Eastern Visayas Blog

Region VIII: Eastern Visayas

Eastern Visayas has a Total land area of 23,251.10 km2

Biliran Samar
Eastern Samar Southern Leyte
Leyte Ormoc City
Northern Samar Tacloban

(Douglas Macarthur Statue 2011,Philippines file photo courtesy of Best Tourist Spot.)

Composed of 3 main islands namely leyte and samar, connected by the san junico bridge, and biliran island.

PEOPLES

The waray peoples are a subgroup of a Visayan people whose primarily language is the Waray Language (aslo-called Lineyte-Samarron), an Austronesian language native to the islands of Samar, Leyte and BIliran.

LANGUAGE

Waray-waray is the lingua franca of the Eastern Visayas Region, and mostly spoken on the island of Samar, BIliran, Tacloban and northern-leyte.

FESTIVALS

(Karapayan Festival in Eastern Samar 2015)

KARAPAYAN FESTIVAL

A colorful festival de picting how the early guiuan townsfolk enjoyed nature's bounties, and rich marine life, fertilize land, verndant forest.
It also thanksgiving to their patroness, the blessed virgin mother.

(Buyog-buyogan Festival in Leyte 2015)

BUYOG-BUYOGAN FESTIVAL

Abuyog "BUYOG" (bees) dancers, depict the origin of the town's name in well choreographers in dance.
It was held during August of 29th

(Sinulog festival in Southern Leyte Courtesy of photo 2015)

SINULOG FESTIVAL

The word sinulog comes from the cebuano adverb which roughly means "like water current movement."
It describe the forward and one step backward movements of the sinulog dance.

GASTRONOMY

(Courtesy of Eastern Visayas Delicacies)

MORON

Moron is pronounced like moron. Moron is like the regular suman but the rice is cooked in coconut milk and mixed with a bit of cocoa.
The Moron has the similar consistency of the suman and the cocoa enchances the taste.
Also moron is so soft that you can cut the small tube with a pair of scissor down the middle and just squeeze it out.

(Courtesy of Eastern Samar Delicacies)

BINAGOL

Binagol is pronounced with a longer stress on the "A". Binagol is made of a root crop named talyan. Coconut milk and sugar. It is then molded into a coconut shell.
Binagol is quite sweet with the distinct taste of the root crop.

(Courtesy of Biliran Delicacies)

SUMAN BILIRAN

The tasty suman of naval of different flavors like the tinambiran (a combination of white and brown glutinous rice), plain white suman and suman with mango marmalade are emerging nowdays.
It has gathered thousands of ordered at a trade fair last 2012.

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