Tag: Festival
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Lucban: Pahiyas Festival 2016
Houses are adorned with multicolored leaf-shaped rice wafers and every conceivable vegetable found in the residents’ kitchens. At almost every door, vendors are selling habhab, stir-fried noodles served on banana leaves and supposed to be eaten without any utensils or hands. And at the town church, throngs of crowd flock for the day’s mass. It’s…
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Ati-Atihan 2014
I’m from Metro Manila. I have grown accustomed to the chaos and noise around me growing up. But today, the closer I get to the center of Kalibo, the capital town of Aklan province in central Philippines, the more I realize that this parade, the drums and the costumes are not just loud, meaningless sounds.…
The Tourist Gaze 