A day-long festival featuring the yearly city fiesta festivity. The fundamental aspect is the Bonok-
bonok, an ethnic Mamanua (IPES) dance carried out by the locals during thanksgiving, worship and as
well as wedding ceremonies.
The introduction to the celebration of the Maradjao-Karajao Festival is the Bulawanon
Barangay “Bulawanon” means beautification. Before the Bonok-bonok festivity held, preliminary
contest between the 22 barangays of Surigao City and 9 coastal barangays is done to spotlight the
month-long celebration that livens up to the household each and every individual family of Surigao
City.
Other activities that one should anticipate are street dancing taken part by various private government
groups making use of artistic costumes, enormous floats as well as compelling chanting of “Viva Señor
San Nicolas! Viva Maradjao Karajao!”.
Tourism potential aside, Surigao is a lot more prominently home to one of the country’s a great deal
of colorful tribes, the Mamanwas. Better known for their artistic patterns, metal accessories as well
as native products, the Mamanwas fill the streets dancing all through the Bonok Bonok Maradjao
Karadjao festival on September 9. Commemorated on the occasion of the feast of San Nicolas de
Tolentino, the Bonok Bonok features the natives’ appreciation to their animistic gods for a abundant
harvest and excellent health.
An assortment of antique historical diggings such as burial coffins jars as well as antique Chinese
kitchen wares found in Panhutungan, Placer is on public display at the Surigaonon Heritage Mini-
Museum located at the Boulevard in Surigao City.
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