Carabao Carroza Festival 2011 in Pavia Iloilo
Pavia’s Carabao Carroza Festival is know as one of the oldest carabao festival in Iloilo. The festival is held on first week of May. The Carrozza Parade is one of the highlights of the festival where the carabaos are paraded around with beautifully decorated Carrozza with the town muses in it. The main event is of course the “Carabao Carroza” race. Afterwards, the people of pavia will get to enjoy the feasts prepared in homes. There’s no streetdancing competition as commonly found in most festivals. But there’s enough activity to keep the people entertained. It was my first time to witness the Carabao Carroza festival. However, the transport strike slightly ruined the festive mood since it was difficult to catch a jeepney in a scorching heat. Nonetheless, I managed to make it to the Carabao-Carroza Race held at Pavia NHS school grounds. I was flabbergasted to witness how Carabao can run quite fast. I had this impression that carabaos were slow moving beasts who loves to soak in muddy water. Anyway, it was dangerous to get to close to the finish line since there’s a possibilty of getting trampled by these powerful beasts. After the race ended, I did a bit of roaming around and checking out the carrozas on display in the school grounds.
Carabao Carroza Festival 2011 Photos
“It was my first time to attend the Carroza Festival in Pavia last May 3. It was too bad that there’s transport strike on that date. I’ve never thought that carabaos could really run that fast! Wish that the race was longer though.”
From Carroza Festival 2011, posted by Ilonggo Net on 5/07/2011 (12 items)
- Albino carabao.
- Watching these beast storming towards me can be scary (0.o)
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Tags: Carozza Festival, Pavia Iloilo
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May 23rd, 2011 at 8:46 am
Nice to see the carrabao festival again..I was not able to go home on our place in sta. barbara for four years but thanks much because we got updated the events through your site.