Sinulog Festival
Cebu City, Philippines
The Sinulog Festival is an annual cultural and religious festival held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City, and is the center of Santo Nino Catholic celebrations in the Philippines. One of the main highlights of the festival is the grand street parade which lasts for 9 to 12 hours with participants coming from the different towns and cities of Cebu and from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao across the Philippines. The sinulog dance contingents are dressed in bright coloured costumes dancing gracefully to the rhythm of drums, trumpets and native gongs.
Today is the start of the Fluvial procession of the miraculus image of Santo Nino and tomorrow will be the Grand Festival for this year's Sinulog Festival 2016 (17 January 2016).
Happy Sinulog Day!
This photo was taken last year, 2015 during the Aliwan Fiesta Streetdance competion in Manila, Philippines.
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