Philippines. I am already in hot and dusty Cebu City. Ladies are charming here…
Do you remember my sailing through the Magellan’s Strait from Porvenir to Punta Arenas on the old ferry boat “Malinka”?
Today I visited another Magellan’s place: Mactan Island where, during the fight with the local chief Lapu Lapu he was wounded to death by spear and poisoned arrow. Now there is obelisk on this place and the statue of the chief Lapu Lapu. Lapu Lapu (the capital city of the Mactan island has his name now) is a national hero, Ferdinand Magellan is described as invader.
For us he was one of the greatest explorers… I think that for the serious traveler the monument on Mactan Island is one of this important “cult” places like Ujiji in Africa where Stanley found Livingstone or the grave of Ernest Shackelton on South Georgia. This a place to be…
