Derived from the Visayan term for the cordial custom of offering and enjoying hospitability, Sandurot celebrates the captivating quality of Dumaguete. The festival is an elaborate welcome for the different cultures drawn to the shores of the city. It begins on the Dumaguete beachfront with contingents representing the various cultural strains arriving in decorated seacraft.
A beachfront ceremony welcomes decorated seacraft from which disembark costumed contingents representing these migrations. Streetdancing follows, concluding with a showdown, with the contingents in their respective regional or national costumes choreographed accordingly.
Now a symbolic gesture of inviting the world to the city of gentle people. Performed close to fiesta day November 25..
