Cebu Trip

It would seem like in any place here in the country, we have SM malls so the trip won't be complete until we've visited the mall.
This is where we had our dinner after our first day of touring Cebu City. It was a very productive day and I have another itinerary planed the next day.

It's kinda weird though writing about this trip a month after but it was also a good way to reminisce the vacation and the whole experience.

Next: Day 3 in Cebu.

Colon St Marker

Onour way to our supposedly last destination of the day, Cathedral museum, we passed by the Colon St. marker. It is said that this is the oldest estableshed street in the Philippines and we have that obelisk to mark that.



J Just a meters from Colon st. is the Rajah Humabon park. Nothing much to see here so I just snapped the sitting Rajah monument shown in the picture. Just across this park is the Cebu cathedral Museum but unfortunately because of the nap we had in the afternoon, we were not able to get inside the museum as it is already closed.

So we missed two museums in Cebu, the Museo Sugbo and the Cathedral museum. I don't know if we would still go back to Cebu, if we do at lease we still have new things to see. On the way to SM city Cebu for our dinner, we passed by Plaza Independencia again which is right beside Fort San Pedro.

Cebu Heritage Site

Going back the street where Yap-SanDiego house is the Cebu Heritage site. It's a sculpture showing the history of Cebu from the arrival of the spaniards to Christianity. It also shows some famous Cebuanos.

While we're here, there's another group of tourists visiting the place and they have their own tour guide. I've pretty much listened to the guy in Barong with a hat speaking on his portable PA strap on his belt. One thing that surprise me was when he pointed to a lady in the sculpture who is Josephine Bracken. That coaught my attention as to why she was there and the tour guide pointed out that after Rizal's death, Josephine went to marry a cebuano businessman and she in turn worked as an English tutor to no other than the 4th President of the Philippines, Sergio Osmena. Another famous cebuano.

Casa Gorordo

Just a little walk from Yap-Sandiego house is another house museum, Casa Gorordo. Casa Gorordo is pretty much showcases the whole house and the different rooms of a typical Casa during the Spanish era.

Yap-San Diego Ancestral House

After a short nap at the hotel, we're on the road again to continue my DIY Cebu City Tour. We went to Yap-SanDiego ancestral House first. It was really an old house and the caretaker was so kind to give us an unofficial tour of the place. He gave us the information about who owned the place and how they were able to keep the antiques and the old utensils intact.





They removed the ceiling of the house so the can show the chalk 'tisa' roof.

Basilica del Sto. Nino

Just across the Magellan's Cross marker is the Basilica del Sto. Nino. It is 16th century church built on the spot where the image of Sto Nino, a sculpture of the depicting the child Jesus christ was found by Spanish explorers in 1565 preserved in a burned wooden box which was left behind during the 1521 Magellan expedition.

We also went inside the church's museum where it housed old religuous relics and images.

Magellan's Cross

Next stop is the Magellan's Cross.

Fort San Pedro, Cebu

After a good night's sleep at Hotel Elizabeth and a sumptuous breakfast buffet, our first stop of the day was Fort San Pedro. The cab we rode actually offered a package tour but we opted not to avail as first, it's costly and the other was I don't want the trip to have time constraint. It was a good decision because half way of the tour I planned, Jethro requested to go back to the hotel and rest.

Anyways, going back to Fort San Pedro. It's like a smaller version of Intramuros with it's old walls and cannons. Jethro enjoyed running on the grassland and sitting on the cannons. There were a lot paintings on two galleries.

Here are some of the pictures I got from Fort San Pedro.