Iloilo Festival and Fiesta

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 [...]

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Iloilo Paraw Regatta 2011 Winners

This year, the waters of villa beach is once again decorated with colorful sailboats. The 39th paraw regatta sailboat competition is hailed as largest sailing event in the Philippines. The event runs from February 13-20 2011 with various sports events and merrymaking activities. The last day of the event finishes off with sailboat race and [...]

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Iloilo Sinamba sa Paraw Regatta 2011

Sinamba sa Paraw Regatta is formerly known as Samba de Regatta. Quite frankly I prefered the latter since with its easier name recall. It’s definitely one of the most anticipated dance competition in Iloilo with sizzling hot dancers in their rio inspired exotic garb. Plus there’s few bloopers that made the night quite interesting. The [...]

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2011 Iloilo Paraw Regatta Festival Torch Parade

This year’s torch parade was less grand and a bit uneventful compared to last years Paraw Regatta Torch parade which had a lot of colorful she-mens in costume. This year, there’s lesser floats and not as grand and extravagant in the past. There’s little poi dancing on the streetdance. I had no idea what went [...]

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Salakayan Festival 2011 – Miagao Iloilo

It’s my third time in a row to experience the Salakayan Festival. The competing tribes consistently presents bigger and grander dance extravaganza. Iloilo City Mayor Jed Mabilog graced the event to show support to Miag-ao’s Salakayan festival. Also present were the Kabayao Family. If ever you missed out on Dinagyang Festivities, there’s Salakayan Festival to [...]

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Iloilo Chinese New Year Parade 2011

Iloilo celebrates Chinese New year with parade on February 4, 2011. The parade was led by Congressman Jerry Trenas, Mayor Jed Mabilog, Councilor Lex Tupas and other VIPS. Various chinese communities and schools also took part in the parade. I was looking forward to this year’s Chinese new year celebration. I was expecting that it [...]

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