It's flower season in the city of Pines - perfect timing for an all-out fiesta in the streets. The Baguio folk take a break on these days to revel in the cool climate and the unique culture of the city. Multi-hued costumes are worn, mimicking the various blooms of the highland region (or any of its 11 ethnic tribes). These are flowerbeds - disguised, of course, as the Panagbenga parade floats.
Panagbenga Festival (Filipino.Biz.Ph)
During the flower season at the City of Pines, the Baguio folks take a break to revel in the cool climate and the unique culture of their city.
Multi-hued costumes are worn, mimicking the various blooms of the highland region or any of its 11 ethnic tribes.
There's also the flower beds disguised as the Panagbenga parade floats. The festivities include a parade, street dancing,
marching bands as well as trade fair and bazaar.
Panagbenga Festival (Wikipedia) Panagbenga is month-long annual flower festival occurring in Baguio, the summer capital of the Philippines.[1] The term is of Malayo-Polynesian origin, meaning "season of blooming". The festival, held during the month of February, was created as a tribute to the city's flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake. The festival includes floats that are decorated with flowers unlike those used in Pasadena's Rose Parade. The festival also includes street dancing, presented by dancers clad in flower-inspired costumes, that is inspired by the Bendian, an Ibaloi dance of celebration that came from the Cordillera region.
Panagbenga 2009 (SunStar) An estimated one million people went up to Baguio to witness the Panagbenga 2009 Festival. Its main events were held February 28 (Street Dancing Competition) and March 1 (Grand Float Parade).
News, features, commentary and videos about Pangbenga 2009.
Panagbenga Festival Baguio City The Panagbenga Festival is held yearly during the month of February. The celebrations are held for over a month and peak periods are the weekends. The Panagbenga Festival showcases the many floral floats and native dances. The fragrant smells that could be presently teasing olfactory senses are probably less from the now-dried flowers from Valentine's Day than air floating all the way from Baguio City. At this time of year, the City of Pines is almost surely in flower fury over Panagbenga festival, the city's biggest festival.
Panagbenga Flower festival spurs high Baguio hotels’ occupancy rate Since 1993, the month-long event has become the greatest tourism stimulus here, attracting an average of a million local and foreign visitors coming especially for the street dancing and flower floats parade — the main features of the festival.
