Just got back from my little trips
My trip was only planned for 2 days in Bacolod for the Panaad Festival, but in an unexpeted turnaround a schoolmate invited us to join them in an overnight in Silay ... with some P300 left in my pocket, I was a bit skeptical to join them. Fortunately, they texted that it will be "all-expense-paid" ...YES!!!
Here's the breakdown of this little 4 day adventure in Bacolod, the city of smiles, and Silay, the Paris of Negros:
My friends and I were supposed to leave Iloilo via Roro to Bacolod at 12:00nn, as usual I came to our meeting place (in school) late at about 11:00am, well ahead of the planned 9:00-10:00... During that time, I still had to go to my classmate's house to borrow his camera.
So I did, but when I got there he said that he left it in my other friend's house ... which was on the other side of the city (OMG!). It was already 11:20ish, and we had to ride the jeep ... the stupid jeep who was sooooo slow because he wanted to get the jeep full before moving. When we got to our friends house, bad luck struck us again (well just me), the camera was not THERE! it was with my other stupid friend whom I greeted at school a while earlier.
I just had to take the taxi, it was already 12:00nn in my watch. I arrived at school got the camera and told the taxi to make a run for it to the port...
When I got there, my friends were already sitting at the terminal smiling and giving me a 'look', like they're going to obliterate me for being at least 30min late ... just my luck, the RORO had already left us.
Not considering defeat, I thought of Plan B. There are 2 roro terminals in Iloilo City and 1 in far away Dumangas and since the Tourism office of the city hall is just a walk from where we are, I though that we could inquire about the schedule of other RORO terminal. So we got there and then the nice lay showed us the schedule of another RORO shipping line, it said there's a ferry leaving Iloilo at 3:00pm and the fare is just P80 ... with faith, we boarded a jeep and headed to the other side of the river to find the other RORO terminal but when we got there, we were informed that the RORO trip for Iloilo-Bacolod was cancelled a year ago pa ... ARGH!!!
With no hope of taking the RORO and pay less amount for the transport to Bacolod, we surrendered and boarded the OceanJet Fastcraft, which cost us almost twice the amount for a RORO.... My money was only a little less than P1000 and now it has been reduced by a third because of me ... because I was late :(
After 1 hour, we arrived at Bacolod and went directly to the City plaza to find the tourism office of the Bacolod City Hall (it was raining by the way). We then asked for some brochures and left for my tita's house where we will be staying.
Then after unpacking, we left for the Panaad Park and Stadium for the Panaad Festival, the mother of all festivals in Negros.
Here's the breakdown of this little 4 day adventure in Bacolod, the city of smiles, and Silay, the Paris of Negros:
My friends and I were supposed to leave Iloilo via Roro to Bacolod at 12:00nn, as usual I came to our meeting place (in school) late at about 11:00am, well ahead of the planned 9:00-10:00... During that time, I still had to go to my classmate's house to borrow his camera.
So I did, but when I got there he said that he left it in my other friend's house ... which was on the other side of the city (OMG!). It was already 11:20ish, and we had to ride the jeep ... the stupid jeep who was sooooo slow because he wanted to get the jeep full before moving. When we got to our friends house, bad luck struck us again (well just me), the camera was not THERE! it was with my other stupid friend whom I greeted at school a while earlier.
I just had to take the taxi, it was already 12:00nn in my watch. I arrived at school got the camera and told the taxi to make a run for it to the port...
When I got there, my friends were already sitting at the terminal smiling and giving me a 'look', like they're going to obliterate me for being at least 30min late ... just my luck, the RORO had already left us.
Not considering defeat, I thought of Plan B. There are 2 roro terminals in Iloilo City and 1 in far away Dumangas and since the Tourism office of the city hall is just a walk from where we are, I though that we could inquire about the schedule of other RORO terminal. So we got there and then the nice lay showed us the schedule of another RORO shipping line, it said there's a ferry leaving Iloilo at 3:00pm and the fare is just P80 ... with faith, we boarded a jeep and headed to the other side of the river to find the other RORO terminal but when we got there, we were informed that the RORO trip for Iloilo-Bacolod was cancelled a year ago pa ... ARGH!!!
With no hope of taking the RORO and pay less amount for the transport to Bacolod, we surrendered and boarded the OceanJet Fastcraft, which cost us almost twice the amount for a RORO.... My money was only a little less than P1000 and now it has been reduced by a third because of me ... because I was late :(
After 1 hour, we arrived at Bacolod and went directly to the City plaza to find the tourism office of the Bacolod City Hall (it was raining by the way). We then asked for some brochures and left for my tita's house where we will be staying.
Then after unpacking, we left for the Panaad Park and Stadium for the Panaad Festival, the mother of all festivals in Negros.
posted by chYmera at
9:40 AM
1 Comments:
wow grabe gid pag panaad. ga lalain ko gling sng street kadaku na pro daw ma orasan kapa ya lakat kg lusot ky tama ka gutok. pro njoy gd ko gyapon. enjoyable katama. www.metrobacolod.cq.bz .
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