Arrived at Cebu International Airport on Mactan island. Man. This airport is pretty lax in security. Once everyone from the plane left the airport, I was basically walking around looking for a taxi... all alone. No one in sight.
Well, the taxi people were visible... this felt pretty luxurious, a big difference from Nonoy International in Manila, where you have crowds waiting outside for family and friends.
...after getting settled in the hotel, I took a tour of historical Cebu. I only had a half day, and I was really tired from my Puerto Princessa trip. Took these photos before I crashed back at the hotel.
This is Magellan's cross. It's actually encased in a protective enclosure. Historically, people came to venerate the cross and took chips off it, believing that it had medicinal properties.
Forgot what this battleship of a statue was. It's basically a history of Catholic expansion and enslavement of the islands.
The Infanta encased in protective glass where people come and pray.
The four saints in front of the Church and convent of Santo Nino. As I was walking around, there was a school of little kids going to class with their moms.
By looking at all these pictures, it looks like I was on a religious pilgrimage. Well...these were the only pictures that actually turned out OK. Found myself by this Taoist temple.
Not much to say. The place was empty except for the guard at the gate and a few tourists taking pictures. Lao Tzu fishing. Yup... just needs a working water fountain, because theres' no freaking water, and there's no fish.
So yea, that's about it for Cebu. I didn't really take a lot of interesting pictures. What's cool about Cebu is that it's pretty clean. I noticed a lot of Koreans due to the English schools all over the city. Economic Free Trade zones were sprouting all over the place. Malls were just as big as their cousins in Manila.
It did feel... well, it felt more orderly than Manila.
0 comments:
Post a Comment