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Fantasy World – The “abandoned” theme park in Lemery

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The theme park, built in 2001, it was once owned by a businessman who was forced to leave it unfinished due to financial problems. Everything now lays half finished atop a little hill. Fantasy World was designed to be the grandest theme park in the country, but since its construction was never finished, everything remained just a […]

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Τhe end of Magellan in Mactan

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On 16 March 1521, Magellan sighted the islands of Philippines becoming the first European to reach the archipelago. Magellan landed on the island of Homonhon and befriended the chieftains of Limasawa. They then introduced Magellan to Rajah Humabon, the Rajah of Cebu, who was promptly baptized into Catholicism along with his wife and his subjects. Humabon acquired […]