A Visit in the Philippine Taoist Temple

picture with the lion statue? not sure if it is statue

We arrived at Cebu a day before the training, so we were given an opportunity to tour and travel around the city. Marife and I, together with her cousins, decided to visit the Taoist temple.

We went to the Taoist temple by a combination of jeepney and motorcycle ride and a walk. First, we ride a jeepney from Fuente Osmena. Then, we had a motorcycle ride until at the gate of a subsidivision. From it, we walked around 500 meters around from the entrance to the entrance of the Taoist temple.

As we entered there, we still need to walk through the stairs which I think has more or less 100 steps. It’s afternoon when we went there, so we really felt the hotness of the day. However, the view of Cebu City from the top worth the tiring walks.  We took some pictures at different statues in the temple.

view from taoist temple with marife and her aunt

picture with the dragon statue

resting, resting, resting

and some more pictures

picture with the taoist temple

Unfortunately, we were not given the chance to take a picture inside the temple. So what we did, Marife and I entered the temple and tried to do what Taoist did inside their temple.  We lit the incense and tried to ask questions using their wood stones. It’s fun on my part since I got a yes answer on the first try while Marife got a negative answer. This means, I can still ask for more, so I tried another question and sadly the stones answered me no.

After the visit, we went back to the hotel since we found ourselves tired at that day. Maybe because we still need to walk from temple until the entrance of the subdivision before we get a ride.