Philippine Festivals---what is your most favorite?

we have different festivals here in the philippines even towns have their own festivals...but the most know festival that we have are sinulog in cebu, mascara in ilo-ilo and kadayawan festival in davao...i live here in davao of we love our festival here...it always catches the eye of every filipino all over the world, not only our kababayans but also foreigners who happen to came here to witness the celebration...it was also covered by THE FILIPINO CHANNEL of ABS-CBN.

Our very own, the MassKara Festival is my favorite among the Philippine festivals. Held every third week of October, each year. The word MassKara is a fusion of the English word "mass" or many and "kara", the Spanish word for "face". Masskara then becomes a "mass of faces". The MassKara festival started in 1980. It was the year that Bacoldnon experienced depressing situations. There was an economic crisis due to the low price of sugar and the hearthbreaking accident, the Don Juan vessel sank that killed many Negrosanon. The festival was made to hide the sorrow of the bacolodnon with the smiling and happy masks. It is also a declaration that no matter how tough and bad the times were Bacolod city is going to pull through, survive, and in the end, triump. www.bacolodcity.gov.ph/bacolod_masskara_festival.htm

I live in Quezon City and we don't have those colorful, lively festivals you people are mentioning so the closest I can mention is during New Year's Eve because of lots of fireworks.

I love Panagbenga or the Float Parade in Baguio and the Pahiyas Festival in Lucban, Quezon.

Mine, would be Penagbenga the baguio flower festival. I think Penagbenga means "the gathering". I also like the Pistay dayat in pangasinan

philippines is full of colorful festivals, but what i like most is the penagbena(flower festival) in baguio its so colorful and the floats made of flower formations looks very good and you cant imagine the creativity behind all of those..

i havent seen the palawan festival(baragatan)..not even on tv...can you describe how it is done??have you heard about the kadayawan festival..its what we called it in here in DAvao

I prefer the Dinagyang Festival of Iloilo City because of the great mass participation that will really make your day when you're there to witness the event. All the roads and highways are closed during the festival to accommodate restaurants and stores along the way. I also prefer our very own Kadayan Festival. That's in Davao City. I like it since I always remember the good times in my childhood years in that place.

Since I am from Davao City, I love Kadayawan which happens during August and of course the Araw ng Dabaw. Kadayawan reminds me of rambutan since it is rambutan's season. :)

Our very own, the MassKara Festival is my favorite among the Philippine festivals. Held every third week of October, each year. The word MassKara is a fusion of the English word "mass" or many and "kara", the Spanish word for "face". Masskara then becomes a "mass of faces". The MassKara festival started in 1980. It was the year that Bacoldnon experienced depressing situations. There was an economic crisis due to the low price of sugar and the hearthbreaking accident, the Don Juan vessel sank that killed many Negrosanon. The festival was made to hide the sorrow of the bacolodnon with the smiling and happy masks. It is also a declaration that no matter how tough and bad the times were Bacolod city is going to survive. www.bacolodcity.gov.ph/bacolod_masskara_festival.htm