Thursday, March 3, 2011

"Philippine" often happy (Cebu + Mint) tour (2)

Prof.Wu, everyone in the hotel lobby, began the first day's itinerary. First go to a restaurant to eat lunch, is not pure Chinese food to eat, eat, eat breakfast, you are late to complete tasks like eating a point.

Day's excursion is the Cebu City tour, go to the original itinerary there's attractions – Beverly Hills in a Chinese Taoist temple.

Taoist temple is in Cebu City, deeply rooted in the Chinese population of a powerful miniature, built in 1964, is a classic-style building, is 600 years b.c. Chinese philosopher Lao Zi's sermon, got there when it began to rain, because also the uphill climb a step, there is no umbrella we can only give up (also because the reasons do not belief Taoism).

Then we went to the Magellan's cross, Magellan cross is located in Cebu Island, 1521, Portugal Navigator Magellan in Cebu proclaim the Catholic faith, falls on the 14 April, the local priest Pedro Valderama as the first Filipino Catholics — indigenous Rajah Humabon Patriarch, his wife Queen Juana and other 400 indigenous baptized ceremony was held.

To commemorate this great religious ceremony, Magellan was erected in Cebu.

In order to protect this historical antiquities, leading to the Church of the Holy Childhood Houlairen St. paitrault en route to Fort built a Pavilion-style house to hold it, now even more special with Tinadalo wood creating a hollow outer box put it concealed.

At the same time, the hexagonal ceiling murals, retaining the original appearance of the year, the color is gorgeous and lifelike. Cebu and espoused very great respect for the historical and cultural significance of the cross, every Sunday morning there will be countless believers carry candles come to pray for safe and good luck with great devotion. We went just happened to be Sunday, witnessed it all. In the Magellan cross edge is the Church of the Holy Childhood, Sunday at people packed the whole Church. Divine infant church built in the year 1565, the world-famous "shengyingxiang" collection. It is said that the then Rajah Humabon indigenous elders and his wife Queen Juana after Magellan baptized as a gift, a black skin styling "shengyingxiang" to the Queen Juana as gifts. 1565 years, Cebu flames start a prairie fire, April 27, a fire razed the Cebu, only this "shengyingxiang" as good as the locals call it signs at the beginning, but to worship.

Afterwards, the Captain Miguel Lopez de Legaspi and Fr.Andres Urdaneta in discovery "shengyingxiang" locations "infant Jesus Christ like" copy "of" shengyingxiang deposited at the Catholic Cathedral of the convent, and the size of the original "shengyingxiang" worship at the altar in the Church.

The seat height 40 cm wooden "infant Jesus Christ like" known as the oldest stands in the Philippines, has continued to be heated. We take a guided tour from the side look child, because the light is too dark, photo shoot a little fuzzy. From the crowd to go in too hard, the hot! ~, this is taken from the church doors inside the church square in a rainbow of colorful flags. The previous week is the El NiƱo Festival (Festival of immortal slave NOK) all have left a mark everywhere.

After we run back into the lives of the WATEFRONT Festival Eve Hotel, as is the hotel arranged for Chinese traditional lion dance performances that celebrate the Chinese new year.

After the show, night trips not arrange dinner, we at the hotel restaurants around, eat buffet not interested, Japanese cuisine and don't like, and finally on a guided tour of the pointing down found online recommended that the Philippines restaurant. Poor me, because not only have an English, Salina, only point I think a lot of the bovine bone POCHERO (online recommended Philippines first dishes), 325 Peso excluding tax of 12%. We of course have to have rice, saw my travel books are presented in Spain cuisine – Paella, various raw shrimp, clams, and squids, sausage, chicken, plus bottom made of vegetables, is rice. 255 pesos exclude taxes, that a bottle of beer. Total revenue spent 635 pesos (RMB 100), the two of us eat food has not yet finished, huh, huh ~, it eats more.

Get round, back to the hotel, the last day of a project to see Fireworks, hotel is well-established, are big fireworks and put a long time, we just be like alien after a different type of Chinese new year.

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