| COUNTRY: | PHILIPPINES |
| ISSUE DATE: | 27 April 2016 |
| STAMP SIZE: | 30 x 40 mm |
| STAMP DESIGN: | Rodine Teodoro |
Sinulog Festival which is celebrated every 3rd week of January in Cebu City. This Philippine fiesta in Visayas region celebrates Cebu's patron saint, the Santo Niño (Child Christ). This week-long event is marked by processions, street dancing and parades.
The Panagbenga, a month-long annual flower festival occurring in the summer capital of Baguio. The festival, held during the month of February, was created as a tribute to the city’s flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake. The festival also includes street dancing, presented by dancers clad in flower-inspired costumes, inspired by the Bendian, an Ibaloi dance that came from the Cordillera region. The festival includes floats that are decorated with flowers.
The Pahiyas which is being held every 15th of May. Farm families give thanks to San Isidro Labrador for a good harvest by decorating their houses with brightly colored rice wafers called kiping.
