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Facts About The Sinulog Festival:

The Sinulog Festival is held every year on the Third Sunday of January in Cebu City. The Festival is organized by the groups of people wearing colorful dresses and performing the dance in Sinulog through the different streets of Cebu City.
People Wearing Colorful Dresses to Celebrate Sinulog Festival


The first parade was organized in 1980. The parade is very old and Cultural. This Culture is held in the Philippines.
Children Celebrating Sinulog Festival
On the third Sunday in January, it was the grand Sinulog of Cebu, which was also translated as the Sinnu Festival. When I bought the house from that year, the sales lady said the annual Sinulog festival, and the parade was from the building. The road under it passes.

A week ago, Cebu City hangs up about the Sinulog propaganda everywhere. The best-selling T-shirts in the mall are printed with the words Sinulog. Everyone also buys beautiful feather hats as decorations.

Sinulog Festival


The Sinulog Festival is a seasonal cultural and spiritual ceremony, held in Cebu City on the third Sunday of January, the most important festival of the Catholic celebrations in the Philippines.

Known as the most popular festival in the Philippines, this festival attracts 10 to 2 million people from all over the Philippines to participate in the festival every year. In addition to religious celebrations, Sinulog is also famous for street parties, which usually take place during festivals. The first night and the evening of the holiday day.

Sinulog Festival

About 5 days in advance, on the main road of Sinulog, the flag was pulled across the street. The buntings came from various sponsoring companies, such as SMART, GLOBE, SUN, PLDT and so on.

 "Let Every Man Be Respected as an individual and no man Idolized." (Einstein Quotes)

Yesterday afternoon, the main road began to martial law, and then began the exercise, to cooperate with the exercise, actually stopped all the company's mobile phone signal, said to be for security assurance, from 1 pm until 7:30 pm, the phone has no signal!
Last night, SM CITY put up the fireworks, very beautiful, just like the night before.
Sinulog Festival

I went to bed this morning, and Teng Ge shouted out the window, Helicopter, helicopter, I saw that a helicopter flew lower than our floor and hovered around, then we hurry to the side near the street. I saw that the parade had begun in the downstairs.


Various floats and performance teams came one after another. There were company advertisements, there were singers, TV hosts, and statues of Santa Claus, dressed in costumes. The tourists stood on the side of the road and listened to the cheers of everyone next to them. We are also infected by this atmosphere.
Sinulog Festival

Unexpectedly, it was still behind. After the afternoon floats and performances, everyone joined the parade. I have never seen so many people in Cebu. Everyone walked and smeared the paint on themselves and the people around them. The atmosphere was very lively, with cheers and shouts. We once thought that there was a "riot", some nervous, in fact, everything is normal!! There are pictures with truths.

Sinulog Festival Dance:



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