CEBU

Cebu City, known as the Queen City of the South is located in Region VII, Central Visayas, Republic of the Philippines. The second busiest city in the country and well known travel destination, has a lot to offer for anyone who is longing for a perfect get-away vacation and tour. Be captivated on well developed resorts, big hotels, massive establishments and other tourist spots surrounding the city.

Philippines "Sugbu", the original name of Cebu is another travel destination that was discovered in 1521 by a Spanish voyager Ferdinand Magellan, who made a blood compact with Rajah Humabon, his family and all villagers. He was able to convert all people to Christians and later on planted a wooden cross that became Cebu's first symbol of Christianity and one of the city's tourist spot. However, in one of his quest to conquer the island, he came across a courageous leader, Lapu-Lapu , who fought well. The famous battle is then called "Battle of Mactan.

All coast of Cebu Province, be it in north, south, east and west is surrounded by beautiful coastlines. There is the Moalboal, situated at west cost of Cebu. Known for being an extraordinary diving destination that tourist loved to visit. The dive starts at the beach, down to the beautiful hard and soft corals that houses thousand of tropical fishes are one of the many things that captivates divers and mark it as one of Cebu's tourist spot. In Moalboal, there is also the famed Pescador Island Marine Park. A shallow reef that shelters fan corals and sharks . The other side of Cebu, north coast, tourist can find the coated-sugar like white sand beached of Malapascua and Bantayan Islands. Another beautiful tourist spot in Cebu, Philippines is the Olango island, approximately five kilometers east of Mactan Island. This tourist spot supports the largest concentration of migratory birds found in Philippines, so far.

Cebu has a lot of beautiful resorts to offer to. There are resorts in Mactan Island, Crimson Beach Resort, Imperial Palace Resort, Maribago Blue Water, Shangri-la Mactan to name a few. There are also resorts at nearby islets of Mactan. Among them are Nalusuan Island Resort and Talima Resort. There are also notable beach resorts in Cebu Island. One of this is the exclusive island resort, Sumilon Bluewater and the equally famous resorts of Bantayan Island, Camotes Island, Malapascua Island and Moalboal.

Aside from the warm and friendly smiles of Cebuanos, there are also massive and great hotels tourist can stay. To start with, Cebu also has one of the famous and luxurious hotel on the world and in Philippines, the Marriot Hotel Cebu located right across the Ayala Mall. This four star hotel has suites, ordinary rooms and presidential suites. Cebu also has 3-star hotel, the Midtown Hotel Cebu located directly above a super market and a shopping mall, and just a footstep away from restaurants. One of Philippines business hotels is also in Cebu, the Parklane International Hotel Cebu located right in the middle of business district,.

Cebu's famous festival is the "Sinulog" or then called Cebu's Pahina River. One of the biggest and grandest festival held every third sunday of January is a dance ritual in honor of Cebu's patron saint Señor Sto. Nino. This festival starts with the procession, street dance and the well loved Mardi Gras - themed parade. In relation to this festival is the annual celebration  of "Kadaugan sa Mactan" on every twenty-seventh of April at Punta Engano, Mactan Island .

Travel and food go hand in hand. In exploring a tourist spot, not only the place we meticulously checked, but as well as the food. Everyone loves to eat! Discovering a great food is like finding a secret treasure, thus making a great travel. Anyone cannot resist Cebu's famous lechon or inasal eating with the hanging rice. Cebu also has a lot of delicacies. The rice magic, locally known as Ampaw, made of rice grain and sugarcane extract of Carcar, Cebu, Otap or the oval-shapped pastry, world known sweetest mango, in juice, fresh or dried, sun-dried fish, chicharon, rosquillos or the ring cookies and a lot of more.

Queen City of the South, Cebu modes of transportation includes Jeepneys - Philippines' Kings of the Road, taxi cabs, buses that can bring tourist and visitors to roam around. These transportations can be seen, literally on all sides of main roads and streets. Almost all taxi trips around the city would just cost more or less Php100. For the jeepneys with designated routes costs less, approximately Php15 per head can bring any tourist to travel destinations they want.

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