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Festivals
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Every year, hundreds of
fiestas
are celebrated in the Philippines and it's well worth timing your journey to see one of the major ones. It's at these festivals that you get a chance to see legendary Filipino hospitality at its best. The beer flows, pigs are roasted and there's dancing in the streets for days on end. More solemn fiestas, usually religious in nature, are a mixture of devotion, drama, passion and reaffirmation of faith. The
crucifixions
held every Good Friday in Pampanga draw tourists who come to see penitents being flogged then nailed to a cross. Other major festivals include the
Ati-Atihan
every third week of January in Kalibo, the
Flores de Mayo
held throughout May in honour of the Virgin Mary, and the
Lanzones
festival every October in Camiguin celebrating the island's favourite fruit. Other useful information
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