Marvelous Mabinay
My Negros Oriental Tour: Mabinay Town Center Alright, still with Bais as a base, I unrelentingly headed off to Mabinay despite the on-and-off showers. But first, lets pronounce this word correctly. Mabinay is pronounced as "muh-be-nigh". The 'ma' sounds like the way you would say it in 'mother', not as in 'many'. Its nearer but not quite as in 'marine' or 'matter'. So just stick with ‘mother’, okay? The 'bi' is pronounced like the English word 'be' while the 'ay' in 'nay' sounds like the letter 'I'. If you haven’t quite got it, any Philippine language does not have the long 'a' as in cake, make or bake. Okay? Ah the speed, accent or stress in pronouncing Mabinay is like how you would say marina or martini. So, let’s go! Taking a Ceres from Bais, I knew I was going up the mountains but OMG the views were breathtaking. This is the 3rd of 4 non-coastal localities in the province I was going t