Cebu City

Best travel reports from Cebu City

Beauty, Kitsch, and Misery in Cebu

After a chaotic arrival in Cebu City at the end of May 2025, I explored the exciting, very vibrant city for several days.

Sirao Garden

First real trip - Sirao Garden

Our first 'crime' :O (Day 139 of the world trip)

21.01.2020 The night was great. The bed is quite hard, but it can be quite comfortable and the temperature and noise didn't interfere with sleeping :) We got up around 8:00 am...

Feedings

Distributing food to street children in the slums of Cebu City

Settling in

Settling in - finding your way around

Start of the IMS

First week of the IMS - it's turbulent

Cebu City

Our last night in Singapore was short - the alarm clock rang at 02:45, and the plane to the Philippines took off at 6:20. Even the airport during departure was exciting. The...

Cebu (City & Oslob)

Rule #1: Don't touch it! - Touching is strictly prohibited

Cebu Island - Philippines 🇵🇭

After a good 12 hours on the way from Japan to Seoul and Cebu, I finally arrived in the warmth again. I checked into the hostel at 2 a.m. and then slept in bed for a few hours....

Big sharks, small fish, lots of shade, lots of wind...

Next stop was the island of Cebu. And yes, we flew around a bit too much, which is not environmentally friendly... But it's so difficult to get around between the islands that...

"Are you BC?": D :D (Day 138 of the world trip)

20.01.2020 The night on the floor at the airport was more relaxing than expected! Of course, I was still dog-tired. It was a bit chilly all the time because of the air...

Moalboal (Cebu), The Philippines

We took a plane from the island of Palawan to the island of Cebu (we are finally in an archipelago). Upon arrival in Cebu, we went straight to the South Bus Terminal, where we...

Arrive

The flight - the first impression

Malapascua - Welcome to Paradise

The journey to the island of Malapascua located at the northern end of Cebu was, as usually in the Philippines, longer than expected. In pitch-black "night" (around 7:00 PM...

Day 68 to 71 - Cebu is unfortunately cancelled

From Puerto Princesa we flew with Cebu Pacific to the second largest city in the Philippines, Cebu City, on the island of Cebu. From there, the plan was to explore the island...

09.04-10.04 Playing music in Cebu 🇵🇭 or maybe Japan 🇯🇵 ?-)

Sometimes the unexpected happens: like this totally crazy evening in a Japanese guesthouse, surrounded by Japanese people and a Korean, lots of Soju and music