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New Year Day begins with a bang on the very first day of the year. In the provinces people use home made bamboo cannons to shoot the old year out of and the New Year into their modest live. In the cities, New Year is celebrated with fireworks and hooting horns.
Procession of the Black Nazarene is celebrated when thousands of men parade through the streets with the life-size statue of the Nazarene which dates from the 17th century. Women can watch, but they cannot join. The event draws massive crowds, since touching the statue is supposed to produce astounding effects.
The Moriones festival is celebrated when M arinduque Crowds of town people dress up as a Roman legionaries and figures from the Bible. The masks and helmet called moriones are brought out and the bloody melodrama of how Jesus Christ was crucified begins.
Pahiyas Festival is celebrated in Lucban, border of Quezon Province. This festival is celebrated in honor of San Isidro where the town is colorfully festooned using fruits, vegetables, and flowers, with Chinese lanterns and Kipping.
Flores de Mayo is a gentle and esthetically pleasing fiesta which lasts for four week long. Every day, little girls in festive costume present fresh flowers to the Virgin Mary in church and at the end of the month the May festival culminates in processions and parades.
Besides these traditional festivals, Christmas is celebrated with great enthusiasm all over Philippines.
Worldtravel4indians.com provides information on Festivals of Philippines and different festive occasions of Philippines.
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