1st Lake Danao Festival in Ormoc City (Photos & Video)
Tuesday, July 01, 2014Our City Fiesta festivities this year may have been cut back due to damages suffered from Yolanda (Typhoon Haiyan) and the city is still recovering from it but, nevertheless, we continued to show resilience in line with this year's theme: "We prayed, We survived, One city, Moving on."
Thus, the 1st Lake Danao Festival was materialized. We have been waiting for this moment because as an Ormocanon, I feel proud that we have this beautiful lake that we can take our guests and visitors to. I mean, why not bring them here instead of other places? Shouldn't this be our #1 tourist spot when they come over? Unfortunately, politics and other factors have been playing tug of war for the longest time so projects for the lake have always been put aside (if not totally ignored), but now thanks to the private sector, headed by the Ormoc City Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation with the Ormoc LGU and the DENR's Protected Area Management Board, the 1st Lake Danao Festival turned out a successful event.
Friends and visitors from different parts of the Philippines came to participate in the events, namely, the Half-Marathon, Mountain Bike Challenge, 6K Trail Run, Kayak Race, and Stand Up Paddle. There were more participants than anticipated actually but there could have been more if the event was advertised earlier. Some already registered to other races happening at nearby towns. But for a beginning event, the 1st Lake Danao Festival was already very good. And that didn't come from just me but many participants said it themselves.
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| Half-Marathon |
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| MTB Challenge |
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| 6K Trail Run |
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| Kayak Race |
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| Stand Up Paddle |
Half-Marathon (21K) MENS:
1st place - Jordan Bacong
2nd place - Jorry Ycong
3rd place - JayR Bagon
Half-Marathon (21K) WOMENS:
1st place - Rodith Ollave
2nd place - Marivic Tan
3rd place - Heidi Mendoza
Half-Marathon (21K) EXECUTIVE:
1st place - Jimmy Bolo
2nd place - Allan Guerra
3rd place - Randy R. Alba, OPA
MTB Challenge MENS - Beginner:
1st place - Ronald Sabayno
2nd place - Ivo Enecio
3rd place - Sandot Sagales
MTB Challenge WOMENS - Beginner:
1st place - Janesa Suplico
2nd place - Lennette Vanzuela
3rd place - Rachel Jacoba
MTB Challenge MENS - Executive:
1st place - Rey Erasmo
2nd place - Conrado Beato, Sr.
3rd place - Jiji Jacoba
MTB Challenge MENS - Open:
1st place - RJ Beato
2nd place - Johnny Sevillejo
3rd place - Conrado Beato, Jr.
MTB Challenge WOMENS - Open:
1st place - Marie Cortes
6K Trail Run MENS:
1st place - Aldo Bararesas
2nd place - Rodney Celetro
3rd place - Leonardo Lacostales
6K Trail Run WOMENS:
1st place - Michelle Arpan
2nd place - Pamela Gravillo
3rd place - Ivi Rodriguez
Kayak Race - Open:
1st place - Diosdado Poradero & Arnold Panilag
2nd place - Julito Singson & Loydan Kabagti
3rd place - Ronald Puntod & Arnel Puntod
Kayak Race - Beginner:
1st place - Roy Donaire & Ronilo Mapula
2nd place - Ironne Montehermoso & RJ Con-ui
Note: The Stand Up Paddle competition was cancelled due to lack of participants but the clinic was still held for those who wished to learn SUP.
Thank you so much to all the generous sponsors who contributed largely to make this event very succesful and to our friends from Palompon for their support in lending us their kayaks and paddle boards headed by Mr. Raoul Bacalla.
Lake Danao is a guitar-shaped lake on the island of Leyte, Philippines in the province of Leyte.
The lake is covering an area of 148 hectares (370 acres). It is situated in the 2,193 hectares (5,420 acres) Lake Danao National Park, which also includes the Amandiwin mountain range. The lake is 18 kilometres (11 mi) northeast of Ormoc City, half an hour drive along the San Pablo - Tongonan and Milagro - Lake Danao roads.
It was originally named "Lake Imelda" and was declared a national park on June 2, 1972 by virtue of presidential memorandum issued by then President Ferdinand Marcos. Later it was renamed and declared as Lake Danao National Park on February 3, 1998 through Proclamation No. 1155 and is now protected by Republic Act No. 7586 otherwise known as the National Integrated Protected Area System (NIPAS) Act of 1992.[1] The lake supplies potable water to at least seven towns in Eastern Leyte including Tacloban City[2] as well as the source of irrigation for ricelands in some municipalities like Dagami, Burauen, Pastrana and Tabon-tabon.
At 650 metres (2,130 ft) above sea level, Lake Danao lies on an altitude similar to Tagaytay, making the area cooler than the average Philippine temperature.
(info taken from Wiki)
If you remember back in 2010, Noodle Boy and I went on a trip to Lake Danao to take some pics and just marvel at nature. You can read that post HERE.
And now here's my VLOG about the event as well as interviews of the winners. Please watch it below or visit my YouTube channel at http://youtu.be/7tVhZp4NiYI.
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P.S. My #FOTD for the event.
This photo was taken 5 hours after I put on my #FOTD and my #makeup has not budged a bit! ✨ I used @shuuemuraph OB UV Under Base brightening mousse and @benefitbeautyph porefessional pro balm under my MAC studio fix powder plus foundation. Also used Benefit Hoola for contouring. My face is, however, dewy (not shiny) after 5 hrs from doing documentation for today's 1st Lake Danao Festival but I'm happy it held up until 8 hours later when I finally had to retouch my T-zone since we've been running all over the place covering the different sports events. Even my brows drawn and filled in with @anastasiabeverlyhills dipbrow in blonde stayed put for 12 hours! 👍👍 But more on that in a blog post soon!
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