The drive from Cebu City normally takes about 90 minutes: we took 2 hours 15 minutes! The general area was very congested, and traffic at various points slowed to a crawl as thousands of locals were making Sunday visits, alongside the numerous bustling streets of hawker fare and small retail establishments. The weather was also sunny, and while the overall humidity wasn’t as bad as what we experienced in Hanoi, it still made for a visit to the shrine less pleasant than it might have been.<\/p>\n
The shrine itself is quite lovely, and there were throngs of locals making the trip too \u2014 which resulted in long snaking queues to enter the inner sanctums that stretched for a few hundred meters. We were already running fairly late, so decided not to join the queue and were content to gawk at the compound from the outside.<\/p>\n
Pro Tips<\/strong>: ladies especially need to be decently covered. The daughter and wife were wearing shorts or berms respectively, and were told at the entrance to rent a sarong from one of the hawkers plying wares just outside the entrance. Both the son and I were also in berms, but we were waved through.<\/p>\n We stayed just 25 minutes at the shrine, then decided to head back to our waiting vehicle to continue down south to Osme\u00f1a Peak. Continued in the next post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite the fact that we didn’t have that heavy an itinerary on Day 01 \u2014 we were just arriving from Singapore, checking into the hotel, then figuring out dinner \u2014 all of us were so doggoned tired after the first<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/blog-2024-cebu-day-02-20240609_134201.jpg\")
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