The main event of the Sinulog Festival in Cebu City is the Grand Parade on January 15, which seems to have gone off without a hitch as the rain stopped until the day before. According to the people of Cebu, it never rains on the day of Sinulog.
By the way, the Sinulog Festival does not end with the Grand Parade, but continues a week later until the Sinulog Festival in Carmen, north of Cebu City, on the fourth Sunday of the month.
In this year's 50th Sinulog sa Carmen, teams from the municipalities of Cebu Island danced on a fairly large stage and competed for superiority.
The competition included the free category, the music category, and the Sinulog music-based musical category, with Toledo City winning the top prize in the free category and the music category. Toledo's received 2.6 million pesos, more than the second-place finisher, Calcar's 2 million pesos.
I saw the dance published on Facebook by the City of Toledo, and it was quite a brave dance with a high level of perfection.
The Sinulog Festival gives an image of beautiful women dancing gracefully with Santo Niño dolls in their hands, but I was a bit surprised to see men dancing dynamically in the Toledo City dance.
I wonder what kind of dance they will show us next year
