Best Posts in Thread: Negros road trip Jan 2020

Road is nice and curvy. Great for motorcycles!
You can also take the ferry boat to sipaway island when you get to san carlos. The beaches on that island are quite nice.

 

2-3 months ago I was on a bike ride on my Yamaha 155 cc, I will upload my route on a map. East Coast Dumaguete to San Carlos is a pleasure to ride, many small towns where you can stop, several 7/11 stores, my favorite for coffee, cold drinks, sandwich, etc., have had some bad experiences with karenderia, not funny to sit on the side of the road with trousers down and people pass by lol. San Carlos to Bacolod over Don Salvador Benedicto is really beautiful in the mountains and fun to ride even on a small bike. On another bike ride, I was at Mt Canlaon, you can't ride to the top but I use 2 days' drive around there and enjoy the peace, beautiful nature and no or only a few foreigners there, depends on what time of year it is. My goal with my last ride was to see the northern part of Negros never been there before. It's a sugarcane area and not that much exciting Imho, but there are things to see there, an Echo Park and a museum north of Dakbyan Sagay. I took the ferry from San Carlos to Toledo on Cebu Island and down to Santander (Bato Port) back to Negros. Ferries are dirt cheap San Carlos-Toledo was 400+ pesos and Santander to Negros 180 pesos for bike and 1 person, I was alone on the last tour. If you go up West Coast of Negros a must visit place is Sugar Beach, you take a banka from Siapalay around 20 min to Sugar Beach, no roads go there, you can only reach Sugar Beach by boat if I remember right it's only around 200 pesos for the boat. You can park your bike 100 m from the Beach in Sipalay it cost 100 pesos a night then you sure it's still there when you come back, just ask people there, or in tourist information, they have a small office on the beach there. There are around 12 resorts there all price range and you can rent a kayak or a small sailboat, very small, just for fun close to the shore. If you go Canlaon you need to be prepared there are only 3 hotels/pension houses in town if you want more comfort you must find a resort outside Canlaon but that should not be a problem. I stayed at the Tourist Inn in Canlaon they have the basic, okay bed, aircon, shower and tv. Then about the choice of bike, I will say you can easily go Negros around even on a 100 cc but for sure it's more fun on a bigger bike and also if you like go off road, you need to consider what bike you choice but I'm sure you know that. I wish you a good ride, enjoy. Have problem upload my route but 1. day I go Dumaguete-Bacolod and next day from Bacolod-San Carlos on the northern part of Negros, day 3 Toledo-Santander on Cebu Island

 

I’ve done Santander up to Tangil, cross to Guigulngan and return. There are some nice falls north of Santander and the road on Cebu’s west coast is good swoopy two-lane without too much traffic.
Also done Duma to Bagawines on the coast road (other direction). North of Bais is twistier and less traffic. Just not too much to eat. The Lalimar is probably the nicest place up there to eat or stay. From Bagawines we did the mountain road to Tagbino and then north to the Eco Highway and DSB. There’s a few falls around there worth a trek on the road back to Bacolod. We went north instead, again on the Eco Highway which is a great fast road that starts twisty and then straightens out while climbing out past Mt. Canlaon. At Calatrava we took the AE Marianon extension to Bato and onto Sagay City, which is another nice road, a bit off the beaten track. Two lane concrete. Stayed overnight in Cadiz City (utterly unmemorable). Next day we visited Langkawon Island from Cadiz Viejo and immediately regretted not overnighting there.
Coast road from there to Bacolod was good but not fantastic... mostly wide and fast but heavy traffic and rather ugly towns. Views to the mountains should have been nice but weather was bad. Home in a hurry via KK, Mabinay and Bais, which is a fun road but sadly also in heavy rain.

Serow 250, 2-up

 

Drive up the coast to san carlos, then take the mountain roads to don salvador. Thank me later