Bantayan Island, Cebu, Philippines
Bantayan Island is a semi-little secret island of paradise and one of the 15 islands clustered off in the northwest tip of Cebu. If you want to breathe fresh air and stay away from the heavy traffic in the city, Bantayan Island is a perfect place for you. Everyone can get there around via motorbikes with less traffic. Aside from that, this place is also known for its powder white sands, crystal clear water, especially along the southwest coast and a low-key, laid-back resort with very friendly people around there.
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Cebu’s Marco Polo Plaza Hotel
Marco Polo Plaza is a 5-star hotel which is located at an altitude of 600 feet in Nivel Hills Cebu, Philippines. The hotel is very accommodating and easily reachable within 25 minutes from the Mactan International Airport by riding your private vehicle. It only takes 10 minutes from the business and commercial centers of Cebu City.
With its first-class accommodations, unmatched restaurant cuisine and top quality facilities, Marco Polo Plaza guarantees that every visit is going to be a timeless experience. Enjoy the new colors, aromas, and tastes at Marco Polo Plaza’s reputable cuisine outlets: Café Marco and El Viento. The cuisines served in these restaurants comprise Mediterranean, South-East Asian, Western, and Filipino.
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Olango Island, Philippines
Olango Island is approximately located five kilometers east of Mactan Island in Cebu. It lies between the Bohol Strait to the south and the Camotes Sea to the north. To the east is the Olango Channel while to the west is the Hilutungan Channel. The island has seven barangays, one of which is Sta. Rosa (erroneously used to refer to the whole of Olango Island), where the island’s wharf and parish church is located. Olango Island hosts seven Lapu-Lapu city ba-rangays, namely, Baring, Caw-oy, Sabang, Santa Rosa, Talima, Tingo and Tunga-san.
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Malapascua Island, Cebu
Malapascua is a tiny island which found in the northernmost part of Cebu. The island is approximately about 2.5 kilometers long and 1km wide covered by the insular barangay of Logon (part of the Daanbantayan municipality), with eight hamlets. It only took 45 minutes pumboat ride away from Maya. You can get to Maya easily by taking a 4-hour trip by bus or mini-van from the North Bus terminal in Cebu City. Maya is some 145 kilometers away from the city via narrow and winding road passing through scenic landscapes along the way.
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Via Crusis in Cebu
As a Lenten season is fast approaching, Via Crusis is one way to repent ourselves. It is a Lenten movement happens every April 1 where devotees from Cebu City and its neighboring cities and towns do their penitential procession through cities the Station of the Cross built on 12 hectares of rolling hills. Via Crusis is a Latin for The Way of the Cross, or sometimes called The Way of Sorrows refers to the portrayal of the passion of the Christ and the devotion commemorating it. The life-size statues of the 14 Stations of the Cross have been patterned after the Way of the Cross in Lourdes, France.
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Cebu Magellan’s Cross
Magellan’s Cross is a Christian Cross planted by Portuguese and Spanish Explorers as ordered by Ordered by Ferdinand Magellan upon arriving in Cebu in the Philippines on April 21, 1521. It is mainly located in a street aptly name for the first Portuguese to set foot in Cebu, Magallanes. He planted a cross to signify this important event about the propagation of the Roman Catholic faith in what is now Cebu, in central Philippines. The original cross is reputedly encased in another wooden cross for protection, as people started chipping it away in the belief that it had miraculous healing powers.
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Welcome to Malapascua Island, Philippines
Malapascua is a tiny island also called Logon, only about 2.5 kilometers long and 1km wide, located across a shallow strait from the northernmost tip of mainland Cebu. It is situated in the province of Daanbantayan and the island is covered by the insular barangay of Logon (part of the Daanbantayan municipality), with eight hamlets. Visitors can take a dive in the crystal clear ocean at the wreck of a World War II Japanese ship or go snorkeling among the fishes at the many coral reefs surrounding the island, take a trip around the island, or just relax in the white sand and let the wind in the palm trees till you sleep.
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Team Cebu nails third in the Philippine Olympic Festival-bound Team
The Philippine Olympic Festival bound Team Cebu City Football finished third in the Pintaflores Football Festival in San Carlos City. A third-place finish may be a respectable achievement, but coach Mario Ceniza says they still have a lot of work to do if they are to compete with the traditional powerhouse Iloilo in the POF later this year in Cagayan de Oro City. Not all members of POf-Tcc joined the San Carlos City event, while Iloilo sent its full squad and eventually defeated the Host Team, 4-1 to rule the event.
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Sinulog Festival for Señor Santo Niño
Nowhere else in the Philippines can one witness a yearly historical pageantry in parade known as Sinulog which is part of a religious observance except in Cebu City. The Sinulog is an annual festival held on every third Sunday of January. It honors the child known as the Santo Niño, patron of the city of Cebu. The dance moves two steps forward and one step backward to the sound of the drums. This resembles the current (Sulog) of what was then known as Cebu’s Pahina River. Thus, in Cebuano, they say it’s Sinulog. The Sinulog dance steps were believed to originate from Rajah Humabon’s adviser, Baladhay. It was during Humabon’s grief when Baladhay was driven sick. He then ordered his natives to bring Baladhay into a chapel where the Sto. Niño was enthroned. The festival now features a street parade with participants in bright-colored costumes dancing to the rhythm of drums, trumpets, and native gongs.
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Cebu
Cebu also known as Zubu (or Sugbo), is one of the famous islands in the Philippines that lie to the east of Negros Island; to the west of Leyte and to the southeast of Bohol province. It is located between 9°25′N and 11°15′N latitude and between 123°13′E and 124°5′E longitude in the center of the archipelago. As of the 2007 census, there were 798,000 people living in Cebu City, with over 3.5 million in the entire province. Cebuano is their native dialect and also spoken in most parts of Central and Southern Philippine Islands, including Bohol, western Leyte, Negros Oriental, the northern and eastern coast of Mindanao, some parts of Bukidnon, Agusan, Surigao, Davao, Cotabato, and Zamboanga del Sur. While Filipino is commonly understood and spoken, the English language is widely used in business transactions and educations.
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