Many times when we think of a day tour in negros occidental, the first thing that would come to our minds would be mambukal resort, campuestohan highlands, museums, heritage houses, a drive to salvador benedicto, patag, lakawon island, suyac island, carbin reef, sipaway island, jomabo island, or simply go on a food trip, from the chicken houses to the pastry shops and seafood restaurants in town.Cognitive approach to learning styles

What about the south? There are four clusters in negros occidental when we speak of development areas for tourism, where one can simply try to come up with tour packages for guests.Cognitive approach to learning styles first, we have the metro north comprising the cities of bacolod, talisay, and silay. Second is northern negros, like EB magalona down to san carlos, then we have south central, that would include inland places from bago, murcia, la carlota, and la castellana at the foot of mount kanlaon.Cognitive approach to learning styles last, but not the least for the moment, is southern negros.

Down south is an array of natural, adventure, heritage, and cultural sites and this summer a lot of tourists has been drawn to the white sandy beaches of cauayan, sipalay, and the deep and cool waters of hinobaan.Cognitive approach to learning styles recently, the southern coastal part of the province has also been declared a ramsar site. This is a wetland site designated to be of international importance under the ramsar convention which is an intergovernmental environment treaty established in 1971 by UNESCO.Cognitive approach to learning styles this is important because it deals with biodiversity, the wise use of our wetland ecosystem that would benefit the community around it.

It is for this reason that we went on a sojourn to the south recently with friends and fellow silliman university alumni from the greater bacolod chapter.Cognitive approach to learning styles there were 30 of us who gathered our resources, rented a coaster, and visited the bantayan park in bago, got acquainted with various attractions like the balay ni tan juan and the latest coffee shop in town kapehan ni juan, where we were treated to an array of rice-based delicacies, like suman, ibus and but-ong, matched with muscovado sugar, bukayo with coffee, and coolers on a hot summer day.Cognitive approach to learning styles the bago city tourism team, headed by fellow SU alumna and tourism officer rose mina, entertained the visitors.

Then we went to the town of ilog for lunch while on a river cruise.Cognitive approach to learning styles this is my second visit but we made sure the tour would be educational and a familiarization for fellow tour guides and tour operators to come up with the latest tour packages with bing montinola, jason and virna tan and yvette millanes.Cognitive approach to learning styles silliman alumni power couple jessica and caesar pacalioga, indeed, enjoyed the lunch and the cruise together with balma nandwani and becky verdun lanes with agnes miguel and cheryl iligan.Cognitive approach to learning styles lisa paguntalan brought along her telescope and was able to identify the best natural attraction during the cruise, the water birds and some migratory birds usually migrate to the south every first quarter of the year, so we joked this must be the ‘tnt’ birds, overstaying perhaps because of the wetlands which is ideal for their habitat.Cognitive approach to learning styles

There were 12 species identified by paguntalan, such as the black-naped terns, whiskered terns, javan pond heron, rufous crowned heron, black crowned night heron, cinnamon bittern curlew, little egret, intermediate and great egret, black winged stilt, white headed stilt, moorhen, white collared kingfisher, black-naped oriole, and pink-necked green pigeon, locally known as punay.Cognitive approach to learning styles

After the cruise, we tasted the best kabankalan coffee served by the city tourism team at the old city hall where the tourism office is located; the building is now being developed into a museum where two mannequins dressed in sinulog festival costume is a favorite spot for selfies.Cognitive approach to learning styles the group also visited the one town, one product site at the plaza where bags, food and negros 9 shawls are sold at very affordable prices.