Exploring Mabinay Negros Oriental - Kayaking at Mabinay Spring

Travel is one of the best thing to enjoy life, where you can visit different places you love, enjoy life with your favorite destinations and feel the freedom away from stress and enjoy your life to the fullest. Mabinay is the last municipality in Negros Oriental and boundary of Negros Oriental and Occidental. Its a large area characterized with different stunning destination and spots.  One of their pride is the "Mabinay Spring", that produces clean water to municipality  it is also a place where you can find the true meaning of Relaxation. You can have the fun kayaking, swimming and feel the cold fresh water that covers your body and soul.

Our author, website owner ( bobie cayao ) shares his travel adventure from this beautiful place. 

Mabinay Spring is located few distance away from the poblacion, it took 5 to 10 minutes riding on a tricycle or they called it pedecab for only 8 pesos fare. This place is surrounded with different trees and these are protected by the municipality from logging.

The entrance way is really amazing, you can feel the different temperature, its cold and you can settle down your mind with different sounds of birds and tiny voices of insects. You  have to pay entrance fee for only 10 pesos for adults and 5 pesos for kids and enjoy all your day.

You can tour around and find place where you can settle down all your things, yo can ask people who are working in their respected areas or just drop by at their small office located near the entrance gate. People are friendly and they will entertain you and help you what you want to do and what you need - 

Carabao Sundial - Victorias City Tourist Spot

What time is it?

If ever you forget to wear your wristwatch but so happened to be at St. Joseph the Worker Parish, Do not worry at all. Beside the famous church painted with the ANGRY CHRIST stand a one of a kind clock. It is called the CARABAO SUNDIAL.
At first glance you might not know what this static figure is all about.
Why is it designed like this?
What is the significant purpose why this structure was built?

Let me explain further.

This spectacular CARABAO SUNDIAL was built last December, 1975 by Shalom IV ’76, a group of senior students from Don Bosco Techinical Institute – Victorias, with the assistance of the management of Victorias Millling Company, Inc (VMC).

source: worldfactsnews

The Carabao stands for a hardworking community and the ever strong Philippine Labor; the Sugar Cane symbolizes the sugar, the product which has made VMC known throughout the world and the principal source of income of the people in Negros; and the Young Man represents the youth who will lead our country tomorrow.

This impressive artwork is not only meaningful but also very useful for everyone who passes by because it gives a time information by the shadow reflected by the sun to its horn.

I have taken this photo at exactly 1:17 PM Philippine time and it shows that the shadow cast is in-between the numbers 1 and 2 but more closer to 1 is a good mark that the CARABAO SUNDIAL is showing a relatively correct time of the day.

It is so creative. Isn’t it?