Carcar: Experiencing Latin America at the Heart of the Philippines

By Ian_delapena

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>>>