Explore Cagayan de Oro

Your online guide here in the City of Golden Friendship - Cagayan de Oro Philippines. From hotels, to shopping malls, restaurants, night life, and events, Explore CDO will be your comprehensive web portal for Cagayan de Oro City's lifestyle and attractions.

Limketkai Mall’s Cinema 1 Goes 3D

Limketkai 3D Cinema

We’re very happy to know that another 3D Cinema will be opening soon here in the city of Golden Friendship. Limketkai Center, one of the famous malls here in Cagayan de Oro will be opening its first 3D Digital Cinema on February 2, 2011 with the movie Tangled on its first screening day. Brace yourselves for another fun-filled 3d movie experience at Limketkai Mall’s Cinema on Wednesday. Tickets are sold at 250php.

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Jatico Adventures – Extreme Adrenaline in Bayanga will open in January 2011

Jatico Adventures Bayanga

Another extreme and outdoor adventure destination for tourists planning to have a fun filled visit here in the city of Golden Friendship will be opening on January 2011. Jatico Adventures located in Barangay Bayanga, just a 19 minute drive from downtown CDO, will open its activity area to tourists and locals in the city of Cagayan de Oro. If you’re planning to go whitewater river rafting, why not include the newly built recreational facility in Bayanga to your travel itinerary, which is said to offer extreme adventure activities such as a 4-course zipzone, zorb, big swing, and a bungee tramp. They also provide amenities for visitors planning to have their team buildings and outings. Their amenities include native huts for mountain lodgers, campsites, a 5-hectare mountain trek area, and a boot camp.

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Cagayan de Oro Whitewater Rafting listed among the top 25 things to do in the PI

Philippine Daily Inquirer’s lifestyle section lists Whitewater Rafting in Cagayan de Oro as the first among the list of top 25 things to do in the country.

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Mamma Maria’s Pizzeria Now Open in Cagayan de Oro

Mamma Maria's Pizzeria

Mamma Maria’s Pizzeria, ‘Home of the World’s Biggest Pizza’, recently opened their first branch in Cagayan de Oro along Corrales and Hayes Street. The Italian-inspired pizza house that originated in Bacolod is famous for its 52 and 63-inch pizza with a wide variety of flavors to choose from. For food lovers with small appetite, you can choose from their pizza menu with sizes ranging from eight to 30 inches. Also try out their combo meals at very affordable price and if you’re going to be with friends might as well try out the ‘create-your-own-pizza-concept’ in their menu, where customers can add different kinds of toppings to their pizza.

Check out Mamma Maria’s Pizza Menu for pricing and sizes:

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SM Cinema 1 will show Avatar 3D on November 13

SM Cinema will showcase Avatar 3D during the launching of their first 3D Cinema here in Cagayan de Oro on November 13, 2010, Saturday. Be there at the SM City Cinema 1 on the opening day of SM Cagayan de Oro’s first digital theater. Watch Avatar 3D and be ready for this very exciting experience.

SM Digital Theaters use real silver-screens to ensure high-quality light reflection to give you the brightest colors and sharpest pictures. The SM Digital Theater technology delivers  razor-sharp and life-like images for the ultimate in picture quality. Digital theater technology delivers a true digital picture with incredible clarity and vibrant colors every show by casting a range of up 35 million colors; a feat that can never be equaled by any  ordinary movie film.

SM Cinema Cagayan de Oro Goes 3D

sm-cinema-cdo

SM City Cagayan de Oro is proud to open its first SM Digital Theater at the SM Cinema 1 on November 12, 2010. Watch out for this very exciting early Christmas present that every Kagay-anon’s been wishing for. This means that we’ll be experiencing a full 3D version of Hollywood movies that only IMAX Theatre in Manila’s been offering. Now CDO has its very own 3D Cinema at SM City Cagayan de Oro and we just can’t wait for it to open.

SM Digital Theaters, one of the first digital cinema in the Philippines, opened its doors to the public on November 14, 2007 at The Block SM City North EDSA with Beowulf 3D as its first movie shown. Since then, SM Digital Theater opened up opportunities for 3D cinema and featured some of the biggest 3D movies like Up, A Christmas Carol, Avatar, and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, giving moviegoers a fully-immersive 3D experience.

Watch out for the opening of SM Digital Theater at the Cinema 1 of SM City Cagayan de Oro on November 12, 2010. See you there!

Thai Me Up Cagayan de Oro Turns 1

Thai-me-up-1st-anniversary

Thai Me Up is celebrating its first year anniversary on October 28, 2010. The Thai-inspired fine dining restaurant here in the city of Cagayan de Oro is offering a lunch buffet with 12 appetizing dishes to choose from for only Php299, with new specialty dishes to be introduced on their anniversary date. The Thai Me Up lunch buffet starts at 11:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Thai Me Up is located at the corner of Capistrano and Mabini streets in this city. When in Cagayan de Oro try out Thai Me Up’s popular dishes like the bagoong rice, appetizing pomelo salad and tom yang goong or hot and sour prawn soup. You can indulge yourself on a variety of sweet and spicy Thai menu: beef in basil sauce and fish fillet in black pepper sauce, crabs cooked with chili or with panaeng, the dry, red Thai curry paste, pork spare ribs, as well as the Thai spring rolls.

For inquiries call 73-THAI(8414)