First Things First
This is my Steemit initiative, to travel the Philippines and showcase her beauty to the world through Steemit.com. With your help and support for my posts, I will be able to accomplish this goal in due time.
My trip to Cadiz City, more or less 50km north of Negros Occidental, is all funded by what I earn here in Steemit. All your upvotes made this possible. But I’d like to mention those who have regularly, unselfishly, tirelessly and continuously upvoting my posts and I am ever grateful for their kind soul.
Please accept my thanks, my dear Steemian friends: 
Now, Let's get down to business...
...A festival similar to Sinulog of Cebu, Cadiz City has its own festival to celebrate the Baby Jesus as Sr. Santo Niño. Dinagsa, meaning to rush towards something, celebrated every 4th Sunday of January, is an invitation for everyone to come together and celebrate Sr. Santo Niño who provides, protects, and saves His people.
Celebrations include group or tribe presentations, streetdancing, merry-making, and face smudging using paints of different colors.
Children enjoying face smudging
Paints are water soluble and are sold for a few pesos...
... up to ₱30 or about US$0.60.
Anyone is allowed to smudge other people's faces as a sign of friendship and blessings using colored paints symbolizing a happy, colourful, and blessed life ahead.
Everyone is welcome and everyone is happy here.
Cadiz local government City hall.
And this is me enjoying the celebration.
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Location: Cadiz City, Negros Occidental, Philippines #cadizcity
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