Honoring the infant Jesus or Santo Nino, Ati-atihan festival dancers grace the streets with their outlandish paints on their faces, eccentric costumes and body rhythms and cheerful smiles. Celebrated on the bountiful province of Aklan on the island of Panay, the festival stands not to unwoven every tourist’s and spectator’s expectations of a week-long festivity with its parades, merrymaking, processions and of course the reason which every visitor has, street dancing. This event is history. Ati-atihan, meaning “make believe Atis” is not just any event of dancing and drumming, it is an event commemorating both history and faith.
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Viva Pit Senior! Sinulog Festival!
Held every 3rd Sunday of January, Sinulog Festival is crowned as one of the best distinguished, grandest and most colorful festivals in the Philippines. It is celebrated annually in the city of Cebu as part of their religious transformation from being pagans to being Christians. Like other patronal fiestas, Cebuanos celebrate the nine-day festivity with a Fluvial Parade a day before the Sinulog Grand Parade, which is the last event. People dance with the rhythm of the music sang by drums, trumpets and native gongs. It’s believed that the dance steps of Sinulog originated from the Rajah Humabon’s adviser, Baladhay. Baladhay was sick and so, Rajah Humabon sent him to the room where the Santo Nino was in together with other gods that Cebuanos praise. After few days, Baladhay began shouting because he was tried to wake up tickled by a child with a midrib of a coconut. Then, the child made fun of him, in turn, Baladhay danced with the little child and announced to the people that it is actually the dance of the river, thus giving the steps of Sinulog Festival: two steps forward, one step backward.
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Puerto Galera Resorts: Must Visited Schemes
Located on the northwestern part of the province of Oriental Mindoro, Puerto Galera thrives healthily along with its diverse sea of corals making it one of the highest population and diversity of marine species in the world. Tourism has replaces the previous living of the people of Puerto Galera which is fishing because they found out that catering local and international tourists would cost them much higher than fishing. For this, the National Statistics Coordination Board of the Philippines has rated the town to be 1st class in terms of living based on household income. Thus, making Puerto Galera resorts become more prominent and indulging.
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Philippines Affordable Travel Deals
Philippines, an archipelago rich in culture and nature’s bounty, is one of the world’s healthiest countries as to the list of most traveled nations. Though airports in the Philippines are not yet as standard and progressive compared to those of other first world countries, Philippines still settles in a good spot in the tourism section. Eventually, tourists to the Philippines last year reached 3.52 million from January to December, a 12.66% higher than 2010’s tourist statistics. The East Asian region gets the highest share of almost 1.7 million or 47.55%. Koreans are the top visitors of the country accounting up to 839,111 higher than the over-all tourist arrival of North American region. The second race that visited the country the most is the Americans, followed by the Japanese, the Chinese and the Taiwanese. These outputs could be quite an evidence of inexpensive travel deals that Filipino providers offer.
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Philippine All Inclusive Vacation Packages
Vacation is the time where you seek for relaxation, calm your mental oppression, and burst the stress out of you. It’s one way of expressing yourself. Vacation all over the Philippines is one good decision you could ever make taking into account the white sand beaches, roller coaster ride roads, evergreen forests, exciting animals, dangerous terrains and remarkable hotels of course. For vacationers, hotels and reservation centers provide deals that would invite tourists and visitors to come in their places. They offer all inclusive vacation packages to pack it all up, from the transportation, tour, lodging, food and leisure.
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Mindanao and Its Last Minute Travel Deals
Decided to abruptly travel and have made not early reservations? Well, you need to have last minute travel deals which of course, are rare especially here in the Philippines. But the good news is, there are travel spots in the Philippines that require no early reservations, only just, you have to arrange plane or ship tickets abruptly too, that is if you really want to travel now. And if you’re talking of a travel spot, Mindanao is a haven of such. It is considered as the Land of Promise of the archipelago that cradles more than a hundred of different tribes living harmoniously as people of the Philippines.
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