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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC |
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| Ms. Maria Carmela Ybañez Uy or Maricar Uy stopped working with Nazca Designs in August 2009. Any financial transaction of Maricar Uy is hers alone and does not represent Nazca Designs. |
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Hotels
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2008:
Several hotels, inns and lodging houses are available. First- class
Pryce Plaza Hotel sits atop Carmen Hill, overlooking the city and
Macajalar Bay. At least four other hotels offer amenities comparable
to those in Cebu and Manila. One beach hotel is in the city; the other
in the municipality of Opol.
Recently
, two new hotels opened in the city, the Korean-owned, 50-room Koresco, classified as a leisure and first-class hotel, and the 120-room Mallberry, a business hotel inside Limketkai Center. Another large hotel is under construction in this commercial complex, right along Lapasan Highway.
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Sports
Facilities
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2008:
Pelaez Sports Complex is one of the biggest outside Metro Manila, and is currently being renovated for use in national olympics. Everything is being upgraded. The track-and-field alone, previously plain soil, is being rubberized at a cost of P22 million.
The exclusive Xavier Sports & Country Club provides international standard
tennis court, a fitness gym, basketball courts, and a swimpool. The owner and developer of Xavier Estates, A Brown Company, Inc. is also constructing Teakwood Hills with similar sports facilities in barangay Agusan.
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Establishments |
Quantity |
| Tennis courts |
Camp Evangelista, Capitol
Compound, Pelaez Sports Center, Nazareth Subdivision, Xavier Sports & Country
Club |
5 |
| Bowling alleys |
Double E, Xavier Sports & Country
Club, Family Bowling, Ororama Mega |
4 |
| Gymnasiums and
mini theaters |
8 |
| Golf courses
and driving ranges |
4 |
| Physical fitness
gyms |
4 |
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Restaurants
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2003:
Forty-seven restaurants all over the city offer various local and
foreign cuisines. Some popular chains are Jollibee, McDonald, Pizza
Hut, and Shakey's Pizza. But local businessmen offer innovative themes
as well. Examples are Bigby's, Centro, Consuelo, and P. Joe's Diner.
In October 2008, SLERS Ham and Café opened in the corner of Velez and M.H. del Pilar. SLERS consults the advertising firm Nazca Graphic Design & Photography regularly for package design, posters, booth designs, colors, and websites.
The city government converted a large section
of the divisoria into an open-air restaurant called Night Cafe, an
imitation of the refurbished
Bay Walk along
Roxas Boulevard in Manila. Held every Friday and Saturday, the main
dish is chicken barbecue, prepared mainly by poor families who welcome
this government-created reverly. It starts at 5 pm with the arrival
of portable tents, food and cooking equipment, then ends at midnight.
Shoes, clothes, and agricultural products are also sold. Local musicians
provide free concerts, to the delight of the audience.
Despite
its popularity, Night Cafe is poorly planned and flippant:
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would expect an abundance of coffee, but beer is common instead.
- It requires the closure of the circumferential street in divisoria,
resulting in further traffic congestion.
- The garish ornamentation
has supplanted the original, historical look of the park, where
the monuments of national heroes used to take center stage.
- Complaints
regarding some drunks urinating in public have caused the government
to build two toilets, one behind the statue of Dr. Jose Rizal,
and the other facing the monument of Andres Bonafacio, where the
bones of Cagayan de Oro revolutionaries are buried.
- The globular
street lamps look like the virus that causes AIDS, SARS and swine flu.
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2003: Eighteen
cinema houses provide air-conditioned, spacious venues for motion picture
entertainment. Some are equipped with Dolby sensurround technology.
Occasionally, the theatres are also used to host beauty pageants. |
Shopping
Centers
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2008:
There are six major malls -- Gaisano, Ororama, the sprawling Limketkai
Center, and SM City, Makro and Big R Super Center.
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Live
Music
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2008:
Night bars offer karaoke and live music entertainment by highly talented
local artists. Occasionally, singers, actors and dancers from Cebu,
Manila and abroad perform.
Concerts and stage plays are presented in the Atrium
of Limketkai Center, and in the auditoriums of Liceo de Cagayan University,
Capitol University, and Xavier University.
Unknown to many, the new auditorium of Kong Hua School has sloped floor
and excellent acoustics.
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| Adventure
& Exploration |
2008:
In and around Cagayan de Oro are natural sites for the thrill seekers:
In the forest of Claveria is a series of hanging bridges 120 feet
high, offering an exhilarating view of the rich green canopy. There
are also caves, underground rivers, and services for white-water
rafting. Cagayan River is the venue of a national rafting competition
in 2003.
East
of Cagayan de Oro are resorts offering diving services: Mantangale
Alibuag Dive Resort and Duka
Bay Resort.
See alsobeach resorts of Misamis Oriental.
2003-2009: Of
interest to foreign tourists and scholars isHuluga, an archaeological site damaged in 2003 to give way
to a city government bridge project despite protests by heritage conservationists.
The remaining Obsidian Hill,
where a whale harpoon has been found, among other artifacts and
fossils, is being subjected to quarrying. The hill is the location of
a prehistoric settlement.
Moreover, the archaeological caves and vicinity are being "developed" for
tourism by a former director of the Department of Environment and
Natural Resources (DENR), despite a law that prohibits private
ownership of caves.
The current administration has no program for protecting archaeological sites. |
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