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Other Attractions at the Bacolod Polo Club
(Somewhere in Brgy Alangilan)

Photos by: Chrysee Samillano (Facebook Account)

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Rediscover Alangilan campaign on
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

The Bacolod City government has launched a program “Revisit, rediscover Alangilan” to promote Barangay Alangilan as a tourist destination in the island of Negros in celebration of Tourism Month.

This will be an ongoing program of the city, Bacolod Councilor Homer Bais, chairman of the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Tourism, said during an eco-tour with members of the media Saturday in Alangilan.

Bais said they want to package Brgy. Alangilan since it has a big potential of becoming a tourist destination and it only needs the government’s intervention in terms of promotion.

He said the barangay has a polo field, an ecological resort, a tree park, and there is a man-made lake also being developed in the area, vermin culture, and a future retirement village.

Japan, with its increasing old age rate, finds the Philippines a good retirement destination because of its caregivers, he added.

Bais said the landowners in Alangilan are willing to invest their money in developing their areas into a tourist destination because they see that there is a market.

The eco-tour Saturday included a trip to the Buro-buro of Jose Henares, who is into vermin culture, the proposed man-made lake of the Bantug family, Dodoy’s Ecological resort, and the private resort of the Bonnin family, that was a former quarry site which they had rehabilitated.

Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson said they would like to show that Alangilan has the potential to become a tourist destination.

“For day tours, we could include Alangilan in the itinerary and people will find it at par with any tourism destination,” he said adding that it just needs a little improvement especially on the roads.

Sayson said Alangilan is located in the boundary of Murcia and Talisay and just above it is Campuestuhan where there are cable cars. The barangay is part of the watershed area, he said.

The city has converted a 10-hectare area in Alangilan into a tree park and they hope to reforest the area considering that this is the watershed of Bacolod, he added.

Alangilan Brgy. Captain Degie Tanista Sr. said Alangilan has the potential to become a tourist destination but they do not have the funds to develop it.

He said they will create a tourism council that will promote the barangay for eco-tourism.

Sayson said that, to develop Alangilan into a tourist destination, they need to prepare the program of works to be submitted to the concerned government agencies for funding sources since the city does not have enough resources.

“We may not have beautiful beaches but we have a mountain barangay which we can convert into one of the tourism destination of Bacolod City,” he said.

Michael Lawrence Bantug, whose family owns the polo club, said they are developing a portion of their property, which used to be planted with sugarcane, into a man-made lake.

He said they also have plans to put up a football field and a mountain resort nearby that will have facilities like swimming pools, a campsite, picnic area and a mini zoo.

Juan Jose Bonnin said he is also putting up a resort on their property while Allan Joseph Arceo will also put up a retirement village in his area.

Barangay Kagawad Edgardo Paura, who owns Dodoy’s Ecological resort, said they started operating two months ago and they have two swimming pools, one a kiddie pool, constructed in an area of about 2.331 square meters.

Jose Henares of the Buro-Buro Spring Corporation, who produces high value vegetables and organic or vermi fertilizer, said their place was once a flower farm. But after being informed by his wife that the province had a high incidence of cancer cases in 1998 due to the presence of nitrate in the chemical fertilizer used in sugarcane, he said, they learned how to produce vermin fertilizer with the help of worms.

Henares said they now produce 10 tons of vermi fertilizer a month.*CGS

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Negros First CyberCenter

(photos courtesy by SUV111 of TheHappyTrip.com)

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CENTRAL CITYWALK




Department Store expansion


Driveway and entrance facing Go Hotel




To the left is the site of ANP Showroom and next to it is Robinsons Savings Bank, this is the hallway towards the main mall.

pics by @Linguine

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CENTRAL CITYWALK


concourse from the main mall


shops


fountain area with Sanparq2 peeping in the backgound


facing Go Hotel


more shops


and more shops


and more shops

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pics by @Buklod-Buglas

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