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Baguio: Panagbenga Festival, February 2013

The festival, held during the month of February was created as a tribute to the city's flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake. It includes floats that are decorated with flowers  street dancing, presented by dancers clad in flower-inspired costumes inspired by the Bendian, an Ibaloi dance of celebration that came from the Cordilleras.










Binondo, Manila: Chinese New Year Festival 2013
The oldest Chinatown in the whole world celebrates the annual Chinese New Year with Dragon and Lion dances. Photographers are all over the place to capture the event's highlights and do most interesting street photography.









Ilolilo : Dinagyang Festival January 2013
The main part of the festival consists of a number of "tribes", called "tribus", who are supposed to be Ati tribe members dancing in celebration. Traditionally no actual Ati are involved nor do they benefit in any way from this event. However, this year's celebration featured an actual Ati Tribe as guest performer gathering thunderous applause from the crowd. 
Dinagyang was voted as the best Tourism Event for 2006, 2007 and 2008 by the Association of Tourism Officers in the Philippines. It is the first festival in the world to get the support of the United Nations for the promotion of the Millennium Development Goals, and cited by the Asian Development Bank as Best Practice on government, private sector & NGO cooperatives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinagyang_Festival















San Fernando, Pampanga: Sinukwan Festival December 2012
The event relives the spirit of the Kapampangan in honor of Aring Sinukwan, the god of ancient Kapampangans.









Bataan: Pawikan Festival, November 2012








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