Cebu's Sinulog 2014

The city of Cebu is celebrating the biggest, grandest and probably the oldest festival in the city, the Sinulog Festival every second week of January. Cebu is famous of having beautiful beaches, delicious lechon, yummy otap and dried fish called danggit. They also have these famous landmarks such as the Magellan's Cross, next to that is the famous Basilica del Santo Niño, Cebu Taoist Temple and more. This year (2014), was my first time witnessing and celebrating Sinulog together with all the Cebuano's, non Cebuano's and lots and lots of foreigners from around the globe. When you go out of the house you will really feel the spirit of Sinulog; the malls,restaurants, hotels and shops on the streets, they all have these Sinulog decorations and they are playing Sinulog music. The malls are full of people buying Sinulog stuffs, such as shirts, coffee mugs, caps, flip flops with Sinulog prints..  It is indeed the biggest festival in Cebu. So, here are some of the pictures I took during the Sinulog Festival.

Before going to Fuente Osmiña street where the parade of celebrities, street dancing and floats is happening, we had our lunch at one of Jollibee's store in Ayala Mall. This is my sister (the shortest one) and her girlfriends posing for a picture outside the Jollibee store. 

Still inside the Ayala Mall, on our way out I've seen this booth selling Sinulog shirts. There are lots of them around the mall.

 This is a float with a Sto. Niño in front of it. The Santo Niño de Cebú (Spanish: Holy Child of Cebu) is a celebrated Roman Catholic religious vested statue of the Child Jesus venerated by many Filipino Catholics who believe it to be miraculous. Claiming to be the oldest religious image in the Philippines, the statue was originally given in 1521 as a baptismal gift by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan via Antonio Pigafetta, who physically handed it to Lady Humamay, the principal wife of Rajah Humabon, along with a statue of the Our Lady of Guidance and a Cross. Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Niño_de_Cebú

 This is a sea of people waiting to see different floats, sinulog dancers and parade of Philippine celebrities. 

Some of the floats I'm able to took photos. Pardon for the pictures are not that good because it's too crowded, you can't get near them. 

This is a float from Bohol with their Kings waiving their hands and the Queens carrying a Sto. Niño. 

This is a float of Julie's Bakeshop. Julie's Bakeshop is a Philippine's largest bakeshop chain. 

These are the floats of different celebrities of the Philippines. Above in red are the stars of the hit tv series "Please Be Careful With My Heart", Richard Yap and Jodi Sta. Maria. On their left side are Maja Salvador and John Lloyd Cruz. My camera didn't reach them because of the crowd. Down below in white shirt is Ramon Bautista and in black is Jc de Vera. Nikki Valdez, Kaye Abad, and Jed Madela are also there and many more. I wasn't able to take pictures of them. :(

Getting tired of the very crowded Fuente Osmiña, we decided to go back to Ayala Mall. We walked our way from there to here because it's too hard to get a ride. Another sea of people hanging around the mall.  Some are having early dinner, some are drinking beers and most of them just staying there and getting some rest  while waiting for the fireworks, including us. After seeing the fireworks, we all decided to go home. It's really really hard to get a ride home so we walked our way from Ayala Mall to Banilad. Uggghhh, my feet was so tired. That was a very long walk but it's all worth it. It was really fun. :) 

Pardon for my English writing. It's not that good but I tried my best. I hope you find this post somewhat useful or interesting. Thanks for reading. :)