Sangyaw Festival
Tacloban, Leyte
June 27 - 29, 2009
The Sangyaw Festival honors the Santo Nino, the patron saint of Tacloban, with cultural presentations and a mardi gras-type parade. It draws contingents from surrounding areas and distant cities in the country to this beautiful town, located on the shores of Kankabatok Gulf and near the adjoining Leyte Gulf. The town was a favorite haunt of fishermen who used a bamboo contraption, known as "taklub", to catch fish. This resulted in it being called first "Tarakluban", the place where they use the taklub, then eventually "Tacloban".
See the interesting places nearby and take a side trip over the San Juanico Bridge to Samar all the way to Balangiga, where Filipino forces ambushed American troops in September 1901, resulting in several months of bloody reprisals and the taking, as war booty, of the church bells that gave the signal to attack. These are the Balangiga Bells, one of which is in a U.S. army base in South Korea, and two in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The Philippines continues to press for the return of these bells.
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Listen to "Dahil sa Iyo" as only Tacloban can sing it,
with a special guest appearance:
(Click on small black arrow above to hear the song.)
Thrill to the dance of the Tinikling:
Join the Sangyaw Festival Parade:
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