The diverse, ruggedly beautiful island of Negros is a place we’d unhesitatingly recommend to any traveller. Wedged between Panay and Cebu, it’s treated by too many as a mere stepping stone. Surprisingly few stop to refuel in the charming (yes, you heard right) campus town of Dumaguete, or to enjoy its surrounding dive resorts. Word is only now spreading about the stunning beach havens around Sipalay, on the remote southwest coast. And very few foreigners make it as far as the forested hill stations of Mt Kanlaon, or the ‘living museums’ of Silay. Which is all rather strange because, wherever you look, you’ll find plenty on Negros to make you want to linger.
For more than a century, Negros was famed as the ‘sugar bowl’ of the Philippines. From the 1850s, the majority of arable land was turned over to sugarcane plantations. In both the cities and the smaller towns, many historic buildings still stand testament to the fortunes made by the sugar barons. The ‘Sugarlandia’ phenomenon is still very evident in the north of the country, where convoys of trucks loaded with cane rumble endlessly down the highway, through a sea of silver-green cane fields.
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