The Sinulog-Santo Niño Festival is an annual

cultural and religious festival held on the third

Sunday of January in Cebu City and is the
centre of the Santo Niño Catholic Christian
celebrations in the Philippines.
Sinulog is the ritual prayer-dance honoring
Señor Santo Niño or the Child Jesus. An image
of the Child Jesus is said to be the baptismal
gift the Portuguese conquistador Ferdinand
Magellan gave to Hara Amihan (Humanay) of
Zebu (now Cebu) in April 1521.
The word 'Sinulog' was derived from the
Cebuano adverb “sulog” which means “like
water current movement”. It describes the
forward-backward Sinulog dance steps (two
steps forward and one step back).

SINULOG
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CULTURAL FESTIVAL
 Bohol, officially the Province
of Bohol, is an island province
of the Philippines located in
the Central Visayas region,
consisting of the island itself
and 75 minor surrounding islands. Its
capital is Tagbilaran. Bohol is the
tenth largest island of the Philippines.
Bohol is accordingly derived from
the local word bo-ol, a kind of tree
that flourished on the island. Similar
to Nahuatl, the h in the middle was
used to transcribe a glottal stop which
is a common phoneme in the
languages of the Philippines. The
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original name survives as Bool, a
barangay or village in Tagbilaran City
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CULTURAL FESTIVAL
 Best Delicacies to
Festival and Cultural Try When You Visit
Practices in Bohol Bohol
Over the decades that have passed, many
have regarded Bohol as the ‘Fiesta Capital’ of CALAMAY
the Philippines, especially on the month of
May. Call it peculiar, uncanny, surprising, or Calamay is a sticky and
whatever you have in mind, be perplexed upon sweet delicacy. It is made
discovering that the Boholanos’ love for fiesta of glutinous rice, coconut
is eternal. milk, and palm or brown
Best Tourist Spots in sugar. Local guides say
Sandugo Festival that the best calamay in
Bohol This festival commemorates the Bohol can be found in the
Treaty of Friendship between town of Jagna.
Chocolate Hills
Bohol chieftain Datu Sikatuma HALANG-HALANG
and Spanish conquistador Miguel
López de Legazpi which was A meal you wouldn’t shy
sealed with a sandugo ritual or away from is halang-
blood compact, hence the name. halang, or chicken
Beach of Panglao
simmered in rich and
Saulog Festival
creamy coconut milk. The
Hinagdanan Cave dish gets its name from the
Tagbilaran City celebrates the
Visayan word for “spicy.”
feast of Saint Joseph, the city’s
patron saint, every 1st of May. TAGBILARAN
One of the most awaited
occasions in Bohol, the
LONGGANISA
Tarsiers Tagbilaran City Fiesta features a Tagbilaran longganisa is
lot of exciting happenings. marble-sized and very
Sambat Mascara Y Regatta similar in shape and
Heritages in Bohol Festival taste to the sweet
sausage of Cebu.
Every year, on the first Saturday
of December, the town of Loay
celebrates the Sambat Mascara y
Regatta Festival to commemorate
St. Francis Xavier.