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CEBU CITY: About 21 towns in southern Cebu had the
chance to showcase their unique culture and delicacies to local and
foreign tourists as the 7th leg of the Suroy-Suroy sa Sugbo started
on Wednesday. “Suroy” means to go on a tour or to go sightseeing
in Cebuano dialect.
Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia of Cebu
accompanied over 100 foreign and local tourists around Cebu’s
southern towns.
Eight delegates from Cebu’s
sister province, Hainan, China will be among the foreign tourists
joining the Cebu tour.
The Suroy-Suroy program, which
started in 2005, aims to showcase the island of Cebu by bringing
tourists to every town and showing them the area’s unique culture
and food.
The price in this leg’s
three-day tour ranges from P3,100 to P8,075.
Tita Zosa, Cebu provincial
tourism officer, said this year’s tour participants would be 70
percent to 80 percent balikbayan and foreigners.
She said compared to last
year’s Suroy-Suroy, this year’s tour has the most number of
towns in the itinerary.
The tour kicked off in Talisay
City and then proceeded to Minglanilla, Naga, San Fernando, Sibonga,
Argao, Alcoy and Boljoon, where the group were brought to see the
famous Boljoon Church.
On its second day, the tour takes
the group visiting a park in Ginatilan in the morning, and then to
the Kawasan Falls in Badian in the afternoon. Suroy-Suroy tourists
will also visit the towns of Dalaguete, Santander, Samboan,
Malabuyoc and Alegria.
On the last day of the tour, the
guests will breakfast at the orchid farm in Moalboal then on to
Alcantara, Dumanjug, Barili and Carcar before heading back to Cebu
City.
Capitol officials hope to draw
more tourists and visitors in the countryside through the
Suroy-Suroy program by giving them a peek of what the towns have to
offer.
--PNA
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