Bacolod Tours
BACOLOD CITY TOURISM OFFICE
New Government Center
Tel No. (034) 434-6751 / 708-3066

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     Tour Options outside Bacolod
    Whole day tour includes an itinerary to either Silay City and her antillan homes, museums and sugar-based delicacies; to the Hawaiian Philippine Sugar Central to observe how sugar is made or up to Victorias City for the sugar refinery. Southern Option is Bago City for the Japanese OISCA silkworm farm and silk factory; or to ECJ Farms in the municipality of Pontervedra. (By appointment).

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     Business/Industrial and Educational Tour
     Tours to various business, small and medium scale industries, hotels and restaurants, bottling companies and subdivisions maybe arranged for specific students or business groups.

  • Call Centers(11) and Medical Tradition  College

  • Bottling companies, brewery, distillery and water refilling stations

  • Candle making, ceramics factory, children’s garments, shell crafts
    Food processing and food delicacy-making shops such as piaya factory, electrical and engineering firms

  • First Class hotels, Restaurants and pensions

  • Schools, colleges and universities offering courses of interest to the visitors or groups

*Requests and appointments are subject to company’s confirmation

 

 

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     Agricultural and Gamefowl Breeding Farm Tour
     A special-interest tour that will take a visitor to the following:
  • Agriculture Departments of two universities offering a course in
  • Organic Farms, Cutflower & Orchid Gardens such as Orchigio, Rene Dofitas’ Bloomington, Maribel Torre’s Garden.
  • Gamefowl/fighting cock farms
  • Piggeries and poultry Farms and Feed Mills
  • Silkworm Farm and Silk Production
  • Fish Drying in Barangay Banago
  • Sugar cane farms, rice lands and fish farms outside the city
  • The Visayas Clonal Nursery, Provincial Plant Nursery and Vermicomposing farm

*Requests and appointments are subject to confirmation

 

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     Religious/Cultural Pilgrimage
    
As the bastion of Catholicism in Negros Occidental, Bacolod City has the 1876 San Sebastian Cathedral and the later Catholic churches of modern architecture with aesthetically design interiors that are both a spiritual oasis and a visual feast. For Catholic pilgrims, a tour to these churches is an experience in finding the true meaning of the Holy Rosary and in deepening their reflection on the Paschal mystery of the Lord Jesus Christ.

For non-Catholics, the tour is a historical, cultural and artistic trip that will enhance their understanding of human faith and religiosity. Pilgrimage is ideal in October, as the Holy Rosary Month and during the Lenten Season to pray the 14 stations or the Way of the Cross. In moving from one church to another, there will be guide for the cultural and historical landmarks of the city.

Churches included in the tour: San Sebastian Cathedral, Sacred Heart/Lupit Church, San Antonio Abad Parish, Queen of Peace, San Nicolas de Tolentino, Barangay Sang Virgen of Santa Clara Chapel, Our Lady of Candles, Church of the Holy Cross, Immaculate Concepcion Church and the Ezequiel Moreno Shrine.

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     LGU Best Practices and Excellence in Governance Tour
     Bacolod City is proud to share with the other local government units certain best practices and excellence in governance that were regional and national award winners such as Most Business-Friendly City; Nest Financially-Managed City; Top ranking Peace and Order Council; Most Child-friendly Anvil Awardee for the MassKara festival and Insumix Feeding and many others. The tour is a combination of an official visit and observation workshop; thus activities include:
  • Courtesy call on the mayor
  • Interaction with the local officials.
  • Project site visits-child friendly barangays, solid waste management.
  • Insumix Feeding Program (an Anvil Awardee and Regional Excellence in Governance Finalist)
  • Program on Persons with Disability-A Gawad Apolinario Mabini Awardee
  • One-stop shop business permit
  • Processing: Employees Housing Program; Best Peace and Order Council; Most Business-Friendly City Business, Agricultural, Religious, Cultural Tours to be arranged according to the preferences of the group.

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     BACOLOD- Gateway to Adventure Negros
     Bacolod as the capital city of the Province of Negros Occidental is also the gateway to ex eco-tourism tours and adventures in the northern and southern parts of the province. Explore, experience and enjoy the following:
  • Mt. Kanlaon Volcano climbing, hiking or trailing ( in coordination with the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office and LGU concerned)
  • SCUBA/ deep sea diving, snorkeling, jet skiing, banana boating or simply lazing in the white sand beaches north and south of the province.
  • Island hopping and island resort holiday in the northern part (80 kms. away)
  • SPELUNKING or cave exploration in the caves of the Municipality of Candoni (137 kms. South) and the City of Escalante (102 kms. north)
  • Mountain Resort hopping at Mambucal Resort 37 kms southeast of Bacolod and Buenos Aires Mountain Resort in Bago City, 21 kms. south.

For Information call:
BACOLOD CITY TOURISM OFFICE
Tel No. (034) 434-6751 / 708-3066; E-mail: ikanaan@bacolodcity.gov.ph