City Museum of Cagayan de Oro

Our second day in Cagayan de Oro was the whitewater rafting. Whew we enjoyed it to the max, planning to go back and have the advance one. We returned to the city around 2:00pm, still have time to explore the city proper then we decided to visit the City Museum of Cagayan de Oro.

The building was built in the year 1922 as a water tank. Yes it’s a water tank. It is located near Gaston Park adjacent to the St. Augustine Church. The Antiquities, memorabilia of well-known families of Cagayan de Oro city and a gallery of Cagayan de Oro history can be found in this Museum. So we were excited to visit the City Museum of Cagayan de Oro City to know the roots of the Kagayanons, but when we arrived in there it was closed. We asked the people around if it is still open, they said we should ask the city government. LOL ok so we walked away and asked a policeman. He said we can go back on Monday. Museum usually closed on Mondays but we thought maybe in Cagayan de Oro it is open. 

The following Monday we went back there, it was still closed. We had no choice but to take pictures outside the Museum because in just few hours we would go back to Manila. We were wondering how the water tank turned into a museum? That’s for us to find out someday. 

Plaza Divisoria or The Golden Friendship Park in Cagayan de Oro City.

On our first night in Cagayan de Oro, my sister told us that we can try the night market in Divisoria. We were like Divisoria? We were thinking it would be like of the Divisoria in Manila. She replied its different, on weekends this area became a night market, where food stalls are being set up just like Banchetto in Ortigas. Too tired from the trip to Dahilayan Adventure Park in Bukidnon, but the mere thought of food trip made us excited.

  

The driver of the rela unloaded us in a long huge center island with statues of heroes. He said that is the Divisoria, it’s a park called Golden Friendship Park. I was looking for the stalls set up but we couldn’t find one. We asked for locals where the night market was, they said no night market anymore. Lol to our dismayed. No choice we had to look for another option but since we were already there, we opted to explore the place

The Plaza Divisoria is also called as Golden Friendship Park; actually it is a series of parkes dedicated to national and local heroes. It is located in the downtown area. This plaza serves as venue for different activities. It is surrounded by establishments like shopping centers and offices. Souvenir shops and fruit stands can be found in here too.

This park served as a fire break or divider that’s why it is called Divisoria, a Spanish term. It was built in 1901, because Cagayan de Oro City’s downtown at that time was constantly affected by fire.

Sto. Niño Cold Spring Resort - Catarman, Camiguin

Our last stop for our  day tour in Camiguin  was Sto. Niño Cold Spring Resort, it is located in Catarman, Camiguin. Camiguin is tagged as the second smallest province in the Philippines, the province born of fire and I want to add to that title as Spring Capital of the Philippines. It has several springs cold and hot. Some of these springs are developed for tourists with huge swimming pools, picnic huts and tables, souvenir shops, restaurants and the likes. The most popular among them are the Ardent Hot Springs Resort , Bura Soda Water Park and the Sto. Niño Cold Spring Resort.

Sto. Niño Cold Spring Resort has crystal clear water that fish can be seen clearly even just merely looking at the water. We were so tired no energy to swim so we just dipped our feet while sitting on the side of the swimming pool. Watching the fish swimming was so relaxing. It was inviting to swim with them lol but sad to say we had to go back to Caayan de Oro City. The swimming pool can be a huge fish spa because when we were motionless, the school of fish got near and was started to bite our dead skin. In Manila it’s expensive but in Sto. Niño Cold Spring Resort its part of the perks and freebies of the resort.

The Resort has two stone pools, one for the adults which has a measurement of 25 meters by 40 meters with a depth varies from ½ meter to 2 meters and the other one is a kiddie pool.

There were ladies offering food, they have package to choose from. I learned that they have organization of housewives offering home cooked food as the livelihood program of the locals. Since we had a sumptuous lunch in Bura Soda Water Park we didn’t order instead ordered fresh buko (young coconut) and rice puto (steamed rice cake) for our snack. Fresh Buko is 20.00 pesos and rice puto is 10.00 not bad for a snack.

End of the tour, it was worth of the time and effort to explore this tiny island but too many things to offer. Thank you Camiguin.

Entrance Fee:

P 20.00 day time

9 years and below is “free”