This past weekend we decided to take what will probably be our last family excursion in the Philippines. Well the last one for a while at least. Now that Ryan has technically started his MBA I don't think we'll many free weekends where extra reading and catching up on assignments and work won't take over.
On Saturday around noon we started our journey to the opposite end of the island that we're on to the capital city of the only other Province which occupies Negros Island; Negros Oriental. The city is named Dumaguete and there a couple of different routes on the Island. One, all coastal, Ryan took when the kids and I were home last Halloween so we decided this time we would drive through the mountain. The map here is a little on the not so hot side but it was all I could really find that showed where we were going and how we got there. So I hope on the North you can find our starting point of Bacolod and on the Southeast part of the Island you can find Dumaguete. Well if you look a little bit more south and to the east you will see a smaller Island named Siquijor and was our final destination... more on that later.
The drive down to Dumaguete took about 5 hours since we had to make a couple of stops on the side of the road to use natures potty and to get a couple of pictures. The kids were surprisingly well behaved in the backseat being thrown around by Ryans speedy turns through the mountains. We arrived in Dumaguete at dinner time, walked down the boardwalk, ate and headed to bed. Unfortunately I have no pictures from Dumaguete itself since other then there being a million motor bikes and half of them being driven by girls, there was nothing special about it (sorry Dumaguetians). But I do have a couple pictures from the drive up that are pretty nice.
*Just a reminder to scroll over the picture to find the description of what it is*
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