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Negros Occidental is famous for...
Beaches
Negros Occidental is also endowed with popular beaches and island destinations located up north and down south of the province.
Kabataang Silay Performing Arts and Rondalla Ensemble
These Young Cultural Ambassadors of Silay bring out the best of Philippine Visayan and rural folk dances and music.
Ancestral Houses
Reflect the grandiouse and lavish lifestyle of the Negrense elite during the turn of the century.
Sugar Mills and Plantation
The Sugar Industry itself - the mono-crop economy that made Negros the “Sugar Bowl” of the Philippines.
Mambukal Resort
Located 31 km. east of Bacolod City. This resort is surrounded by therapeutic sulfur springs, seven waterfalls, mountain streams, lush valleys, and hiking trails leading to Mt. Kanlaon.
Golf Facilities
The province has three world-class golf courses, Negros Occidental Golf and Country Club, Bacolod Golf and Country Club, and VICMICO Golf and Country Club, and has produced some of the country’s best swingers.
Festivals
Negros Occidental is known to be the most numbered in festivals depicting certain cultures in each of its 19 towns and 13 cities.
Cuisine
The food in Negros is legendary. Its mouth-watering dishes rank among the best the island has to offer. It is particularly popular for sugar-based food items, delicacies, and chicken “inasal. “
Iron Dinosaurs (Steam Locomotives).
Known among locomotive enthusiasts as the “Steam Paradise of the Philippines.” The Central Azucarera de La Carlota and Hawaiian Philippines Co. sugar centrals maintain these machines in good working condition. Each milling season, one may occasionally encounter one of these “dragons” creeping along the canefields like a mechanical caterpillar dragging along a host of canefield cars.
Panaad Park and Stadium
The stadium brings together the 13 cities and 19 municipalities in a showcase of history, arts and culture, tourism, trade, commerce and industry, beauty and talent as well as games and sports during the Pannad sa Negros Festival.
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