One of the grandest festivals held during February in the Summer Capital of the Philippines, Baguio. The festival includes street dancing with performers clad in flower-inspired costumes and floats decorated with flowers of different shapes and sizes. This event also helps the younger generation of indigenous people to rediscover their culture and tradition. It also serves as a tribute to the ever beautiful flowers of Baguio City and as a way of rising to the 1990 Luzon earthquake devastation.
Panagbenga Festival will start February 1, 2014 (Saturday) and ends March 3, 2014 (Monday) which makes it a 5-week long celebration. This year marks their
18th celebration, so I'm pretty sure that this is going to be one spectacular event in the "Coolest" city in the country.
Through the years, the Panagbenga Festival has steadily become the best avenue where the people of Baguio can shine and innovate what best depicts their community.
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| Choy Rosales Photo via Flickr |
The Panagbenga makes accomodation really hard to book apart from Holy Week. Booking in advance is very much essential. If you don't, then goodluck getting a nice, warm and cozy place to stay. :)
If you can't find a hotel to stay, you may opt to look for a transient house which in most times a lot cheaper than a hotel/condo and it feels more like home. But everything is going to be in a do-it-yourself style (buy groceries, cook your food, heat your bath water and the like)
Pardon the borrowed photo's. I will be posting mine once the festival's been concluded. This isn't going to be my first time to visit Baguio, actually spent my teenage years there, but this is my first ever Panagbenga Festival. Really excited! :)
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ReplyDeleteyou used one of my photos! see you there in Panagbenga!!!
yes I did, hope you don't mind? hehe. I'll have it changed when I get to have my shots this Panagbenga 2014! see ya! Great shots sir joey! :)
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