Good day, Hiveans! How was your day? Hope you’re fine while reading my blog. Today is my first day trying to balance my work and my interests. I needed to have the correct time management so as not to sacrifice the latter. The adjustment is real. Anyway, for today’s blog, I want to share my experience of my travel to Dumaguete.
Dumaguete Boulevard
Dumaguete City is the city of Negros Oriental close to the southern part of Cebu. I’ve been to Dumaguete City when I was fourteen years old. It was when my father’s cousin from her mother’s side invited her relatives from Cebu to travel to Dumaguete City to celebrate her birthday. It was a free trip. My aunt sponsored all the expenses of the trip. Since it was free, only my father decided to accept the invitation and not to burden her cousin with the cost he didn’t bring another family member.
According to my father, when he arrived in Dumaguete City, my aunt asked my father why he didn’t bring another family member. My father shared how I cried a lot because I wanted to join the trip too. My aunt felt pity as she heard the story, so, she let me travel to Dumaguete City with her mother and my cousin. We traveled on a land trip, we traveled from our town, Tabogon to Santander. The traveling time was 14 hours.
As we arrived at Santander, I vomited since at that time, I was not used to long travel. When I was young, I easily felt nausea from the smell of the bus. Nevertheless, I was happy that time. Despite my experience, I was never discouraged but motivated to travel again. I spent the place for 1 week with free accommodation and food. It was a nice experience for a teen like me and traveling to Dumaguete City was my first island trip. According to the old folks, the child needs to travel to some island to eliminate the nausea when the child travels. I think it's true for me. When we went back to our town, I never vomited again.
December 20, 2024, It took me 14 years to travel back to Dumaguete City. This time, it’s not free. I’m the one paying my travel expenses. One of my colleagues wanted to visit Dumaguete City because her child wanted to get a Philippine passport there. Same as before, we traveled on a land trip together. We used a 4-wheel vehicle as our transportation. We contacted our relatives in the area and were able to experience again the free accommodation and food.
Dumaguete's Plaza
I’m happier as I go back to Dumaguete City. Never would I think that I could travel back to its place. I admit. It was sweeter the second time around.
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Author: Maureen S. O.
Photos owned by my husband: Paul Vincent M. O
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True. The municipality is rich ma'am. 😁
Kinda sad that if you will be travelling di na libre anu? HAHAH I miss the old days wherein I can just make gala and for free nako ngayon todo gastos na.
Ito ang masarap, mini reunion na may pa free food and lodging pa each time na may visit sa province.
Hahaha, Tama. Masaya sa umpisa, stress sa huli. Ayos lang, naging masaya ka naman panandalian. 😅😅
Yes. Lalo nang afford talaga ng relatives mo.😊
Everything is happy until the bills hot added hahahaha
Yeah.. In summary, we need cash to become happy.😅
It sounds like the city brought back some good memories you had many years ago. Glad you were able to set foot into it again :)
Wow I've never been to Negros, but the place looks beautiful tho
Yeah. Negros is a nice place to visit. Full of natural resources. 😊