Cagayan De Oro

Date: August 8-30, 2009
Cagayan de Oro City is known as the "City of Golden Friendship" and that distinction is one of the reasons why Cagayan de Oro is frequented by tourists both local and foreign. Cagayan de Oro, also known as CDO, is undoubtedly the fastest booming city in Mindanao today due to its strategic location and peace and order stability.
CDO got the monicker "Gateway to Northern Mindanao" due to its location wherein it humbles its state of the art sea port and a domestic airpot. All products and people alike travelling from Bukidnon and other provinces in Northern Mindanao are going to use these facilities of Cagayan de Oro when going to Manila, Cebu and other places in the Philippines.

GOLDEN FRIENDSHIP PARK

CATANICO FALLS - located about 10 kilometers away from the city. The falls drop into a swimming pool where bathers could dive from where the water descends; concealed by huge boulders and covered with fern and moss.

SEMINARY HILL - Located in the southeastern portion of the city is the San Jose Seminary, the training center for aspiring priest; also the site of the Carmelite Nunnery where it houses the Miraculous Infant Jesus.

MALASAG NATURE TRAIL and ECO – TOURISM VILLAGE

GLEMA STONEWARE – located at Barangay Bulua; handcrafted home and office decors, household wares and giftables are available.

PALALAN WATERFALL – situated some 7.0 kilometers from sitio Palalan, brgy. of Tablon. It is surrounded by boulders and stones dubbed by the city as Oro stone similar in characteristics with the Mangima Stone. It has 3 steps of falls at approximately 50 meters apart with the upper portion, ( the source ) , as the biggest of the three.

MIGTUGSOK FALLS

MONIGUE CAVE – located at Barangay Mambuaya this city; the cave entrance is flowing water from underground stream. The cave has a small opening that seems too narrow to be passable, it has a six (6) inches airspace between ceiling and water that you have to submerge yourselves one by one, equipped with a helmet and a waterproof cap lamp. The cave contains a beautiful sparkling formations which is called the CALCIUM CARBONATE (CaCO3) or CALCITES. These stalactites and stalagmites, white and brown, are sign of oxidized materials that take 50-60 years to form an inch. The cave is definitely spellbinding. There were formations of flowstones, gurpool-resembling rice terraces, transparent crystals and picturesque speleothems, such as cathedral drapes and icons. Everything was simply beautiful and awesome.

MACAHAMBUS HILL CAVE AND GORGE

HULUGA CAVE – On the south end of the city, about eight kilometers south is Huluga Cave. Composed of two main caverns, it is situated on the eastern side of Cagayan River, along the brow of a vertical limestone cliff. The skeletal fragment from these caves were found to belong to a child and a woman who inhabited Cagayan 1,600 years B.C. This was based on the acid racemization done by Scripps Institute in La Jolla, California.

FESTIVAL: KAGAY-AN FESTIVAL

SAKAY-SAKAY LAMBAGO

WHITE WATER RAFTING