Masskara 2010 Part 1

Masskara Festival is celebrated in Bacolod City, province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. This Festival is also a competition of Mask creativity and street – stage dance performance.

Pasigarbo sa Sugbo 2010 Parade

Pasigarbo sa Sugbo’s 3rd year Festival held in Mandaue City, Cebu Philippines. It is the Festival of all festivals in the Island of Cebu.

Kasadyaan 2010 of Leyte

This is the stage dance performance contest in the Festival event in Tacloban City, the Kasadyaan Festival.

Marian Exhibit in Tacloban

This Marian Exhibit held in Robinson’s Place Tacloban City. The exhibit featured some 50 statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary gathered from around Tacloban City and other municipalities. Some of the statues came from known people of the Region like Congresswoman-elect Lucy Torres-Gomez.

Images of Lucban, Quezon

Got curious about Lucban Quezon’s Pahiyas Festival and decided to go there with friends to attend the festival last May 15 2010. Just wondering what this place looks like during the festival. Lucban I think has the best view of the Mt. Banahaw. One of their specialties is the Longanisang Lucban and been eating Longanisang Lucban since I was a kid and Longanisang Lucban is one of my favorite sausage.

Photos of Manila’s Aliwan Fiesta 2010

One of the most awaited event of Manila.The Manila’s Aliwan Fiesta is an event national competition. Colorful outfits and costumes, energetic and graceful dancers, raging drumbeats are all here at Aliwan’s Fiesta.

Gasang Gasang Festival Dance Competition 2010

After the street dancing, the participants of the Gasang Gasang Festival will assemble at the Guingona Plaza for the Gasang Gasang Festival Group Dance Competition where the winner will win P100,000. Consolation prizes for the non-winners is P20,000.

Gasang Gasang Festival 2010 in Gasan, Marinduque

Gasang gasang is the most popular festival of the said town and it occurs during Easter Sunday. The Easter festival will feature an agro-industrial fair showcasing native food and handicrafts; a memorable putungan welcome ritual for tourists and balikbayans, the daily rhythmic clop and crack of kalutang and drum players, a must-see pugutan stage presentation on Black Saturday and the popular street-dancing parade on Easter Sunday. So we went back to Gasan to see the Gasang Gasang...

Moriones Festival (The Morions)

Been to Boac, Marinduque last holy week to witness their Moriones Festival. With all our effort of getting there, its really an experience and really a must see!

Makati’s Caracol Festival 2010

Yesterday January 24, 2010, witnessed the 6th Caracol Festival in Makati City. Young kids elementary and high school in different districts of Makati City, dressed up in their colorful fauna and flora costumes to dance and parade them selves in the heart of Makati City. The Festival aims to instill in the minds of the new generation the importance of preserving and conserving our country’s ecology and natural resources. This makes the Festival a effective campaign for an environmental awareness in a form of celebration. The Caracol Festival is making its way to popularity in its...

Kalibo’s Ati-atihan Festival

Kalibo’s Ati-atihan Festival is a colorful and full music tribal festival of Kalibo, Aklan. It celebrates the feast day of Sto Nino and a very well known and one of the oldest festival in the Philippines. The Ati-Atihan was originally a pagan festival from this tribe practicing Animism, and their worshiping their anito god. Spanish missionaries gradually added a Christian meaning. Today, the Ati-Atihan is celebrated as a religious festival. Camera: Nikon D90 Lens : Nikon VR 55-200mm Courtesy of Jayd productions...

Christmas Lantern of Dolores, San Fernando City, Pampanga

We went to San Fernando City in Pampanga to buy a Christmas Lantern for our house and check out the Giant Lantern Festival while visiting some attractions around the town. Held in the capital city of San Fernando, which is known as one of the best makers of Christmas Lanterns, this has been a tradition in the city, Barangay Dolores won the 2009 Lantern Festival for their beautiful giant...