[TRAVEL]: Cebu City (Queen of the South) 2012

My whole family had our grand vacation for 2 weeks in the Philippines. Grand not because we splurged away our money but because we have visited our relatives from different islands in the Philippines and that is grand!! First stop was CEBU CITY! Cebu is my mom’s hometown and it is the place where "yours truly" was born. I have little recollection of what Cebu used to be, maybe because I was quite young when we left for Davao then to Hong Kong.

Day 1: Adjustments

The last time I was in Cebu with my whole family was in 2002. So going to Cebu after 10 long years was like going to a place for the very first time. Cebu Pacific air landed at exactly 4am on 20^th January at Mactan Cebu International Airport, we took a taxi to the City and reached home at around 5:30am. I spent the whole morning sleeping and in the afternoon, my brother and I went to SM mall, where he enjoyed his meal of Jollibee.

Day 2: Carbon Market(5:30am)

Carbon is known to be Cebu's oldest and biggest produce market. Hearing it most of the time from my grandma I decided to go for a visit the next morning. Usually that place is jammed packed with people but since we went there at 5am in the morning there weren't a lot of people. But I have to warn you, when you're nearing the fish stalls, the smell... it's unbearable. **Kaboom**

Day 2: CEBU ZOO 

The zoo  in Cebu is not the typical zoo that I see on TV. Though the people there were 101% friendly and very hospitable, the place was under developed. In my point of view the animals needed new crates. Though the place was clean it needed renovating. I was surprised when I saw the Tiger, it was Huge! Except you have to walk down the hill just to get a glimpse of it, but what bothered me was that, the Tiger was crippled. But they said that it was crippled already when they rescued him. After, we decided to go swimming, thankfully the swimming pool was just 10 minutes away from the zoo so it was very convenient. 

Day 3: Sunday - Church Day.

Afterchurch, we went to SM mall to watch Chipmunks 3. The funny thing was, I fell asleep! It was a snooze-fest movie! 

So that pretty much sums up the days I spent in Cebu City. Though we didn't get to visit other famous places our intention was to really spend time with our relatives. But our trip did not end there I have more yet to blog ... cause after 3 days spent in the City, we went to one of the Islands in Cebu which is the Camotes Islands. 

So wait for it! :D

Yours truly,

bex