Cutural Tour of Southern Cebu

Another photo-blog of a recent trip South of Cebu. A historic and scenic trip stretching about 180 kilometers until you get to the tip of South Cebu in Bato, Santander where you get on a ro-ro (roll-on, roll-off) boat to cross the channel to Negros Island.
Picture : Boljoon Cemetery

From Cebu City you can drive or take a bus going all the way South and drop by historic old towns with equally old churches and structures. Too bad that these buildings are not being maintained as they can be featured in an amazing cultural tour of the island.


Cebu is more than just lovely beaches, mangoes, guitars. It is the central hub of the Visayas and a major take off point to other locations within the island and neighboring visayan ports and towns.

Picture : Club Fort Med - Boljoon



Picture : Argao Church; A must-visit in Argao - Alecx Cafe
Culturally, it is also the seat of the Catholic faith in the Philippines (thus explaining the numerous old churches dotting the seaside towns dating as ancient as early 1500s) as the location where Magellan landed to spread the religion and was dutifully filleted by Lapu lapu.
How ironic, the iconic Filipino hero is named after a fish that's being filleted and gutted in Chinese restaurants. Yummy!


Alcoy - Kids off to School

Alcoy - Old Seminary where religious families were bred and born, courtesy of the horny friars. Oh, I can just feel it... the hate mails coming from the fanatical religious. By the way, I do come from a religious family. My great great grandfather was a friar.

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