Cebu — Sights
Resort sea on Mactan, roast pig in the city.
- Magellan's Cross & Basilica del Santo Niño — The 1521 cross and the country's oldest holy image, one block apart
- Fort San Pedro — A small triangular Spanish fort, the oldest of its kind here
- Yap-Sandiego Ancestral House — A 300-year-old coral-stone house with creaky floors and old furniture
- Carbon Market — Mangoes at ₱80 a kilo in Cebu's biggest, oldest market
- Sugbo Mercado night food market — Skewers from ₱25 at the open-air market where Cebu eats dinner
- Cebu Taoist Temple — A dragon-roofed hilltop temple; climb 81 steps for the city view
- Temple of Leah — A Greek-style temple built for a late wife, with the city between the columns
- Sirao Flower Garden — Hilltop flower beds, windmills and a giant golden hand
- Tops Lookout — Cebu's go-to night view, with the city and Mactan lit up below
- Mactan Shrine — The statue of Lapulapu, who beat Magellan, plus a souvenir market
- Nalusuan & Hilutungan island hopping — A stilted island and a coral sanctuary, the classic first day at sea
- Oslob whale sharks — Swim with whale sharks lured by feeding, and know the ethics debate first
- Kawasan Falls canyoneering — Half a day hiking, swimming and jumping down a turquoise canyon
- Moalboal sardine run & turtle snorkelling — Swim a few metres off the beach into a wall of sardines
- Bohol day trip: Chocolate Hills & tarsiers — Over a thousand kiss-shaped hills and fist-sized tarsiers
- Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral — A few steps from the Basilica, a calm stop in the old centre
- Casa Gorordo Museum — A wealthy 1850s Cebuano home, left as it was lived in
- Heritage of Cebu Monument — Cebu's history told scene by scene in one giant sculpture
- Museo Sugbo — Cebu history and culture inside a former jail
- Cebu Provincial Capitol — Neoclassical hall at the head of Osmeña Boulevard
- Colon Street heritage walk — Downtown strip billed as the oldest road in the country
- Simala Shrine — Castle-like pilgrimage church for a southern day trip
- Magellan Monument, Punta Engaño — Stone obelisk where Magellan is said to have fallen
- Cebu Yacht Club — Sunset and the Cebu skyline past the marina
- Cebu Ocean Park — Big city aquarium with tunnels and shows