Going around Bacolod, I took a few photos here and there to have souvenirs of the city. The BlackBerry was very handy for this as I was able to take snapshots while we were on the move (which was all the time!). Following are a few photos taken around Bacolod.
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| The Visayas is known for their seafood and dried fish is among the best souvenirs or pasalubong that you can get from traveling to cities like Cebu, Iloilo and Bacolod. One of our staff took this photo of me amongst the daing laid out to dry under the sun. A large daing costs 20 pesos from the fisherman while a medium one (shown in the photo) is worth 10 pesos. These easily doubles or even triples once the products reach the market. |
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| Pavements around the city had to be elevated probably due to issue regarding flooding. Unfortunately, the pavements are now higher than the sidewalks. Also, the drains don't seem to be designed to be able to take in rainwater typical from the more intense downpours and typhoons we get these days. You can guess where the water will go and who will be inconvenienced by this - pedestrians. |
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| La Consolacion College of Bacolod is just beside San Sebastian Cathedral and features a main entrance and facade similar to many other similar schools in Manila, Cebu and Iloilo, which are all old cities. |
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| Bacolod is famous for its barbecued chicken. It is called inasal here and the different restaurants and eateries will have their own secret formulas for the marinade or sauce that make their chicken inasal among the best barbecues in the country. Resto or eatery staff will ask you if you prefer native or broiler chicken. Native chicken are free range and are typically smaller and with less meat than the farm-fed/grown broilers but they are much tastier (and therefore more delightful to eat). The photo above doesn't give justice to the native chicken we had for dinner. |
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| We shouldn't forget that Negros Occidental is also well-known for its sugar. There are sugarcane fields all around the province and the entire island of Negros. These were part of vast haciendas and associated with various landlords in a system that mimicked the feudal one in Europe back in the day. One can regularly see very old trucks (bagon that are sometimes of WW2 vintage) overloaded with sugar cane such as the one shown in the photo above. |
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