Festivals and Events
Be a part of the joyous revelries in the tropical archipelago of the Philippines.  Add another memorable day in your life as you celebrate with the Filipinos’ magnificent festivals and events!

Sinulog
It is one of the most celebrated, grandest, colorful and magnificent festivals in the country drawing millions of tourists worldwide.  The festival runs for nine days ending on the ninth day featuring spectacular street parades with participants from different provinces in and outside Cebu wearing multi-colored costumes, giant puppets and various beautiful floats.  Sinulog is annually held on the third Sunday of January in honor of the holy child, Sr. Santo Niño, who is also the patron saint of the Queen City of the South.  Every year, Sinulog has been a tourist attraction and become the most anticipated event among Cebuanos and other visitors across the world that come to visit the city and witness one marvelous event.  Aside from the enthusiastic street dancing, one of the highlights during Sinulog festival is the awe-inspiring fireworks display illuminating the dark skies above with its colorful and awesome lights.
 
Pahiyas Festival
A famous and colorful festival celebrated in honor of San Isidro Labrador, the patron saint of the farmers.  Every year it draws thousands of local and foreign tourists from different corners of the world.  Houses along the streets of Lucban are beautifully festooned with agricultural harvest and the infamous “kiping”, a tasty wafer that is made of grounded rice flour, shaped into banana leaves and colored radiantly with bright colors like red, fuchsia and green.  Pahiyas Festival is touted as one of the must see fiestas in the Philippines held every 15th of May.  Another highlight of Pahiyas Festival is the bazaars, which houses various Lucban products including their delectable and popular longganisa, handmade crafts like straw hats, bags and many more. 

Masskara Festival
Every October the city of Bacolod celebrates one of the gaiety and awesome festivals in the Philippines, the Masskara Festival.  The revelry is symbolized with a smiling mask, which illustrates a happy spirit despite sadness and trials.  During this magnificent festival plethora of food fairs, mask making contests, windsurfing regatta, concerts, exhibits, beauty pageants, drinking and eating competitions happen. Adding attraction to the Masskara Festival is the street dancing where participants wear spectacular masks elegantly designed to amaze every spectator.  This famous tourist attraction in the country has been earning raves from various travelers across the world.  To make your experience livelier and memorable, join the other revelers donning sophisticated mask and costumes and grooving to Latin rhythms in a Rio de Janeiro style. 

Tuna Festival
One of the most interesting festivals in the country taking place in the beautiful city of General Santos that showcases awe-inspiring presentations of tuna from culinary competitions, tuna float parade to street dancing.  This celebration is normally opened with a grand parade wherein participants energetically perform to the beat of the music and spectacular floats of enormous replicas of tuna and other sea creatures are paraded on the street.  The Tuna Festival is something you should not miss, as there are plethora of wonderful activities designed to make everyone find pleasure participating the said revelry. 

Panagbenga Festival
A very colorful and breathtaking event occurring in Baguio every February.  This month-long flower festival displays numerous and beautiful floats elegantly decorated with flowers.  Street dancing adds highlight to this wonderful revelry.  Performers are clad in flower inspired outfit that are painstakingly made to give a sophisticated look.  There are loads of excitement and fun in store for each tourist during Panagbenga Festival.  This is also a perfect time where you can smell fragrant flowers floating in the air across the different corners of the region.  One should participate this sweet smelling event in Baguio, the summer capital of the Philippines.

Kadayawan Festival
This celebration of good harvest serves as a thanksgiving to nature for a bountiful harvest.  Kadayawan Festival is a weeklong celebration happening every 3rd week of August.  During this merry event, streets are filled with amazing floats of fresh flowers, fruits and street dancing, in which participants are clad with multihued outfits.  Furthermore, there are also native and power boat races happening during Kadayawan Festival.  Thousands of travelers flee to Davao to witness this one of a kind event.  The festival is not complete without the Miss Kadayawan beauty contest, horse fight and exhibits of the region’s local tourism products and services.

Pintados Festival
It is a lively event that runs for month wherein visitors will behold amazing sights and scenes of street dancing and people with body paints from head to toe in which the designs usually resembles of tattooed warriors from the past.  Pintados festival is also a way of depicting and sharing to all people from different races its unique history happened long time ago.  This fantastic celebration is held every 29th of June in the peaceful region of Leyte.  To add vibrancy to the festival, streets are filled with wide array of dancers whose bodies are painted with multicolored and dazzling paints.  It may appear outrageous but once you get used to it, you will be entice to have a body paint as well.

Dinagyang Festival
Held on the fourth Sunday of January, Dinagyang Festival is a religious and cultural festival in the city of Ilo-ilo.  It is one of the most popular festivals in the country right after the well-known Sinulog in the Queen City of the South, Cebu and the crowd gathering Ati-Atihan in Aklan.  It is celebrated in honor of the miraculous child, Sr. Santo Niño and the arrival of Malay settlers in Panay.  Hundreds of thousands tourists from different parts of the globe come to visit Ilo-ilo and be a part of Dinagyang Festival.  This vibrant revelry was voted as the Best Tourism Event for three consecutive years from 2006-2008 by the Association of Tourism Officers in the Philippines.  Dinagyang Festiva, according to wikipedia.com, is dubbed as the first festival across the world to get support of the United Nations for the promotion of the Millennium Development Goals.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinagyang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinulog_festival