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There's
a lot to see in Negros Oriental
SINULOG DE
JIMALALUD- Jimalalud, on or about January 13 -- street dancing
and pageants to eliven fiesta.
TAWO-TAWO FESTIVAL. Bayawan City , December 22 -- street dancing
with scarecrow higantes the day before fiesta celebrates the guardins
of the city's crops.
PASAYAW FESTIVAL -- Canlaon City , March 19 -- honors patron St.
Joseph with street dancing giving thanks for the harvest that
makes the city the Province's rice and vegetable bowl.
LENTEN RITES. Province-wide, movable -- traditional church rites,
Via Crucis, Hatud procession of the Dead Christ on God Friday,
sugat dawn procession on Holy Saturday.
LIBOD SAYAW SA BINDOY. Street dancing based on Philippine filk
dances during April 5 fiesta.
YAG-YAG FESTIVAL. CANGMATING, Sibulan - street dancing and field
presentations, colorful depictions of the barangay's coastal marine
resources, last Sunday of April.
SANTACRUZAN and MAYFLOWER FESTIVAL. Province-wide throughout May.
Dumaguete -- last week of May; Ayungon- 3rd week.
SAKUBHAN FESTIVAL. Santa catalina, April 22 celebrates the abundance
of the town's sugar cane harvest.
AYUQUITAN FESTIVAL. San Jose , May 7 -- street dancing retells
the origins of the town's former place name derived from INUKITAN,
brid pickings.
GAPNOD FESTIVAL. Sibulan, June 12 decorated and lighted boats
carry venerated images and devotees in a fluvial processin along
the town's coastal waters.
BUDYAS FESTIVAL. Amlan, June 29, old ritual invokes good fortune
on fisherman, images of patron St. Peter and St. Paul are ferried
by decorated sea crafts between the two chapels of Tandayag Amlan.
SINULOG DE TANJAY. Tanjay, third week of July choreographed procession
recounts ancient Monochristian conflict and the intercession of
patron Senior Santiago.
SILIMAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDER'S DAY. Weeklong activities ending August
28 commemorate the establishment, in 1901, of the first Protestan
University in the country.
HUDYAKA FESTIVAL. Bais City , on September 7- Mardi gras and eloborate
floats brings secular revelry to the city fiesta.
BUGLASAN FESTIVAL. The Province fiesta, agritourism fair, festival
of festivals, every October.
ST. PAUL COLLEGE DUMAGUETE FOUNDER'S DAY. Dumaguete City, a weeklong
activity ending October 29 marks the founding in 1904, of the
first St. Paul de Charters institution in the Philippines.
SANDUROT FESTIVAL. Dumaguete City , third week of November --
fiesta events welcome the various cultural strain that enrich
the city's character.
PASKO. Though December -- lighted display and gain Christmas animation
in the parks and nightly activities to celebrate the holiday's
season. Epecially Dumaguete city, Bais city, Bayawan and Tanjay
cities. Mabinay, Sibulan, and Ayungon.
HUGYAWAN DALANSAYAW. First Sunday of December, vigorous and elaborately
choreographed street dancing by central visayas polytechnic college.
PINASKUHAN SIYAWIT AND PAROL FESTIVAL. The annual provincial Christmas
festival, every 2nd weekend of December.
FOUNDATION UNIVERSIRY KASADYAAN FESTIVAL. Dumaguete City --3rd
week of December -- features the Province's oldest and longest
Mardi gras parade.
DOLPHIN AND WHALE WATCHING. Bais city, leisurly cruise travel
of Bais Bay for delightful surprises, best during 2nd and 3rd
quarter of the year.
13th OF EVERY MONTH. Sibulan -- hordes of supplicants travel to
shines of St. Anthony of Padua and the holy child at the parish
church.
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