENTATION OF
LOVE AND SELFLESSNESS. THE RUINS
WAS THE REMAINS FROM THE GRAND
MANSION OF DON MARIANO LACSON
FOREGOING THE DEATH OF HIS FIRST
WIFE, MARIA BRAGA. THE MANSION
CAME TO BE THE PURPOSE OF HIS
RESIDENCE SAME GOES AMONG HIS
UNMARRIED CHILDREN.
 FOREST CAMP NATURE RESORT
• THIS RESORT IS ONE OF A KIND DUE TO ITS
VERY SCENIC AND INSTAGRAM WORTHY.
ALSO, THIS ATTRACTION HAS CHEAP
ENTRANCE FEE OF 100PESOS. IN ADDITION,
THE FOREST CAMP IS KOWN FOR ITS COOL
PLACE WHICH ADDS IN THE OVERALL
EFFECT IN ATTRACTING TOURISTS AND THE
ARCHITECTURE OF THE PLACE IS NATURAL.

• IN TERMS OF TRAVELING, IT IS HASSLE-FREE

BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO
REACH THE FOREST CAMP AND THE CLOSE
DISTANCE PROXIMITY FROM THE CITY IS
APPROXIMATELY A 20-MINUTE TRAVEL.
MUST-TRY DISHES AND
DELICACIES
CHICKEN
INASAL
• JUST AS SUGAR
PLANTATIONS ARE
SCATTERED ALL OVER
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, SO
ARE THE CHICKEN INASAL
RESTAURANTS AND STALLS IN
BACOLOD. IT'S PRACTICALLY
SIGNATURE DISH OF THE
CITY. CHICKEN INASAL OR
GRILLED CHICKEN IS ONE OF
THE WELL-KNOWN
DELICACIES IN BACOLOD CITY,
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL.
SEAFOOD
SEAFOOD PIAYA
• THE CITY, YOU HAVE • IT IS A FLAKY FLAT BREAD
PLACES CALLED “PALA- WITH DARK MUSCOVADO
SUGAR. THE EXTERIOR IS ALSO
PALA” WHERE A SPRINKLED WITH SESAME
VARITETY OF FRESH SEEDS TO GIVE IT A NUTTY
SEAFOOD IS PUT ON DIMENSION. YOU CAN
USUALLY BUY THESE IN PACKS
DISPLAY AND YOU
CHOOSE WHAT YOU AT PASALUBONG CENTERS
AND YOU'LL ALSO FIND IT
WANT AND INSTRUCT OFFERED IN UBE FLAVOR.
THEM ON HOW YOU
WANT IT COOKED.