Vallehermoso, A Beautiful Valley
My Negros Oriental Tour: Municipality of Vallerhermoso That’s what it means... ‘valle hermoso’ is Spanish for ‘a beautiful valley’! Uhuh, I still remember my Spanish 20!!! Alright, done with Canlaon City, I took a bus going Dumaguete and told the conductor I would get off at the town center of Vallehermoso. And as we approached low land, there it was, the reason why this town has been called a ‘Valle Hermoso’. It really is a beautiful expanse of sugar cane fields and other crops. It is (still) a farming community sandwiched by three cities and the sea. I learned my trip from Canlaon was just about 30kms to this town while my next trip later would be another 30 kms to another city (Guihulngan) and just to the north of Vallehermoso is my chosen base for this leg of the tour - San Carlos City. You’d probably expect (as I did) that the town of Vallehermoso (yup, the official name has the two words linked as one) is a bustling suburb it being at the confluence of 3 cities, right? Nah, and f...