Silventures: Bacolod

My boarding pass

After months of planing, actually years! I finally got to go to Bacolod! Thanks, to the crazy sale from Cebu Pacific last March! This is the biggest move I have ever done when it comes to vacations! After all, I went alone! Here are the photos:

so bright!

Do you see the good sign?

Bye Luzon!

Hello Visayas!

The flight took about an hour or so! We landed at Bacolod-Silay International Airport past 1pm! As soon as my friend picked me up, we when to Royal Am Rei, then we had dessert at Calea. It was surprisingly close to my hotel!

Touch down!

I love this door! Welcome to Calea! 

My tour guide AKA Wella has school, so after going to Calea, I went back to the hotel. Around 4pm, Wella picked me up again to go to The Ruins. Sadly, I did not get to see the golden hour everyone has been talking about! It was cloudy that day! It was still an awesome place to visit. Entrance fee is Php 100. Transportation is easy if you can't speak the local language! You can use Grab, in which I was told is still new in the province! We have dinner at Chicken House Restaurant! Legit Bacolod inasal!

The house that was build because of love

Dinner!

Look at the pretty hotel I'm staying at

Day 2 in Bacolod. I got up early for a trip to Mambukal! Took us about an hour to get there! It is resort within a forest! Entrance fee is Php 50, if I remembered correctly. There are a number of things you can do there! Like hiking to see waterfalls, taking photos of butterflies, enjoying the sulfur hot springs, getting a massage and seeing fox bats!

We were able to reach up to the 3rd falls only as the path to falls number 4 to 7 is being fixed. Then we spend about 2 hours at the Japanese Ofuro. It was amazing! I did not want to leave that place. The water was awesome and by back pain disappeared! When did try the massage at the Blade Spa too! That was super relaxing as well! I fell asleep! :)

Welcome to Mambukal Resort

This the starting point for the trekking

Klea at the Japanese Ofuro

This was one of the rooms inside the Blade Spa

You get free drinks after the massage too!

I spend dinner at Wella's place. Dinner was love! Thanks to her mom! It has been a while since I have seen their family! It was great! After, that we when to the New Government Center. It kinda looks like the White House of Bacolod!

NGC up close

New Goverment Center or NGC

Day 3: time to leave. My flight back to Manila was a scheduled at 9am, so I has to leave by 7am to catch it! Good thing there was a Bong Bong's close to my hotel too! That's about it! Thanks for reading!

Bye Visayas!

This vacation was shorter that I expected! So, I plan to do it again. Just need to save for it! Also, now that I have a GetGo card, I can have more perks!

I just realized after almost 10 years, I was able to fly of somewhere again. The last one was in 1996.