Cagayan de Oro City

After a long search for donations and other sponsors for the operation of little Zayrish Nanay, 3, born without a gullet; finally today Zayrish and her Mama left from Cagayan de Oro City for Manila. Here Zayrish will have an operation, done by Dr. Reganion of the National Children’s Hospital in Quezon City. The family and [...]

We been posting about formerly mayor Jaraula’s pet project, the “Golden Mile”. After one year I have been back to look at the place again. I went to the riverside and wanted to take some pictures of the construction site but security didn’t let me in even as a visitor. So I had to do with [...]

While taking some pictures of the construction of the new city hall building I came accross a group of chess players near the entrance to the old city hall bulding. It turned out that a few adults and parents teach the next generation of chess players here. According to a woman who seemed to be one [...]

All graphics can be clicked to a size of 1200×900 px. We walk our dogs mostly on weekends for some distances and sometimes these walks are hikes. Like this one on a cloudy day. It took as more then four hours to reach the road from Cugman to Malasag close to the PHILVOLCS monitoring station.  Access [...]

Close to the cogon market, in different side streets, one can see the crowded places where “ukay-ukay”, a Filipino phrase for used clothes, bed and table wares, are sold in a warehouse atmosphere. But it’s also sold in other places and markets around the city. My lady finds here always something she can use. Often enough [...]

Today I have been picture hunting in the cogon area and found these two young ladies relaxing on a sikad on a busy streetcorner. They have been extreme friendly and I enjoyed a little chat with these two lovely young ladies. The city of golden friendship can be proud of their citizens and me, I love [...]

A while ago, a young student, Bryan Fabe, of Cagayan de Oro City, with some friends, had the idea of bringing their highbreed canines for some socialicing to the weekly night cafe in Divisoria. They meet fridays and saturdays at this portion at Pabayo St. near the Park Cafe. Here we have this young guy talking [...]

On Dec. 5 and 6 there was on the premises of SM the “1st Golden Friendship Motor Show” and I have missed it. It was organised by the Golden Vintage Car Club of Cagayan de Oro, Inc. I just stumbled on it by accident when I was walking my Hovawart dog ‘James’ there. They admired the [...]

Since we are temporarily living a few weeks in Opol, Misamis Oriental, about 10 kms to the west of Cagayan de Oro City, I will look for some small stories about the place. When walking one morning my dog at the beach a jogger friend of mine told me about a man at the beach who [...]

“Kagay-an Festival”- Cagayan de Oro City’s main fiesta attraction in honor to patron Saint Augustine. Recently there are new and exciting events for tourists and residents at this years Kagay-an Festival 2009. We watched the crowd-drawing colorful activity of “Kagay-an Dance Festival”, a street dancing competition showcasing Northern Mindanao indigenous people’s dances on August 24. Photos by [...]