Cebu City

Late Sunday night we flew to Cebu city, the Philippines' second largest city located in the Visayas. We only stayed one night, (in a wonderful up-scale hotel that included the biggest buffet breakfast I have ever seen. We could have as much bacon, eggs, and sausages as we wanted, and also help ourselves to a wide variety of fresh baked pastries, muffins, and cinnamon roles, or make our own salads, try traditional Filipino breakfast, and top it off with yogurts and fresh tropical fruits). However, it was also on our first morning in the Philippines that the darker side of this county manifest itself in several palpable ways. One look out of our luxurious hotel room that morning displayed the vast chasm between the rich and the poor in this country. And even more disturbingly, we spotted a north American fellow enjoying his buffet breakfast with a young Filipino boy.