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Carcar: Experiencing Latin America at the Heart of the Philippines

By Ian_delapena
Carcar: Experiencing Latin America at the Heart of the Philippines
The challenge for my self to explore the southern island of Cebu takes me to my second destination, the city of Carcar.On this leg of my trip, I have already felt the challenge of having language barriers when I tried to ask for what bus to take so I could get to Carcar. I approached a guy on a table giving out tickets and asked what bus to take. He answered back in cebuano (the local dialect) so I thought that he has just mistaken me for a local. So I answered back and told him that I don’t speak cebuano, but he still spoke to me in his dialect. Having difficulty understanding him I just smiled back at him and asked someone to translate.Read the rest of this article>>>

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