Ride Fun with Kalesa

July 29, 2010 · Posted in Philippine Traditions · 2 Comments 

A kalesa or calesa is Philippines traditional mode of transportation. It is not just an ordinary horse back riding because there is a calash (carriage) attached at the back of the horse. On that way, it can accommodate few more passengers in just a single ride. The word “calesa” originally predates the Spanish conquest and descends ultimately from an Old Church Slavonic word meaning “wheels”.
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Cebu Magellan’s Cross

November 16, 2008 · Posted in Philippine Attractions · Comment 

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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