Buenos Aires Mountain Resort

From Bacolod City, take the Road Star Bus at the Bacolod South Terminal to Brgy. Ma-ao, Bago City. From Ma-ao Public Market, take the tricycle to Buenos Aires Mountain Resort.
Most of Negros Island’s beauty remains hidden from the rest of the country. Bago City in the Province of Negros Occidental on the Western side of the Island is probably one of those places that when God gifted the mortals with natural treasures, received a lot.One of the government run resorts is the Buenos Aires Mountain Resort which recently reopened after it has undergone renovation for almost a year.Buenos Aires Mountain Resort has several accommodation and pool choices for visitors.In Bago City where you’ll see a lot of rice fields side by side with sugarcane plantations. Bago City is considered the rice granary of Negros Occidental.
The landscape of Buenos Aires was different, more trees and cottages were still surrounding the main pool.Today the resort is one of the tourist destinations in Negros.The resort have the hotel rooms,cottages and of course the most famous, the swimming pools to offer its guests.Its more fun in Buenos Aires Mountain Resort!

Babaylan Festival

Bago City is a second class municipality in the province of Negros Occidental. The city is situated 21 kilometers south of the provincial capital, Bacolod City. Bago City is also known as the “Home of historical and natural treasures”.Bago is an Agri Industrial City. 

Babaylan Festival is an annual celebration held every 19th day of February during the Charter Anniversary of the City of Bago, Negros Occidental. It is a representation of the rituals performed by the Babaylans or high priestesses, like rituals of marriage, baptism, healing, and harvest.

The festival display an exotic character of the Babaylans who were very common in the Visayan provinces before the Spanish colonizers came. Among the figures in the history of Negros Island, the Babaylan Festival is the most colorful and enduring up to now. Dancing, singing, and drumming to please the spirits are the standard way of celebration, and the people are adorned in intricate and beautiful costumes.

Beauty pageants and ritual dances are the highlight of the occasion. The dancers wear different styles of Babaylan outfits as well as very colorful and artistic accessories. Some of them also put paint on their hair and body with a variety of designs illustrated on their skins.