Davao City Tour

 So what to do in Davao.. Day 1 was supposed to be travelling to Ma-a to visit Eden Nature Park. Woke up a bit early and decided to eat at Taps for our first breakfast in downtown Davao. Found one branch of Taps in Bolton Street. Good thing this branch is near our hotel (located along C.M. Recto). After our breakfast, my navigator decided to walk around. This “walk around” turned into our actual day 1 activity.

Osmena?? not..

Thanks to technology and my techie navigator, he was able to navigate his way “accidentally” to sort of a plaza which I initially thought to be Osmeña Park (but it’s not). We did find San Pedro Cathedral. I found the shape of this cathedral rather odd at first. After all it’s not your usual Roman Catholic architecture. But that made sense after our visit to Museo Dabawenyo.

Davao Museum

On the way to the museum, we got to visit (or see from the outside) the Sangguniang Lungsod ng Davao and the Peace Monument (the monument which symbolizes peace between Christians, Muslims and Lumad), cause they were both in front of the Cathedral. Had a taste of fruit shake davao style while waiting for the museum to open.



The visit to Museo Dabawenyo gave us an overview of Davao plus made sense as to why and what San Pedro Cathedral’s architecture is along with the history of Davao, its people. I especially liked the background about the Lumads. Our jolly museum guide gave us a colorful and entertaining educational experience which more overly elevated my respect for Dabawenyos.
After our Museum tour, my navi brought us both to see Davao City Hall and of course Rizal Park. It was still early but we opted to have an early lunch at Kuya Ed’s. Walked some more until we got back to our hotel to rest. After all, it was a long breakfast (and I haven’t taken a shower yet). As we were walking back, we stumbled upon a vendor selling durian and langka flavored bibingka…. and, you just have to give it a try.

unusually flavored bibingka

First half of day1 turned up ok. It was time to rest as all the walking around did burn up considerable amount of calories (which I love!!!!) plus.. I gotta take a bath~~~~