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Davao to bid for world record with torotot festival on New Year’s Eve
After showing its residents can welcome the New Year without fireworks, Davao City is going one step further this year by welcoming 2014 with party horns (torotot).
Nothing but party horns (torotot) made of recycled plastic cups for the New Year's Eve celebration in Davao City as firecrackers are banned in the city. Keith Bacongco
Residents will also go for a world record for the biggest number of people blowing party horns at the same time, the city government said on its social media account.
"With our torotots, we will cast away the negative vibes of 2013, and welcome the new year with fresh new positive energy, and a new Guinness World Record!" it said.
The event will be held at the Freedom Park on Roxas Avenue from 1 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2013 to 1 a.m. of Jan. 1, 2014.
On Friday evening, the city government posted a map of the traffic rerouting scheme for the event.
One of the event's sponsors, a telecommunications company, offered prizes of up to P50,000 for the barangay with the largest "torotot contingent."
It also offered cash prizes for winners of the most creative torotot contest and inter-barangay dance contest.
Davao City had passed an ordinance against the manufacture, sale and distribution of firecrackers or pyrotechnic devices as early as 2002. —KG, GMA News
