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It also has rolling hills and rugged mountain ranges traversing the northern and southern lengths of the island. Cebu’s highest mountains are over 1000 meters high. Flat tracts of land can be found in the towns of Bogo, San Remigio, Medellin and Daanbantayan at the northern region of the province. (continue reading…)

The Santo Niño de Cebú (“Holy Child of Cebu”) is a Roman Catholic figure of the Child Jesus highly similar to the Infant Jesus of Prague. Like the image’s counterpart in Prague, the figure is clothed in expensive textile robes mostly donations from fervent devotees in the Philippines and abroad. The statue is the oldest Catholic relic in the Philippines and permanently housed since 1565 at the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño in Cebu City, Cebu. In April 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, in the service of Charles I of Spain, arrived in Cebu during his voyage to find a westward route to the Indies. He persuaded Rajah Humabon and his wife Hara Amihan, to pledge their allegiance with Spain.

They were later baptized into the Catholic faith, taking the Christian names Carlos and Juana. Magellan presented the Santo Niño to the newly-baptized Queen Juana as a symbol of the alliance. To her husband Carlos, Magellan presented the bust of the “Ecce Homo”, or the depiction of Christ before Pontius Pilate.  (continue reading…)

My previous experiences during Philippine election was just okay, may it be local or national election.  But this years Philippine election is quiet tiring and hassle experience I have ever encountered since the time I started voting.

My family and I goes to the Ramon Duterte School here in Cebu where our precinct is located so we could cast our vote there.  We usually be on the site early in the morning, like the previous elections we’re there around 8:20 in the morning.  We just walk from the house to the precinct because there are less Jeepneys (transport vehicle use in the country) running this time of the year and another reason it just a 2 to 3 kilometer distance from the house to the precinct so we decided to walk. (continue reading…)