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Living In Cebu: This site, Living In Cebu, is here to offer information to its visitors who are interested in coming to Cebu to visit, or possibly doing research to consider living in Cebu or elsewhere in the Philippines.

I am Paul, your host and the owner of this website. I also own a number of other websites online, most offering information about the Philippines. Others promote my favorite part of the Philippines, the Visayas Region.

I have lived in the Visayas Region of the Philippines, minus eleven months, for almost six years, total. Prior to then, I made regular trips to the Philippines, beginning in January, 1992. So, I consider myself somewhat voiced on various topics concerning the Philippines, and Filipinos. Feel free to browse this site and read the information I have here.

If you are new to the Philippines and know little about Filipinos and their culture, you may find this to be a very interesting culture to learn about. I do not consider myself an expert, but I will be happy to teach you anything that I have, regarding this wonderful country and its humble citizens. Drop me a line, via email, and I will reply to you as quickly as possible. Please bear in mind that I receive around 150 emails every day, so it may take a while to get to your email and reply to you.

If, for some reason you haven't received a reply from me within a reasonable amount of time (give me up to one week), please send another email to me from an alternate email address. Once in a while, my SPAM filter will catch and delete genuine emails prior to me being able to view them. I apologize for that in advance. But, I have no other choice than to run strict settings regarding SPAM.

Site Banner: The current image which serves as the banner for this site was taken by my friend James "Jimbo" Nelson, as he stood on the beach of Malapascua Island. His intent that day was to take images of various pump boats anchored off the coast of Malapascua. This photo hit the spot for me, when I was browsing through his files.

This particular photo is of a commercial pump boat, having a capacity of up to 80 passengers, anchored about 150 meters off Malapascua Island. Pump boats similar to this are typically used for daily island cruises, or possibly diving trips around the islands.

Cebu Province can be seen in the background of this particular image, so I found it to be the perfect photo to head this Living In Cebu site.

Malapascua, is a very small island of the north coast of Cebu. It is close, being a 40 minute pump boat ride from Maya, Cebu, yet still fairly remote. Electricity on the island is provided from 4:30PM until about 8:00AM the following morning, daily. The current is supplied by a series of diesel generators on the island. There are a number of resorts, as well as Filipino residential communities on the island as well.