The ethnic festival of the seven tribal groups of Bukidnon: the Bukidnon, Higaonon, Talaandig, Manobo, Matigsalug, Tigwahanon and Umayamnon. The name comes from the Binukid word amul, to gather. It runs each year from the second half of February to March 10, the date Bukidnon was founded as …
A green crater lake of about 24 hectares in the hills west of the city, with water up to 26 metres deep. In the late 1990s it was named the cleanest inland body of water in the Northern Mindanao region. …
The second highest mountain in the country at 2,938 metres, in the Kitanglad Mountain Range. Indigenous people of Bukidnon hold it sacred, and it stands inside their ancestral domain. You must get permission from the Talaandig tribal leaders of Lantapan …
A Benedictine monastery on San Jose hill, built of heavy lime blocks to a design by Leandro Locsin, National Artist for architecture. The first Filipino abbot, Father Eduardo Africa, and the Malaybalay bishop of the time, Gaudencio Rosales, inaugurated it …
A mountain of rock formations and caves, 18 kilometres south of the city proper in Barangay Managok. It is known as an evacuation area in the Second World War. Trekkers and climbers go up for the view from the top, …
A vertical rock wall that climbers sleep on, the centrepiece of the Kiokong Tourism Park. It was the site of the first vertical bivouac in the Philippines. With a local outfitter, you climb the face by Single Rope Technique to …
