Activities
to look forward ...
Kadayawan
sa Dabaw Festival
(Thanksgiving Festival for Nature’s Bounty)
This
internationally renowned festival is a weeklong
celebration and thanksgiving for nature’s bountiful
harvest. Celebrated annually every third week
of August. The activity coincides with the harvest
time of Davao’s exotic fruits and the blooming of the
waling-waling (vanda sanderana). The festival culminates
with its most famous and much-awaited grand floral parade
(where one can see
countless and breathtaking mobile floats full of real and
fresh flowers) and the dancing in the streets.
Davao
Agro-Industrial
Trade Fair
Traders,
manufacturers, and other agro-based industries converge to
showcase the latest in agriculture and other related
industries.
Paskuhan sa Dabaw
The City
celebrates Christmas with pomp and pageantry. Activities
range from church rituals, consumer fairs, carol singing
contests, carnivals, food festivals,
concerts, outdoor décor to lantern lighting competitions,
among others.
Araw ng Dabaw (Foundation of Davao City)
This is a
week-long celebration of the founding of the city that
culminates every 16th of March with a
socio-civic and military parade, sports competitions, and
fireworks.
One of
the highlights of the celebration is the selection of the
Mutya ng Dabaw (Miss Davao) from among the most beautiful
ladies in the land every 15th of
March.
Horse Show Competition
The
best horses, jockeys, and breeders in the land show their
wares and antics in the month of April.
