Sandurot Festival
Dumaguete's own festival. Sandurot means welcome, and the re-enactment on the boulevard tells how the city took in the peoples who landed here.
Dumaguete's own festival. Sandurot means welcome, and the re-enactment on the boulevard tells how the city took in the peoples who landed here.
A street dancing festival held every 3 to 5 November, and one of the most popular in the region. The dancers paint flowers on their faces, arms, bodies and legs, in the pintados tradition, to show gratitude to people and to their surroundings. The name joins two Spanish …
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The province's founding anniversary, kept for the whole month: a trade fair of Benguet produce, rituals, and the grand cañao on 23 November, the day Benguet was founded in 1900.
Baguio is a UNESCO Creative City for crafts and folk art. Ibagiw fills November with craft markets, workshops and shows from the city's weavers, carvers and painters.