Basilica Minore del Santo Niño & Magellan’s Cross

Posted on March 2, 2008

A place I truly call home is where I was born and raised, Cebu City: the oldest and most visited city in the Philippines. Crowned the Queen City of the South, Cebu is a dynamic metropolis, looking forward to the future as one of Asia’s prime commercial hubs, and always in touch with a past brimming with so much history. In 1521, Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan–the man who headed the first expedition that circumnavigated the Earth–first landed on the islandRead More→

7,107 Reasons to Travel

Posted on March 2, 2008

My spur-of-the-moment foray into travel blogging was a result of my stark realization, and visualization, concerning my Philippine travel experience. At LAKBAYAN, a beta mapping project created by techno blogger Eugene Villar, you can map out your travels in and around our 7,107 islands and survey your unchartered Philippine destinations. I only got a C+. To improve my grade, I vowed to see more of my country and chronicle my exploits–big or small–around my home province of Cebu, the urban jungle ofRead More→