The Sinulog Festival features a very distinctive two-step-forward, one-step-back dance and attracts millions with its massive parade. It also involves vibrant street dancing and the famous chant “Viva Pit Señor!
You can feel a beat in your bones before landing in Cebu for the Sinulog Festival. It’s a thump that echoes through the streets, embedded in the chants of “Pit Señor!” (which, if you’re new here, roughly translates to “Praise the Lord and pass the mango float!”) and reverberates in your soul the moment the […]
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The noise hits you before you see anything. The Sinulog Festival of Cebu fills the streets of Cebu City with an estimated two million people on the third Sunday of January, and their collective voice produces a sound you feel in your sternum before you locate its source. The chant is “Pit Señor,” a Cebuano
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