Celebrating the Snake Year on Baguio Spring Festival 2013
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The dragon dance during the recently concluded Spring Festival of Baguio.
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Baguio celebrated the entry of this year’s Year of the Water Snake via the
street parade of the Spring Festival 2013. A street showcase of the Chinese
community, live mascots, Panagbenga dances, drums and lyres, real snakes and
candies. Just like previous parades, it offered equal fun and happiness to kids
and people who have ‘sweet tooth’.
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Panagbenga 2013 Series: Spring
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The parade started at around 3 PM but prior to it, you have to reserve a
slot somewhere along the upper part of Session Road before 2:30 PM. That’s how
people expect the festival and indeed there were so many speculators when I
watched the Spring Festival too.
Baguio Spring Festival is similar to how the different China towns in the
country celebrate Chinese New Year. The most striking color during the parade
was red, other than the redder ones. Snake figurines and inflatables were
featured but the ones that wowed the visitors were real ones. REAL ONES.Some
people brought their ‘pets’ for the parade. And the snakes were big and long!
How I wonder if it wasn’t tamed or something then all of a sudden it becomes
wild and devoured the kid in front of the owner. Well, fortunately, the snake
knew that he will be the star for this year’s Spring Festival so he played cool
(oh not dead).
Of course, a parade will not be a typical Pinoy parade without giving
candies. Kids and adults who think like kids (and foreigners too) enjoyed
catching the candies thrown at them by the ones who participated for the street
parade. Sometimes though the thrower acts roughly and sometimes I think they
were rude in giving away the candies. Some people were hit in the head others
in the body. Couldn’t they just give the candies on hand by not throwing? It’s
culture. I have to deal with it. Besides Spring Festival was fun. =)
The drum and lyre corp
Panagbenga dance
Happy New Year!
The parade once again routed Session Road as its
main way. There were a lot of tourists who watched the Baguio Spring Festival
2013. However, it was not as grand as when Panagbenga offers the flower float
parade, which is actually the main dish of the festival series. But people
enjoyed the event and we’re hoping a bit more exciting Spring Festival in 2014.
But for now let’s wait for the next fiesta day on February 23, 2012 for the
Street Dance Parade of Panagbenga 2013!
Baguio City welcomes the year of the snake.
Ok ka ba tyan sa taas?
The cook and the cute.
See how people flocked in this year's Spring Festival.
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