5 do's for Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines
Blog: 99 + 1 countries - 7 August 2009
By: merja
1. Learn more about the special bond Filipinos have to prisoners. Unlike in Palawan where you can go see prisoners work on a farm, in Cebu City you can go watch them hip hop. They promise you mass murderers! Now if that's not an enterprising approach to tourism then what is? Serial rapists square dancing? The show goes on every last Saturday of the month and you can watch them dance to Bonnie Tyler's I need a hero here.
2. Do the sights (shabby castle on the left) in like 5 minutes. Then get completely lost and wander around for six hours in blazing heat. When you finally get to Osmana Fuente Circle, from where you know how to get home, realize that the only proper landmark in the city, the casino tower which you've been seeing all along, is there in the circle.
3. Have one of those only in the Philippines candle lit dinners at a restaurant complex which wants to be a car park. While you eat watch cockroaches climb up and down the wall. And what is that smell, poo?
4. Learn a new way to define fish: "semi-boneless". Dread the prospect of once getting semi-bony fish on your plate.
5. After some serious misbehaving: Retreat! Catch a slow boat to Tagbilaran in Bohol and lounge on the deck beds for the 4,5 hour journey on a calm sea.
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