SUBIRAN REGATTA
June 28
An exciting race of one-man native sailboats with outriggers locally called "subiran" along scenic and historic Leyte Gulf. The race is done without using a paddle but only skills and techniques to maneuver the sail.

PINTADOS FESTIVAL
June 29
A dance festival of painted dancers celebrating important events like exploits of war, nature worship in narrative dance movements depicting their own folk practices and beliefs. The custom of tattooing earned for the Leyteños the name of Pintados.

BALYUAN RITES
June 29
Balyuhan Tower,Tacloban City
The Feast of Sto. Niño, the revered patron saint of Tacloban is celebrated with a pageant reenacting the historical exchanges of images between Barrio Buscada of Basey, Samar and Sitio Kankabatok now Tacloban City

STO NIÑO DE LEYTE FIESTA
June 30
Tacloban City
The January fiesta was given over to the children as "hermanito mayors" for the fiesta. And the small image of the Sto. Niño, the "Sargento" was made to stay in the home of whoever was the "Hermanito Mayor" for the next January fiesta. From then on, the grand fiesta of Tacloban was to be celebrated on June 30 every year.

LEYTE GULF LANDING ANNIVERSARY
October 20
Palo and Dulag, Leyte
A commemorative program which marks the anniversary of the October 20, 1944 landing on Leyte of the Allied Forces of Liberation. General Douglas