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Orientation
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Sights in the city itself include the
Davao Museum
(Tues-Sun 9am-noon & 1-5.30pm; tel 082/235 1876) at 13 Agusan Circle. The museum is dedicated to the area's cultural minorities such as the Mansaka and the Bogobo and has well-maintained displays of their clothes, weapons, as well as anthropological and historical exhibitions. The
T'boli Weaving Center
(tel 082/234 3050) at the
Insular Century Hotel Davao
is a good place to buy hand-woven fabric from T'boli tribespeople. This distinctive fabric has bold patterns that symbolize tribal beliefs, in much the same way aborigine art does in Australia. Davao's major
annual festival
is the mardi gras-style Kadayawan, held during the third week of August, which gives thanks for a bountiful harvest. One of the festival's highlights is horsefighting and there is seemingly endless street-dancing, tribal-style, to the sound of drums. Other useful information
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