Mambukal Resort Slide for Life Video

Have you tried the Mabukal Resort Slide for Life? Not yet? Well, you are missing a lot. Watch this video if you are not yet convinced to try the Slide for Life. Yes, I’m one of the two shrieking women in the video. Once you get the hang of it, you will actually be looking [...]

Meet Your New Tour Guides

August 17, 2010 – Our graduation was the culmination of our journey as aspiring tour guides.  Yet another journey begins, that of us taking a bigger responsibility of promoting Negros Occidental as a tourist destination. Taking part in the 2nd NITI Tour Guiding Course has been a most rewarding one. Not only did I meet [...]

We’re at Negros Daily Bulletin Too!

The Negros Daily Bulletin has featured our posts in their weekend edition for several weekends already under the Blog It column.  Fellow Negros bloggers Eric of Byahilo and Ruby Ricafrente of PinayMommyOnline were also previously featured in the same column. It’s a good thing that our mainstream media are beginning to recognize blogs as important [...]

NFEFI Biodiversity Conservation Center: A Haven for Endangered Negros Wildlife

The Negros Forests and Ecological Foundation, Inc. (NFEFI) has been fighting to reforest hundreds of hectares of denuded forest areas since 1984. Intensive agriculture and logging has reduced the forest cover of Negros to only 4% by 1992 from almost 95% forest cover 150 years ago. Deforestation does not only strip the forest of endemic [...]

Spotting the Rarest Deer in the World

The Visayan spotted deer (Cervus alfredi) is considered as the most endangered deer in the world. They used to be widely distributed in the six islands in the Visayas but are now considered extinct in four of these islands and are now believed to exist in the islands of Negros and Panay. It is listed [...]

Saving the Visayan Warty Pig

The Visayan warty pig (Sus cebifrons) or  baboy talunon, as we locally call it, is considered the most critically endangered species of wild pigs in the world. The Visayan warty pigs are endemic to the six islands in the Visayas but are already extinct in four islands. They can only be found now in their [...]

Nine Lives Are Not Enough to Save the Visayan Leopard Cat

The first time you see a Visayan leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis rabori) kitten, the first thought that might cross to mind is Puss in Boots in the movie Shrek. They look so adorable and vulnerable that you would want to take them home as pets. They are vulnerable, yes, but they are not suitable as [...]

No Freedom of Flight for the Visayan Tarictic Hornbill

The Visayan Tarictic Horbill (Pedelopides Panini) is endemic to the Philippines in the islands of Negros , Guimaras, Masbate,  Panay and offshore islands of Sicogon and Pan de Azucar. The tarictic hornbill is now considered endangered specie with only about that 1,800 remaining in their natural habitat in the islands of Panay and Negros. The [...]

Bird Show at SM City

Bird lovers will surely enjoy the “My Fair Feathered Friends” bird show at SM City Bacolod scheduled on July 31 to August 1, 2010. This event is in cooperation with the La Castellana Zoological and Botanical Garden and the La Castellana Tourism Office. The bird show will feature the bird collection owned by DENR-licensed breeder [...]

A Weekend Trip To Melba’s Farm

Somebody asked me, upon learning that I’m into tour guiding, where in Negros Melba’s Farm is. You see, she was amazed to see huge billboards of Melba’s Farm along EDSA. She thought the owner must be very rich to afford it. Or he could be the owner of that billboard too, I said. In this [...]

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