All I Can Handle

I did not expect the BPI Museum in Cebu to be open but the guard said that it was. The BPI Museum in Cebu is not to be missed if ever you find yourself in the downtown area of Cebu. The museum has a comprehensive collection of artifacts related to banking and currency. The Bank of Philippine Islands or BPI predates the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas. Established in 1851 as El Banco Español Filipino, it acted as our first central bank. It is also the first bank in South East Asia. This is an exhibit of how banks used to look like inside as well as the first ATM in the Philippines. The BPI Museum also had an impressive collection of old maps. If you love history, the BPI Museum will give you a chance to appreciate our country's history through a glimpse of the various currencies being circulated at different periods of time. How BPI survived the second world war is also a very interesting story.

I was feeling restless at the start of the year so when I found a cheap flight to Cebu, I immediately booked one for myself even if I had no concrete plans on what exactly to do in Cebu. Since I did not do any research and I did not know anything about Cebu, I was surprised to learn that the beaches and other tourist attractions I commonly hear of in vlogs were pretty far away from the downtown area.  My friend said that the beaches near the downtown area were dirty. Where I grew up, you can stay in a downtown hotel and still get to some rocky but clean beaches just by riding a jeepney.  If it is your first time travelling to Cebu, it's best to limit your stay in the downtown area to just one or two days. Tourist attractions like Moalboal and Oslob will require you to stay at a hotel in those locations.  Since we often hear that Cebu is an island, we tend to have a false impression that it is small. That was one of the things that shocked me when I arrived here. You will ...