Mambukal

These are the pictures I took during our trip to Mambukal Resort last Octobe

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r 16, 2009. It's a forty-five minute drive from Bacolod City.

Trip to the South

My friends and I planned the Palawan trip for months now, we filed leaves in the office just so we can all join. The day of the trip came, that was last October 15, Thursday. It's really sad that one of our friends, Bels, did not make it to join us to attend to a personal matter. Oh well, it's life. We were already in the airport like 12 in the afternoon because the flight was like 3 or something. And to our surprise, ZestAir cancelled the flight to Puerto Princesa due to an aircraft situation. That was really a hussle to all the people going there. We also learned that there are some people who was supposed to have a flight the other day and it was cancelled because of the weather condition. Oh well, that really sucks... My friends and I wouldn't want to go home as loser because they already knew that trip. Just so we can go out of Manila, we requested the ZestAir people to transfer us to another flight that will never be cancelled and without us being charged again which they did. They told us that trip to Bacolod will not be cancelled. And so, we all agreed. At the smoking area, we met one nice lady, named Gene and her trip is also to Bacolod. Her flight is supposedly at 1pm, it was delayed to 330, delayed, 630pm delayed and finally at 830, we were able to board the plane with her. We knew nothing about Bacolod. But that's the fun of it, right? To go to a place you are really not sure of. Good thing that there is the Masskara Festival. We don't really care then even if most of our outfits are for the beach. Gene's nice enough to have her best friend Joms book us at an available inn that time, Check Inn. At last, we landed to the New Silay Bacolod Airport. We took a shuttle to the inn, 100 bucks per head. The inn's in down town. Since we were so hungry, we just brought our things to the room and had a very lunch dinner at the Wave lounge just across the street. We just had sandwiches with Cali, pale and sprite, a pitcher of margarita. Nice place to chill. There's an acoustic couple playing. My friends, Shari, Cherl and Anna would not let the day pass without me jamming and so I did. I had four songs. Alone, Stay, Crazy for you and another song which I can't remember anymore. The next day, we went the SM Bacolod to have a late breakfast at Bobs (our official diner during our stay), bought things for Mambukal Resort and meet up with Gene. Our trip to Mambukal resort's really unforgettable and i must say one of the best. Before seeing the falls, we had a few drinks (gsm blue mixed with gatorade and sprite). At past three or four pm. We started going up. Boy, it's really, really hard because it's an uphill climb, unlike what Shari and I experienced going to Kabigan falls. I actually fainted up there but still managed to reach the 6 falls. We were not able to see the 6 other falls because it's almost dark when we got there. We are supposed to use the shortcut going down, but the guide said that we will use the way we went up. Huwaaahhh.... We are in a total darkness that time. Good thing that we had the tour guide, Joms and Marx (Jene's friends) to help us there.It's almost 7pm when we reached the foot. And mind you guys, it's really tiring and dehydrating. It's like a forty-five minute drive going back to the city. When we got to the inn, we just took a bath and then meet up with Jene and friends to have a very late dinner. We went to Chicken Deli at Lacson Street. Since it's a week-long festivity for the Ilonggos, the street's really full of people. That's what i noticed with the Ilonggos. They spend time and really prepare for that happening.... After dinner, we went to find another place to stay because we are only booked to stay for two days at the check inn hotel and unfortunately we are not able to find any. We just went to the Ice bar to meet up Jene and friends... Of all places, i saw an old friend from college, Perry EscaÑo with Richard Quan. Perry introduced me to Richard. I got starstruck that I forgot to let them meet the girls I'm with. We had Tanduay Ice as our drink and I must say it's good. We stayed there til past 2am then we went back to the hotel to get our things and deliver it to the Bacolod Pavillion hotel where Jene stays then off we go to CeresTerminal for our trip to Punta Bulata White Beach Resort which is a four hours ordinary bus trip from the city. We were not able to make it to the 3am trip so we waited til 4am and then our trip began. It's really a long hour drive, imagine if we took a cab going there, how much will they charge us. Good thing we took the bus for like a hundred and thirty five bucks i believe. Punta Bulata is 156kms south from Bacolod.Imagine how much we have to go through, just to get that tan we wanted. (Our mindset is Palawan, remember?) Finally, the bus driver, "Koya" dropped us at the main road where we can take another ride going to the beach. And to our surprise, we saw nothing but a habal habal or a single motorcycle, and yes, we took a 4.5 km ride going to the beach. It's really a rough road that the 100 bucks they are asking seemed to be a fair price. When we reached the area, it feels like heaven. What's more, we're the only people there apart from the workers there. Sweet.... We did whatever we wanted. Sounds. Drinks. Party. Jene and I went to the right side of the beach to pick some rocks and shells, and there we got the tan we hoped for. It actually rained but good thing it only lasted for a few minutes but even if it did, it didn't stop us from staying in the sea. That time, I thought about not going home anymore but like any story, it has to end, right? We took another habal-habal trip back to the main road with the same drivers. I gave my driver an extra because the road's really slippery yet he managed to be good in it. When we got to the main road, we missed the bus and so we waited almost half an hour to get another one. We had like another 4 hours drive to Ceres Terminal and off we go through a cab going to the Bacolod Pavillion hotel where we stayed. Glad that Joms found a room for us in the same hotel where they are. We had a few drinks, enough to make us sleep. Well, i was the last one to sleep. We woke up the next morning with the following agenda: Fruitstand (lanzones and mangga), Napoleones, The Ruins, Lunch, Shopping and off we go to the airport. It's really sad that four days of rest already ended. But I'm really glad that Palawan trip's cancelled, if not, we could have not met Jene and friends and experience the beauty of Negros Occidental.

Madamo gid nga salamat.