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Hotels
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2003:
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.
See list
of hotels.
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Sports
Facilities
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2003:
Pelaez Sports Complex is one of the biggest outside Metro Manila.
But the Xavier Sports & Country Club provides international standard
tennis court, a fitness gym, basketball courts, and a swimpool.
| Facility |
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.
The city government converted a large section
of the divisoria into an open-air restaurant called Night Cafe, an
imitation of the refurbished
Bay Walkalong
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. One
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 near the monument of Andres Bonafacio, where the
bones of Cagayan de Oro revolutionaries are buried. The globular
street lamps -- the same as those in Manila -- look like coronaviruses. |
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Cinema
Houses
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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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2007:
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.
The new auditorium of Kong Hua School has sloped floor
and excellent acoustics. |
| Adventure
& Exploration |
2003:
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.
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interest to foreign tourists and scholars is Huluga,
an archaeological site largely destroyed in 2003 to give way
to a city government bridge project. The remaining Obsidian Hill,
where a whale harpoon has been found, among other artifacts and
fossils, is being exposed to quarrying. The hill is the venue of
a prehistoric settlement. The 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. Protests by a small band of heritage conservationists
have failed to stop the destruction. |
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