ZeniaSinulog 2007
January 24th 2007 07:09
sinulog
The Sinulog Festival is one of the grandest and most colorful festivals in the Philippines. The main festival is held each year on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City in honor of Santo Niño, or the child Jesus. (Santo Niño is the patron saint of the whole province of Cebu.)The festival features some the country’s most colorful displays of pomp and pageantry: participants garbed in bright-colored costumes dance to the rhythm of the drums. Sinulog came from the Cebuano adverb for “like water current movement”. The celebration lasts for nine days. On Sunday, the ninth day, the Sinulog grand parade unfolds. A solemn procession takes place in which hundreds of thousands, all devotees of the patron, participate. Earlier in the day, a grand and colorful water-parade is held from the Mandaue City wharf to Cebu City wharf.
It was a blast, we had so much fun! The dancing rituals found only in the Philippines, The walking drama was so worth it, you wouldn’t actually mind walking miles and miles because aside from fun, vehicles could not pass all due to a mass of people. Walking on the streets of Cebu is your only choice. Sinulog paves way for different artistic temperaments artwork presented through various forms. Some graphics that Indeed Sinulog festival shows Filipino Creativities from the vibrant colored floats down to girls painted toenails. At night, the streets would light up and beer is like anywhere. Pubs would be filled with party people and come next morning - hundreds of Filipinos and tourists would have a throbbing headache. The wonderful things of Sinulog... art and booze...
fireworks display
Child Jesus
street dancing
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