I Heart Cebu

I HEART CEBU
-ryandgreat, tagbilaran, bohol

there's no place in the philippines that i'd love visit than cebu city!

yes i badly want to visit cebu ever since and its a dream destination for me

and that opportunity happened not just once because i have visited cebu city four times in just a year!

August 2013 | Ryan Heart Cebu and Cebu Heart Ryan

December 2012 | the view from our hotel room in Cebu City

August 2013 | in front of  Magellan's cross

August 2013 | the Magellan's cross

August 2013 | at the Fort San Pedro

August 2013 | the Cebu Province Capitol

the first visit was a work related! that's for the launch of radyo5 cebu on 2012 of november

since it's a business trip, i only had a brief tour around the city,

mostly during lunch and on our way to tv5 cebu station and back to our hotel

we stayed at the regency hotel cebu, quite near the city capitol and some establishments that are walking distance to fuente osmena

on 12th november was the launching of local version of radyo5 newsfm in cebu,

local radio arm of tv5 manila

with a live broadcast of some tv5 news programs, punto asintado, t3 and aksyon primetime from cebu

immediately following my last leg of work, 

we headed again to cebu for another round of work, this time with maricel halili and my team (my first time to work with maricel halili outside manila)

there was a political crisis in cebu, few days before christmas

cebu governor gwen garcia was suspended by malacanan and vice governor agnes magpale sworn in as acting governor

this caused a lot of tension in the capitol of cebu!

as supporters of both party stayed outside while the suspended governor also stayed in her office to express her resistance in the order of suspension

on the first week of january we went back to cebu, once again for the exact same story

so all in, i've been in and out of cebu 3 times and 2 weeks apart

November 12, 2012 | News5 Anchors, Martin Andanar and Erwin Tulfo at TV5 Cebu

November 2012 | Punto Asintado in Cebu - November 2012

November 12, 2012 | Erwin Tulfo live anchoring from Cebu, for Aksyon Primetime

January 11, 2013 | Cebu politcal crisis

November 2012 | my first visit to Cebu

August 2013 | my fourth visit to Cebu

and it was all amazing!, but that was all for work

and i haven't explored the city that much

and so, last week was a time for purely vacation in cebu! with my family

our first stop, the mactan shrine, only few meters away from mactan international airport of cebu,

and then we headed downtown, at the magallanes street, cebu city,

our first stop, the famous and the historical magellan's cross named after ferdinand  magellan during spanish time

also on the same street is the basilica of Santo Nino, one of the oldest catholic church

cebu city has it's own fort santiago, the fort san pedro located at the plaza independencia,

just like fort santiago in manila that's surrounded by walls but here is too small, with a garden and museum inside

the transportation around cebu city is accesible mostly to jeepneys and taxi

it's highly urbanized district, with big shopping malls and business centeres around the city,

but unlike in manila, the traffic situation in cebu is somewhat manageable

it's urban but in a probinsiya feels with its historical and heritage sites around the city

those are my reasons why i most definitely love cebu city!

it's always my dream local destination and time and again, i look forward to visit either for work or for pleasure!

til' next time! daghang salamat cebu city!