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Explore Sipalay City: A Tourist's Guide

Sipalay City offers tourists a free overnight stay arranged by the kind Mayor Hon. Oscar C. Montilla Jr. The tour guide will take the tourists to three destinations: first, a 20-minute boat ride to Sugar Beach, a long stretch of creamy sand with German, Swiss and Filipino-owned resorts; second, Tinagong Dagat, a hidden sea sprinkled with islands covered in lush vegetation near the Chocolate Hills; and third, Punta Ballo Beach, a fine white sandy beach over a kilometre long ideal for snorkeling and diving due to rich marine life. The tourists are encouraged to return during the Pasaway festival celebrating the city's charter anniversary with street dancing and costumes

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Explore Sipalay City: A Tourist's Guide

Sipalay City offers tourists a free overnight stay arranged by the kind Mayor Hon. Oscar C. Montilla Jr. The tour guide will take the tourists to three destinations: first, a 20-minute boat ride to Sugar Beach, a long stretch of creamy sand with German, Swiss and Filipino-owned resorts; second, Tinagong Dagat, a hidden sea sprinkled with islands covered in lush vegetation near the Chocolate Hills; and third, Punta Ballo Beach, a fine white sandy beach over a kilometre long ideal for snorkeling and diving due to rich marine life. The tourists are encouraged to return during the Pasaway festival celebrating the city's charter anniversary with street dancing and costumes

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Hello, dear tourists! Welcome to the jewel of the sugar island, Sipalay City!

By the way, I’m____- your


friendly tour guide. If you have anything to ask, please don’t hesitate to do so because it’s my
pleasure to be of service to you. Just be a responsible tourists so that we won’t have any problem
throughout the entire tour. Are we good ____. Awesome! Well then let’s get started!

We are here in the city hall of Sipalay City, being led by our very kind mayor Hon. Oscar C. Montilla Jr.
who has already made a reservation in one of the beautiful resorts in our place for your free overnight
stay. Are you thankful and excited? ___. I know you want to thank our mayor for his kindness but
unfortunately, he is out for a very important meeting. So, let me just tell you about the Sipalay City.

Sipalay got its name from the old native phrase “si palay” meaning “there is rice”. Chinese traders,
who were not able to pronounce the ‘R’ in the local word Paray are believed to helped disseminate
the name Sipalay as rice abundantly grows in the area and is freely traded. It is a third class city
divided into 17 barangays.

We have three destinations to visit today. As you can see in our itinerary, our first stop is the 20-
minute boat ride from the city proper—the sweet paradise called Sugar Beach! Located in Barangay
Nauhang along the heel of the boot-shaped island of Negros, this kilometre- long stretch of creamy
sand originally called Langub Beach was renamed by resort owners, upon the recommendation of
German travel guidebook writer Jens Peters. German, Swiss and Filipino-owned resorts in line this
sugary beach, which offers an excellent place for swimming and various water sports activities.

Our second stop is not far from the Sugar Beach. It is where the chocolate hills meet the sea- the

Tinagong Dagat—a hidden sea sprinkled with dozen islets covered with lush vegetation. The sea

bottom covered with patches of sea grasses beds, with shoreline lined by old- growth mangroves.

Tinagong Dagat, formerly called as the Isla Bonita, is located at Sitio Matlag.

Finally, our third stop is the Punta Ballo Beach! Located in close proximity to Tinagong Dagat, this fine
white sandy beach is more than a kilometre- long stretch. It’s the nearest jump off point towards the
sea ideal for snorkelling & diving due to the rich marine life.

By the way, you can come again every last week of March in time for the Pasaway festival also
marking the Charter Anniversary of the city! It features street dancing and merry making by
performers from seventeen barangays of the city attired in mardigras and exotic costumes in the
semblance of copper minerals.

So, I hope you enjoyed you stay here in new Boracay of Negros Occidental because here in Negros,
there isn’t just sugar but many more! See you next time!

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