Cebu Phillipines a Very Nice and Beautiful City

A traveler visiting Cebu City for the first time may well be turned off by some of the city sites compared to Manila Phillipines. The city has several world class resorts, hotels, beaches and dive sites which make it an ideal place of Phillipines travel. It also has some areas of the world's most devastating poverty. Cebu City is the capital city of the Cebu Province and it is the second largest city following Manila Phillipines. I always feel at home in the city and lived in the city before building my home in the rural Cebu Province of Camotes Islands. Cebu City is a mix of the old and new, rich and poor, good and bad and pretty and ugly. There is also the mix of clean and really dirty or filthy. The rule for anyone going to Cebu for the first time is to not make a snap judgment but do enjoy the hidden beauty that is Phillipines travel.
Although there were many other foreigners enjoying Phillipines travel in the mall many Filipinos walking by asked where I was from and in general everyone was very friendly to me just like in Manila Phillipines. While at the mall I bought a few souvenir type things to take home and I just did a lot of window shopping. I was happy to see the prices of most things in the stores were very cheap compared to the US. At that time one US dollar bought 55.00 pesos.
Today it's one dollar to about 41.00 Pesos. Still a good deal no matter if you are in Cebu or Manila, but today I'm careful in my spending. By the middle of the afternoon I was ready for some sleep after my long flight to Cebu Phillipines. I went home and I retired to my hotel room which reminded me of Manila Phillipines.