Gayon Bicol – Festival Showdown sa Magayon: Photos and Results
The Gayon Bicol: Festival Showdown sa Magayon is one of the most colorful and vibrant highlights of Magayon Festival 2012. Here are the results of this year’s competition.
Higantes: Parade of the Giants
The mythical creatures of ancient Bikol folklore will come alive in a grand, larger-than-life fashion at the Higantes: Parade of the Giants, a highlight of the month-long Magayon Festival 2012.
Good Friday Procession 2011 in Legazpi
Thousands of Catholic faithful throng the streets of Legazpi City every Good Friday to witness the procession of beautifully decorated carrozas and pasos bearing statues re-enacting the passion and death of Jesus Christ.
Albay sets Christmas Lantern, Pastores Festival
The province of Albay is poised to become a vital Christmas tourist destination as it revives age-old traditions with a lantern-making festival and the Pastores Bikol on December 13, 2010 in Legazpi City
Ibalong Festival 2010: Celebrating Bicol’s Folk Epic
The annual celebration of Bicol’s folk epic-fragment, the Ibalong, returns this October 2010 — bigger, more colorful and more festive than ever. The Ibalong Festival 2010 is a month-long celebration that also coincides with the feast of St. Raphael the Archangel and the fiesta of the Legazpi Port District.
Ibalong: Bicol’s Folk Epic-Fragment
Ibalong, the sixty stanzas the remain of a full-length folk epic that is today little known even in Kabikolan itself, was presumably jotted down in its complete Bicol narrative by Fray Bernardino de Melendreras (1815-1867), a Franciscan missionary in Ginobatan, Albay, from a minstrel referred to in the epic as Kadungung and who could be the same wandering bard described years later by another Franciscan, Fray Jose Castaño (b. 1854), as “Homero de Ibalon.”
Magayon Art Exhibit 2009
The 2009 Magayon Art Exhibit showcases the talents of Albayanos in the Visual Arts. This exhibit is located at the atrium of the Albay Provincial Capitol. Several outstanding works of art are on display for the whole month of April.
Legazpi City’s Good Friday Procession
Every Good Friday, the Catholic citizens of Legazpi gather to commemorate the passion and death of Jesus Christ by witnessing and joining the annual procession. Beautiful ‘carrozas’ carrying various Saints as well as scenes from Christ’s passion and death are decorated with hundreds of flowers and lights and solemnly paraded through the streets of the city. The faithful, with candles and rosaries in hand, follow the ‘carrozas’ as it meanders through the city.
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Climbing Up to Mayon’s Base Camp
Climbing up to the summit of the Philippines’s most active volcano is truly an experience of a lifetime. Climbing up to the level close to the summit or an area commonly referred to as the knife’s edge is for the intermediate-expert climber or for one who is very fit. It normally takes two days and one night to reach the summit and it is essential that one have a competent and knowledgeable local guide.
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04/28/12
Mutya ng Magayon 2012
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4/20/12
2012 Magnolia Purewater Mayon 360°
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Ginoo ng Magayon 2012
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Gayon Bicol – Festival Showdown sa Magayon: Photos and Results
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