Tinagba Festival 2013

The 11th day of February is always a festive day to us Irigueños as we celebrate the Tinagba Festival in our City. It also coincides with the feast our Our Lady of Lourdes.

As always, the city was flooded by many visitors from the nearby town and different parts of the Bicol region to witnessed the event. This was also a red-letter day in Iriga since the President Pnoy declared it as a Special Non-Working Day. I also saw a lot of foreigners who came to watched too, which also shows that tourism is booming in the city.

I, my sister Joan and my niece Jaja went to the city proper to watched the bullcart caravan, float parade as well as the street dancing competition.

Here are some snapshots of the festivities.

Tinagba Festival 2013

The Tribal Community also joined the festivities.

Tinagba Festival 2013: Tribal Community

The bullcart caravan where members of the community paraded with carabao-drawn carts decorated to represent their sector. Also in the bullcart is their Tagba or alay to our Inang Lourdes.

Tinagba Festival 2013: Bullcart Caravan

Clowns in their colorful costumes and happy faces also joined the parade. The children watching made a delighting squeal of pleasure upon seeing the clowns doing their tricks.

Tinagba Festival 2013: Clowns in colorful costumes

This year Tinagba also featured a dazzling display of floats creatively made from indigenous materials. From what I observed this year's team is Fantasy. From the fairy tales world.

Tinagba Festival 2013: Float Parade

Tinagba Festival 2013:  Float Parade

Credits to Sante Cañal for some of the pictures I used in this post.