A community-run marine sanctuary about 45 minutes by boat, with turtles and a hard coral garden. The island is volcanic and covers 74 hectares, 7 kilometres off the southeastern tip of Negros and 30 kilometres south of Dumaguete. Apo means …
The seafront promenade, busiest at sunrise and again in the evening when the stalls open. The buildings along it are mostly old sugar mansions and ancestral houses turned into hotels, coffee shops, restaurants and bars, and the water gives a …
Dumaguete's own festival. Sandurot means welcome, and the re-enactment on the boulevard tells how the city took in the peoples who landed here.
A week of parades and town booths, held in Dumaguete every October. Each town and city in Negros Oriental keeps a booth with its own products and its own sights, and the province calls the week its festival of festivals. A float parade and a street dancing competition …
A parish church built partly of brick, a break from the coral stone used for most Spanish-period churches. The Augustinian Recollects built it in 1865 and placed it under Saint Augustine of Hippo. The belfry has a caracol stairway, and …
A complex volcano of 1,862 metres, the second highest mountain on Negros Island after Mount Kanlaon. It is the tallest peak of the range called the Cuernos de Negros, the Horns of Negros. The mountain stands 9 kilometres southwest of …
The festival of festivals: every town and city of Negros Oriental brings its own festival to Dumaguete for ten days, with booths, street dancing and a food fair.
One of Bayawan City's waterfalls, Niludhan Falls, lies in Negros Oriental. Local tourism listings group it with two other named waterfalls, Banay-Banay Falls and Lourdes Falls, as some of the city's outdoor sights.
The oldest American-founded university in Asia, with an acacia-lined campus and an anthropology museum. The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions opened it in 1901 as Silliman Institute, an elementary school for boys. It carries the name of Horace Brinsmade Silliman, …
The highest peak in the whole Visayas at 2,465 metres, and the high point of Negros Island and of Negros Oriental. The city sits below it and takes its name from it. Kanlaon means the place of Laon, a pre-colonial …
The Bayawan Nature Reserve is a natural area within Bayawan City, Negros Oriental. It is one of the outdoor sites the city names in its own tourism listing, next to its coastal boulevard and city plaza.
