Monday, January 22, 2007
Cebu city in a Jeepney
Cebu city is the second most important metropolitan center in the Philippines, yet its mix of Spanish Roman Catholic and local pagan culture is still eminent in the lives of the locals. Walking around in the shopping malls of Cebu City is just the modern part. A ride in a local jeepney brings you all the more closer to a day in the life of a Cebuano.
Travelling in the local jeepney is a squeeze at 7am in the morning. It is full of people going to school, to work and to the market. The jeepney is the equivalent of Singapore’s buses, only that it is a small jeep and you pay the equivalent of 20cents for an unlimited ride along the route you’re taking. What’s more, you don’t have to pay if you’re sitting on someone’s lap, or hanging by the entrance. There are no designated stops either, the driver stops when someone raps on the roof or calls “lugarlang!” Along the route, there are little kids selling drinks, sweets, towels or little trinkets for tourists. Stalls line the roads, with everything from drinks stalls, barbers, stone masons to barbequed pork called lechon manok.
This my J2 tutorial activity... cool huh...
Cebu city is the second most important metropolitan center in the Philippines, yet its mix of Spanish Roman Catholic and local pagan culture is still eminent in the lives of the locals. Walking around in the shopping malls of Cebu City is just the modern part. A ride in a local jeepney brings you all the more closer to a day in the life of a Cebuano.
Travelling in the local jeepney is a squeeze at 7am in the morning. It is full of people going to school, to work and to the market. The jeepney is the equivalent of Singapore’s buses, only that it is a small jeep and you pay the equivalent of 20cents for an unlimited ride along the route you’re taking. What’s more, you don’t have to pay if you’re sitting on someone’s lap, or hanging by the entrance. There are no designated stops either, the driver stops when someone raps on the roof or calls “lugarlang!” Along the route, there are little kids selling drinks, sweets, towels or little trinkets for tourists. Stalls line the roads, with everything from drinks stalls, barbers, stone masons to barbequed pork called lechon manok.
This my J2 tutorial activity... cool huh...
what we could have been, 1/22/2007 02:59:00 PM.
