...Or that's how the people at the Canada Hotel described the quality of the cheap room we stayed in for two nights. And they were right, they just failed to mention that the view was of the putrid slums of Iloilo. Well, the slums were not that bad, not Cebu bad, but disgusting nonetheless. It is a very smelly town though, in that it seems to smell of sewers everywhere. Very notably in the lobby of the Canada Hotel, it really hits you when you walk in there. It seemed nice to stay at the Canada Hotel, which is apparently owned by a Canadian, but it just seemed like a sleezy sex hotel. There were a number of strip joints across the street, very convenient. The room also had a bug problem in the form of ants and cockroachs... I was not sad to leave that place.
Here I am standing near the port in Iloilo just before leaving for Bocolod. A town I passed through briefly about a week early but am now returning to to see some more of Negros Island, possibly a Volcano!
As gross and Iloilo is I will be returning there in about a week to experience the Dinangyang festival (I may have spelled that word wrong by the way), which is apparently a huge mardi gras-esq festival that lasts for three days. People come from all over the Philippines to see it. There is already a lot of practicing going on, which is really cool to see and hear. the drums below are incredibly loud when played in unison, it is quite something to hear. Hopefully we will be able to participate in the festival as well, which involves painting yourself black and wearing a big headress.. we will see.
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