Pit Señor - Annual Celebration "Sinulog Festival" in Cebu City

Stage presentation about Sinulog Festival

The Sinulog festival is one of the biggest and most colorful festivals in the Philippines with a very rich and vibrant history. The main festival is held every third Sunday of January in Cebu City in honor of the Santo Niño (Holy Child), or the child Jesus, who used to be the patron saint of  Cebu (since in the Catholic faith Jesus is not a saint, but God,so the patron saint is changed to Our Lady of Guadalupe). It is basically a dance ritual which reminds the Filipino people’s pagan past and their acceptance of the Catholic Christianity.

This festival shows some the country’s most colorful displays of pomp and pageantry: participants garbed in bright-colored costumes dance to the rhythm of drums, trumpets, and native gongs. The streets and every corners are usually lined with vendors and pedestrians all wanting to witness the street-dancing. Smaller versions of the festival are also held in different parts of the province, also to celebrate and honor the Santo Niño. Another event is the Sinulog sa Kabataan, which will be done by the youths of Cebu one week before the Festival itself, the Grand Parade.

Orchid Gallery in Moalboal, Cebu

This is the biggest gallery in the whole Philippines filled with different orchids. This is the best place to relax and unwind from the crowded streets in the city. This is located in Moalboal. This is actually an orchid farm where everyone can enjoy knowing each variety of Orchids both imported and local. They also have a swimming pool which guests can swim in and enjoy their time with their family. The admission fee to this farm is just twenty pesos and the use of the pool is just fifty pesos. 

After the relaxation in Orchid Gallery, you can enjoy the popular beaches around the town. These beaches around here are said to be the best for scuba diving in the world and most of all is strolling the white sandy coastline of Basdaku Beach, Saavedra.

Basdaku Beach, Copyright - PhilsGreat.com

Storm Coming - The Poem (along our Coastal Area of Moalboal)

The storm is coming

We must find shelter

We must not let this storm

Caught us in turn

First, it is so calm

But the clouds getting darker

The water is so clear

The water is so calm

Travel around Philippine Islands, Bohol and Moalboal

The beach in Bohol Island

If we are asked why people like to travel, I think people travel to the other places to have relaxation and meet new friends.

But then what is travel?The first thing comes in our mind is to go from one place to another. And also traveling is common way to relax of the people these days. 

For example you want to go Manila, Philippines in which you want to see many wonderful places to visit and taking the picture is a must for posting in Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Traveling also feels us the enjoyable feelings but there is also sadness because other people who prefer to travel alone in which they cannot afford the ticket or lack of budget.

When I was a child, I wish to travel all around of the Philippines because I want to see the world wonderfully; I want to see anything that I’ve never seen before.

The first came to my mind was I like to travel to Bohol even though it was hot there and sunny season.

Badian, Cebu - Banig Festival 2011

Banig Festival at Badian, Cebu

Badianganons celebrated the Banig  festival ’11, its annual fiesta in honor of Saint James the Apostle. The said event with th theme “Halad-Pasalamat sa Sayaw Ipamulong “ held at Badian National High School oval last July 23,2011. (Thanksgiving Offerings ,Through Dance Interpretation)

            The festival’s name was taken from the Visayan term “Banig” (native mat) which best describe the town’s means of living.

            All contingents, municipal and barangay officials joined the grand parade assembled in front of the District Hospital at 1 p.m.  which marked the beginning of the celebration, arrived at the venue proper  at 2:30 p.m.

Basdako Moalboal Beach with local people - also called The White Beach

Philippines is gifted with amazing scenery of nature's best. The beach in the Philippines is one. The photos below described the local people of the town in their outing. This beach in Basdako Moalboal Cebu isone of the most popular beach in the world with its neighboring beach, The Panagsama Beach which has many diving shops, world's best for underwater paradise or the most number of coral and underwater bio-diversity.

A small boat for a fisherman at a distant is paddling under the sunset. A nice place to rest and feel the breeze. 

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You can start with a game of "bury in the sand" and this is fun actually. Expert says it can enhance blood circulation.

Señor Santo Niño (Holy Child) - Refuge of the Filipino Christian Family! Festival in Cebu City

The transition of the image of Sr. Sto. Niño for centuries

Pit Señor! Shouted by Filipinos in Visayas region in Cebu province in the Philippines in celebration of Sinulog Festival.

So what is Sinulog Festival?

We know that the first man who discovered that the world is round is Ferdinand Magellan from Spain. When he landed in the Philippines, Visayas Region, he specifically got in Cebu area.

Way back March 16, 1521, Magellan brought Christianity in Asia. The first Christian nation in Asia is the Philippines and we Cebuanos in Visayas area are very proud because our place was chosen as the starting point for Christianity.

Magellan at that time brought a small image of The Holy Child or in Spanish "Señor Sto. Niño" or "Sto. Niño" and was given to the Queen of Cebu that time, Queen Juana, which is still existing these days and lots and lots of pilgrims from all over the Philippines and around the world gather today, Jan. 15 to celebrate the feast day of Sto. Niño.

The Image of Sto. Niño de Cebu

During that time, native Cebuanos celebrated a mass with the Spanish people and celebrate native dances to honor the Holy Child. There goes the SINULOG FESTIVAL.

Many tourists are attracted to the dances and parades attended by many groups of contenders in different categories from all over Philippines.

As a Cebuano, I am very happy to celebrate the Little Jesus' feast day. The Vatican has been so glad in the strong devotion of Filipinos to the Catholic Religion in the Philippines in spite of the poverty faced.

I still remember when my grandmother told me that long time ago this little icon of Child Jesus was lost, burned in WW1 and WW2, misplaced and yet found and still intact. This is a miraculous image. Before, this image can be touched and kissed but now it is placed in a glass case to prevent damage since the image is very very old, about 500 years old.

So many people everyday from every corners of the earth are visiting the image of the Holy Child and many prayers have been answered from the Sto. Nino, ops, I forgot the ñ, the Sto. Niño.