Cebu is one of the most developed provinces in the Philippines, with Cebu City as the main center of commerce, trade, education and industry in the Visayas.
Cebu is known as the Queen city of the south... and its the oldest city in the Philippines. Cebu then known as Zubu (or Sugbo) was an island inhabited by Hindus, Buddhists, animists and Muslims ruled by Rajahs and Datus.
If you're planning to visit Cebu try to visits this places:
1. MACTAN SHRINE/ LAPU - LAPU SHRINE:
Souvenirs Shop's
2. PLAZA INDEPENDENCIA
near the Plaza there's also Fort San Pedro
Fuerte de San Pedro is a military defence structure, built by Spanish and indigenous Cebuano labourers under the command of Spanish conquistador, Miguel López de Legazpi and the Spanish Government in Cebu. It is located in the area now called Plaza Indepedencia, in the pier area of the city. The smallest, oldest triangular bastion fort in the country was built in 1738 to repel Muslim raiders. In turn, it served as a stronghold for Filipino revolutionaries near the end of the 19th century. This served as the nucleus of the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
3. BASILICA DEL SANTO NINO
The Minor Basilica of the Holy Child (Spanish: Basílica Minore del Santo Niño), commonly known as Santo Niño Church, is a minor basilica in Cebu City in the Philippines that was founded in the 1565. It is the oldest Roman Catholic church established in the country on the spot where the image of the Santo Niño de Cebú, a statue depicting the Child Jesus was found in 1565 by Spanish explorers led by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi. The Holy See calls the temple the "Mother and Head of all Churches in the Philippines" (mater et caput... omnium ecclesiarum Insularum Philippinarum). The image is the same statue given by Ferdinand Magellan to the wife of Rajah Humabon as a gift over forty years after Humabon's baptismto Christianity on April 14, 1521. It was found by a soldier preserved in a burnt wooden box after Legazpi razed the village of hostile natives. When Pope Paul VI made the church a basilica in 1965, he said it was "the symbol of the birth and growth of Christianity in the Philippines.
Beside the Church you will find the Magellan's Cross brought by Ferdinand Magellan
to introduce the Christianity to the Filipinos.
during the Novena
If you want to experience SINULOG FESTIVAL visit here by January 3rd Sunday. You will hear different beats of music in the streets, a color costumes of the dancers during the street dance and more...
4. CROWN REGENCY/SKY ADVENTURE
if you want some adventure try this rides
Zipline (with my Korean friend)
Sky walk... the view at night was so nice the colors of the lights is so pretty
they look like a dancing Christmas lights
For the rates of the Sky Adventure in Crown Regency Hotel you can visit their website: http://www.skyexperienceadventure.com/
5. Cebu Tops in Busay
Night View (photo credits to the internet) :)
Been here with my family but I can't find the photos
6. Taoist Temple, Lahug
photos taken from internet
(The little kiddo in there is ME ^_^ with my elder brother and sister and Aunt)
My memories I had in Taoist temple is I was playing in a seesaw with my brother
I think I was 5 years old that time.
6. Ayala Terraces Mall
That's the places I've been to visits but there's plenty of places in Cebu that you can visit. In Cebu downtown there's a plenty of structures that has historical stories like Ancestral homes, old structures during the World War II (not sure with that), beautiful white sand beaches, Falls and more.
Cebu is popular of MANGOES. You can eat green mangoes, ripe mangoes and even a dried mangoes which is my favorite snacks too. Sometimes I tried green mango shakes it's delicious and it taste sweet and sour a bit.
green mangoes
Ripe Mangoes
This one is a green mango with bagoong (fermented small shrimps) Filipinos loves to eat this.
