CEBU: My Brief Flirtation with a Queen City
However brief my stint at Cebu was, I was able to see why people call this uber city the Queen City of the South and why the Cebuanos are proud of their origin. Cebu is where one can find the old and the new, the heritages of our past as well as the markers of a rapidly growing locale. It is also the gateway to other tourist destinations in the Visayas . Within the short hours of our stay there, we've been to some of the well-known historic sites in the metro city and met several different individuals, from taxi drivers to souvenir vendors and ladies selling candles and performing the prayer dance--all of them have been very cordial and accommodating to us. These short encounters left me yearning for more. The DIY tipid tourists: Lhei, biyahera and Pyke (Squall took the pic) We went to Cebu for our Bohol tour--about which, I will rave in my next post (*smiles*). But instead of going straight to Tagbilaran, we dropped by in Cebu first. Being the budget travelers that we were, we tho