Excursion Day: Day 6 & 7 "First Excursion"

August 18^th, 2018 

Hello Guys, Happy Weekend!!!

This day actually we were had tour city but we had miscommunication with Dr. Rita. Because we didn’t confirmation about the day for the city tour, so she hasn’t contact the agency tour guide for us and also that day was raining day. Oh how poor we were, our first weekend for excursion day was failed.

But there must be lesson that we could take from all this. From this raining day you could saw the beautiful city with pouring rain on it. Look at the picture, that was beautiful Cebu City from the school building where I stayed. So I just enjoyed the raining day by stayed in the dorm all the time, talking about any story with my roommate and doing our blog. 

Raining day

But this day we had special moment, we were invaded our buddies in our dorm. Our first buddy Reggy as the President Student Council in University of San Carlos South Campus brought his other friends to introduced them to us.  Well, we had other buddy then J. They were very friendly. We were talking about Cebu City, they suggest us about the place that we had to visited and also we arranged our tour plan. They planned to guided us on Sunday.

It was so nice to know them all, occasionally we learn few words of Tagalog language from them and also they learn few words of Indonesia language.  Sometimes we laughed each other about the new words that we thought that funny because that was the first time we heard it. Because they had another schedule this day so we ended our meeting today by took a selfie. So waited for the next day.

The Buddies, practicumers from UNILA(Adit and Ivanna), Me and Nia from UNRAM

August 19^th, 2018 

Well, well, well, finally today was coming. Today, our buddies will be accompany us too look around the Cebu City. They would took us to some famous place in Cebu. But unfortunately, just Reggy would accompany us because the other buddies couldn’t made it.  Reggy was came with his father and took us with their car, so nice people.

The first place we had visited was Tabuan Market. Reggy took us there to help us to brought our necessity like vegetables, fruits, eggs, etc. The market not quite different with Indonesia. Reggy was great guide, he even want to paid our stuffs. After we got our need, he and his father took us back to the campus to put our stuff first before we were going to explore the city. Yeaahhh!!

At Tabuan Market

So, our second destination was Fort San Pedro. Fort San Pedro was a military defense structure in Cebu, built by Spanish. It is located in area called Plaza Independencia, in the pier area of the city. We were look around the building, the place was so awesome. There were many beautiful spot to took a photo. Also the important thing was that you’ll knew the little part story of Cebu history, about the hero of Cebu that one of them was Lapu-Lapu. I knew him before as the character of Mobile Legend (online gameJ). Then we just a lot took pictures to keep it as our memory in Cebu. After took many pictures, we decided to leave.

Picture of Lapu-Lapu behind me, The local Revolution

That day was very hot day even that we surround the city by walking. But we just enjoy it a lot because we were too curious everything about Cebu. Before we going to our next destination we’re going to Central Plaza, we just took a rest a few minutes and ate French Fries.

The next place was City Hall of Cebu. But when we were on our way went there we’re saw the souvenir seller. So we’re interested by the souvenir to brought it to Indonesia when we came back. I bought some key chains for my friends in Indonesia and I bought some T-shirt for my family. Reggy not just accompany us to beautiful place, he even help us to bargain the price of the souvenir. And the seller agree to lower the price when we bought it a lot. Nice trick! J

The Souvenirs

Then we continue our tour to Basilica del Santo Niño de Cebú.  When you go there, you’ll find City Hall of Cebu and Maggellan’s Cross. So the Cebu City Hall is home to the mayor, vice mayor, councilorsa, legislative and executive officers and  city administrator. Meanwhile the Magellan’s Cross, Magellan was the name of Portuguese that is Ferdinand Magellan. Maggellan planted a wooden cross on the shores of cebu to commemorate the baptism of Humabon (Chieftain of Cebu), his wife, and their subjects, and to signify the establishment of Christianity in the Philippines. The cross that Magellan planted has been known since then as the Magellan’s cross. The cross has been housed inside a small chapel or kiosk that is shape like a gazebo and made of adobe and red tiles. The kiosk is located beside the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebú on Magellan’s Street and in fron of the city hall building of Cebu City.

Cebu's City Hall

Magellan's Cross

So then let’s move to Basilica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebú. Basilica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebú (Minor Basilica of the Holy Child of Cebú) commonly known as the Santo Niño Basilica, was a minor basilica in Cebu City in the Philippines. Also the oldest Roman Catholic church in the country. I was impressed by the building, although it looked like oldest building but still looked artistic and there were so many people visited it. When you came in to the building you’ll see beautiful church inside it, the design was like lighting your eyes. There many catholic people were praying also the tourist that just came for looking that beautiful place. I enjoyed the place so much with my other practicumers friend also our buddy Reggy that had explained us averything about the place we were visited. The coolest buddy J

Basilica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebú building from the outside

Inside Basilica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebú

In front of Basilica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebú

Well guys, that was the end of my story today. How about my story guys? So interesting and add your knowledge right? I’ll be back with another amazing story. Don’t ever miss it!

Reggy, Adit and Ivanna from UNILA, Me and Nia From UNRAM