A COLORFUL FESTIVAL

People often interpret festival as government’s way of promoting tourism. Partly yes, but behind this tourism promotion, lies the talent, hardwork and the creativity of it’s people showcasing to the whole world the rich history a place can have. Our country has a lot of this to offer. We have the talents, hardwork, creativity and most of all we have a rich history of our beginning. Sinulog, a colorful festival presenting how the Spaniards brought Christianity to Cebu is an example of this. So as the Ati- atihan in Kalibu, Aklan, the Kadayawan festival in Davao, and the Dinagat festival in Cordova, Cebu. All of these festivals show the diversity of talents of the Filipino people offering their thanks to their patrons but there’s this one place in Cebu that has a different purpose for having their festival. Mandaue City, the “Emerging Convention City in Asia” celebrates a festival that offers a different purpose.

Mandauehanons take pride in presenting to the whole world their Mantawi Festival. This is celebrated annually not only by the Mandauehanons but also of the rest of the world. People from different places find their way to Cebu to join the festive mood of Mandaue during the festival. It showcases not only the creativity of the mandauehanons but also the beauty and intelligence mandauehanon ladies possess’ through Ms. Mandaue.