Major roads were closed to traffic and almost every street vendor had something to sell on Saturday at the grand street dancing of this year’s Baguio Flower Festival, popularly known as Panagbenga.
It was their faith in the Sto. Niño that brought them back to the Catholic faith. Couple Rasty and Lilibeth Seville were Protestants when they first attended the fluvial procession in 2001. Curiosity prompted them to accept the invitation of a friend to join him in his banca, but it turned out the watercraft was already carrying 20 people, way beyond its capacity of only 12.
Add cupfuls of “bagoong” (fish paste) to 750 kilos of eggplant, 250 kilos of ampalaya, 250 kilos of tomatoes, 4 kilos of okra and 2 kilos of “sili” to produce 21 versions of the traditional Ilocano stew we all know as “pinakbet.”
The Philippine Coast Guard on Friday said it would deploy personnel to help secure participants during the Sinulog Festival, particularly during the fluvial parade Saturday.
They were not aiming to break any records, but government engineers have worked out what are probably the fastest infrastructure projects in the city for January due to the Baguio Flower Festival that would start next month.
Preparations for Cebu’s two biggest feasts—the Sto. Niño and Sinulog Festivals—are in full gear.
The annual Baguio Flower Festival, which has been drawing most of the summer capital’s tourists in the last decade, should start selling tickets to keep down to a manageable level the visitors who watch its street dancing and float parades, an American university expert said here on Friday.
Works of art have taken center stage in this year’s MassKara Festival, which opened on Oct. 1 in Bacolod City. Setting aside competition to work together to ensure the success of the festival, several artists designed the giant puppets, smiling masks, colorful costumes and sea and mountain creatures aboard lighted boats, leaving local and foreign tourists amazed.
THE Cebu Dynamic Youth are inviting its members to join its annual mid-autumn festival and election of officers on Sunday, Sept. 23 at The Ching Palace.
Thousands of daredevils fled bulls galloping through Pamplona’s streets Saturday in the final bull run of Spain’s San Fermin festival, which resulted in four injuries due to falls.
Thousands of daredevils fled half-ton bulls thundering through Pamplona’s streets Saturday in the first bull run of Spain’s San Fermin festival, resulting in at least four injuries.
Tacloban residents and visitors were treated to two colorful but competing festivals held two days apart in the run-up to the city’s main fiesta celebration in honor of its patron, Senior Sto. Niño, on June 30.
Guyito, the popular carabao (water buffalo) mascot of the Inquirer hit it off with fiesta revelers in the annual “Pahiyas” here Tuesday.
