Philippine Travel Notes

Last leg of my "Northern Negros tour"! I was running out of time, but not worried. In fact, I liked some unexpected sights and situations encountered. Well, I always say, there'll always be something worth noting to be added to my knowledge about this country, or just about life in general! Oh ha, profound! So, after the Cadiz Church, my 'special trip' tricycle brought me to the Ceres Bus Terminal, and what a "lucky strike", I caught the last 'ordinary bus' going south, that passes by the town center of Manapla! Is that an issue? Not really. The conductor himself told me, if I can't catch a bus from inside Manapla, I could take a tricycle ride to the "Welcome Rotunda" near Northland Resort, which is about 3kms out. Less convenient but doable. He added I could also ride the VHires - not a good option for sightseeing! Somewhere outside Cadiz, in a sugarcane field, I saw an elevated ground with trees and a big house. The bus was...

This would have been my usual morning walk. As I said in my other stories, when I have the time, and allowed to, I do morning walks at places I visit, which I never do when I'm home, and I don't know why! Those walks are mostly aimless - without any itinerary nor purpose on what to see or do. They're what I call 'on a come-what-may basis'! But today had a bit of an exception: to watch out for the old houses! To consciously watchout for big old houses obviously stemmed from the fascinating experience I had in yesterday's afternoon walk . Yet still, I had no specific walking itinerary, since there is just none (yet)! I searched online last night, I asked around, I even called up some reliable sources.., no one could give me a definite walking route around downtown Silay, such that I could pass-by all those big old houses in an orderly fashion without going around in circles. I was not even specific to "just heritage houses"! Let's hope someon...