Arriving at SINULOG FESTIVAL 2024 in Cebu Philippines
oh well yellow one is nice matches the dress the dress yeah thank you Mama thank you let the festivities of syal begin if this fits I think my head is too big per perfectly match let's do this yeah myang hon everybody Welcome to seu Philippines and happy synal to everybody watching we are in the center of the festivities right now and this is our very first time in seu and our very first time experiencing calog Festival Wow all I can say right now is wow it's so colorful there's a lot happening it's early on in the day and uh there's a lot of people selling pretty much everything that you can imagine from fruit to festive headwear to uh colorful balloons to peanuts yeah everything is happening here in seu there's so many people here and it seems to be like the main song at least for seu is the song called I love sa it's really really funny but it's already stuck in our heads we've been singing it for two days straight now I love right now guys we're very close to an area of where melan's cross apparently is have no idea what to expect but I can't get over just how many people are here it is heavily populated and uh very very dense we saw so many cars parked on the side of the road yeah it's crazy there is so so many people and everybody sort of is bringing at least the people that are from the area obviously we don't have one but a lot of people are bringing the santono so the holy Child uh basically and they're bringing him to the festival to race basically and it's such a nice uh nice tradition to think about that so yeah oh they're already praying I think only to get some candles I don't know they're all coming now some one thank you 50 P colorful one is okay just 50 okay 100 okay thank you so much thank you all right guys the current situation is that we're standing outside of the S and we're waiting to go in it seems like there's a lot of people queuing up and they're only like slowly slowly letting the people go inside and we bought our candles so now we're just sort of waiting to go inside and see what happens we're both super excited I really can't get over just how many people there are here guys this is such a beautiful experience a big Collective energy moving towards this beautiful Church oh wow I wish we knew the words yeah I know uh this is gorgeous all right guys we both feel a little bit stupid now we have been queuing because we thought we had to light these candles somewhere but the people seem to be giving an offering and praying here and then they just throw the candles into the middle part there I really didn't I really didn't know that we bought them and we were like oh maybe we're going to go in and light them in the church but people are just throwing them away into into this yeah it's like uh the lady said this is like an offering or something like that but we were sure that we were will have to light them but yeah everybody's just throwing them there in the middle part where the crosses uh yeah so super interesting you learn new things every day we're going to go in with our candles have a look around inside and then come back out and then Chuck our candles into the middle foreign for for I think this oh my God there is a here guys wow people are loading into this place many oh my God I'm not sure what is about to happen wow that was a really heavy Rush of people there yeah I got a little bit scared for for a brief second yeah but now we're fine unless you want to push yourself through the front but I'm I'm okay see it from from uh the distance yeah guys just have a look at this so many people it's a communion station station you can get uh it's like like holy uh communion like baptizing guys this is something that we would have never expected this to be to be honest we came in with no expectations of what it's going to be and so far it's really blown us away just how many people are here the whole vibe the atmosphere yeah it is uh incredible and tomorrow is the main day so today is Saturday and uh tomorrow is when the real celebrations are going to kick off so I'm sure we're going to be having another video for you guys as well but wow it is crazy there's people behind me a lot of people behind me my God everybody and their grandmother is here the new stations are here some celebrities we saw already as well yeah this is so beautiful yeah the inside I wish we could show you guys but it's again totally packed for uh wow guys I've never seen this many people in one place there seems to be several different stations where you can give your candles as an offering there was the other one before that we already saw where you uh throw them basically into the middle and then there is this one here as as well um where we decided to put our candles which is L which is what Luke is going to do I love all the colors here guys this is like literally a NeverEnding crowd of people that are at least but that's what it seems like now we're feeling pretty hungry and thirsty so I think we're going to try Jollibee for the very first time so I think this is probably going to be the most Filipino video that we've ever done that's for sure it's trying jollybee at Cog in seu very very first time trying a jollybee but it seems like this jollybee is as busy as the church yep look at this street guys crazy really crazy I love it though guys Welcome to the EST jollybee in all of the Philippines this place is absolutely packed from literally from here from the front number all the way to the back number seems to be a pretty good organization here in the Jolly Be though for how many people there are there's even a lady taking the order beforehand she sort of H you the note and then you just walk to the cash register and you pay and our queue is moving along uh quite fast I don't know the last time we sort of checked in was maybe 2 minutes ago it's crazy there's like uh probably around 1 thousand people in here I can't believe it m so many people but as I said very sort of fast and effective way to get through the people so I'm quite happy with how fast it's moving and I'm very excited to try Jolly for the first time what a day to to try it so guys after around an hour and a half standing in that crazy jolli bees we got ourselves some food and um I'm really enjoying this coke float now there's still thousands of people here on the streets there's very very little space just have a look yeah we're standing here enjoying the coke float and um this whole experience so far has been pretty much unbelievable I can't even really put words to it I've never seen this many people for