Welcome to Bacolod City, the City of Smiles! From Dumaguete, we travelled five hours via land trip heading for Bacolod, an overnight side trip from the Oriental Negros. We left Dumaguete at exactly 6am and settled at one of the city's pension house just before noon. After settling our things, we took our lunch in one of the restaurants offering the famous Bacolod chicken inasal, so delicious and very affordable. We then headed to our place of destination, that is the Mambukal Resort, a mountain resort famous for its 7 waterfalls. The place is a one-hour drive from the city center. The resort offers lots of activities, they have several swimming pools of different variety - hot spring, children's, cold pool - they also have the mud pack activity. Adding to the attraction of the resort
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