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Cebu

Cebu is the Philippines with the volume turned up — jeepneys roaring past Spanish colonial churches, lechon smoke curling over sidewalk stalls, ferries idling toward islands so blue they look retouched. It's a city that works hard by day and eats loud by night, and it never once apologizes for either.