this type of work for Catholicism all in one place this is very unique very special and I'm very excited for tomorrow as well there's going to be a lot of Street parties and dancing and stuff like that so I can't wait for that yeah guys this is H delicious it's like a vanilla ice cream with some chocolate sauce and um in a Coke float it's really good and I'm really excited to try the food as well really refreshing we need the sugar as well okay guys so it's a little bit of a impromptu side of the road trying a chicken sandwich review here I never thought that our first time ever trying Jollibee would be here at sinulog in seu um literally like I just said the streets are overrun the traffic is Extreme and that Jollibee was uh one of the wildest experiences that I've ever had in a restaurant I've never seen that many people in a in a jollybee or in any fast food establishment that was actually it was our very first time inside of a Jollibee and uh yeah it's going to be one to remember I think but here we go this is a chicken sandwich I just saw it on the menu and I figured why not so let's give it a try okay that's very good the fried chicken is uh really tender very very juicy there's a lot of juice going on there and um the sauce the sauce on the burger I don't I don't even know how to really describe it it's almost like a sweet Thousand Island sauce very very unique and the burger has a lot of seasoning so like the color of it is nice it's nice and uh well seasoned and the crispiness of the chicken is fantastic too oh my God that is a really good chicken burger you want want to try some of this that is a nice chicken burger right I'm very excited from Luke's uh reaction sorry I'm starving here behind the camera I was like okay I can feel my stomach B basically in my knees that's what you would say in jman it's yummy no that's really good people always say the JY bee is so sweet but I don't really I don't I don't really think it's sweet the sauce has a sweet it's maybe like a dressing type of sauce yeah but it's not like you know I was anticipating like Chutney jams kind of a sweet thing you know but this one is not actually as sweet as I thought it would be now I'm excited to try my D what did do guys I think Naomi went for a spaghetti I went for a spaghetti but I hope that they gave me a fork or something the Jolly Bee sweets spaghetti Jolly spaghetti this is a really good burger guys I really can't knock it at all to be honest I I don't have a fork they didn't give us a fork for the spaghetti what's going on it's okay though I think the restaurant was just very overwhelmed so yeah now I have spaghetti but my if I wouldn't have really dirty hands I would maybe eat it with my hands um but I feel like a saucy spaghetti is not NE necessarily the way to go right now with bare hands with no way of washing my hands before or afterwards so I'm just going to I'm just going to go in with the pie immediately so a peach and mango High um never add it looks at that people say that you have to offer this one order this one so I went with it oh there's so much coming out of the pastry is sort of like your like McDonald's Apple uh pie type of a thing but on the inside it tastes like Peach and mango similar to you know this little like fruit pots that you had as a child it's like super orangey peach mango type of fruit pots so that's exactly what the inside tastes like super good there's a man Shing peanuts nice this one is really good though yeah maybe I'm just going to have another one of of the of the pies because Luke also got a pie so maybe I'm just going to have that one yeah yeah instead of eating a full meal so guys based off of the coke float and the chicken burger we didn't order very much food as you can tell but you got two mango Pies Two Peach mango pies fries uh fries were n kind of not so great a bit flery a bit floppy yeah the mango pie is something that uh did you like it did you enjoy the mango pie it's amazing y very good so this is this gets a good rating the chicken burger was fantastic I really like the fried chicken and um yeah pooke float as well pooke float was interesting I never thought that that the Philippine the Philippine would find a way to make Coke sweeter than it already is but you guys did it and um yeah it kind of worked like I enjoyed it and uh overall uh out of a 10 I would give jollybee like a seven it's uh very decent and I definitely want to try different things on the menu maybe when it's not overrun and packed like it was yeah that's what I wanted to say as well just if you try like select items off of the menu on a day that is not so crazy because today like there were about 400 500 people there wait just waiting for their food and there were more people coming in ordering so I think it was just a whole lot of overwhelmed stuff and uh people trying to cook as fast as possible but yeah the food was good regardless I would also give it like a s out of 10 um I would like to try the spaghetti though like maybe next time when we go to Jolly bees I'm going to have it and uh then also get a fork yeah guys this experience uh today on the Saturday um so far it has been really something else something pretty unexpected we never would have thought that this is what we would uh encounter this is like it's our first day now exploring around seu and it's overwhelming that's for sure some people say to totally avoid seu during the time of this Festival because of how hectic and crazy it gets and uh yeah there's literally roads closed off traffic is being diverted in all different directions and where we're staying is in a place called Lapu Lau City so just outside of sebu around around 8 km outside of of seu is where we are and it is difficult getting a taxi or a grab uh around here because of just how busy it is so keep that in mind if you are watching and you're thinking about visi visiting here try and plan in advance try and book somewhere maybe in the center of Sabu and it will save yourself a lot of headache now I know all the accommodations sell out here very quick so make sure to plan ahead though yeah it's not only uh tourists from abroad coming here to celebrate this Festival it's also basically the entirety of the Philippines that is coming here to celebrate so it's just a whole lot of people we were talking to some locals and they were saying um it's maybe around 2 million people or something like that we were thinking like sort of 1 million but the local said it's more than um what you might think so yeah very busy but super amazing day I think
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