Thursday, March 05, 2009

magellan's cross

hi all, back from vacation at cebu, sorry for not posting earlier, but let me share with you this photo of the historic magellan's cross. this cross is iconic and you can see this in lots of postcards and history books of the philippines, coz technically this is were the history of the philippiens actually started. you all know that the philippines has been colonized by the spaniards for more than 300 years and this Magellan's Cross is a Christian cross planted by Portuguese and Spanish explorers as ordered by Ferdinand Magellan upon arriving in Cebu in the Philippines on April 21, 1521. for more photos of my cebu trip please click here.

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