by Clark | Jun 14, 2022 | Negros Oriental, Negros Oriental Arts & Culture
Yagyag is the vernacular for spawning, to lay eggs or spread, propagate and grow. The process refers in particular to the crabs and other marine creatures, which gather during the months of October to December in Sapa, one of the springs, found in Barangay Cangmating...
by Clark | Jun 14, 2022 | Negros Oriental, Negros Oriental Arts & Culture
Derived from the Visayan term for the cordial custom of offering and enjoying hospitality, Sandurot celebrates the captivating quality of Dumaguete. The festival is an elaborate welcome for the different cultures drawn to the shores of the city. The Sandurot Festival...
by Clark | Jun 14, 2022 | Negros Oriental, Negros Oriental Arts & Culture
Canlaon City’s festival, Pasayaw, derives from pasalamat diha sa mga sayaw (thanksgiving through dance). It blends legendary, historical, and socio-cultural materials with religious traditions of the early inhabitants of this mountain city. Past Pasayaw Festivals used...
by Clark | Jun 14, 2022 | Negros Oriental, Negros Oriental Arts & Culture
The Buglasan Festival is Negros Oriental’s movable provincial fiesta, participated in by the Province’s six component cities and 19 municipalities. “Buglasan” is derived from buglas, the tall, napier-like reeds which once covered the entire island of Negros. Natives...
by Clark | Jun 13, 2022 | Negros Oriental, Negros Oriental Attractions
Also called Punta Tambungon by the locals, with rocks and large corals used as navigation landmarks. The biggest shipment of WWII ammunition for the Negros guerilla movement is said to have been unloaded here, now the favored dive site of many scuba enthusiasts.
