Once again, Lucban celebrates the Lucban San Isidro Pahiyas Festival, the colorful summer festival honoring the patron saint of farmers San Isidro Labrador. It was a bit cold and raining early in the morning but the weather becomes hotter as the sun shines occasionally. Generally the weather is hazy, the sky is gloomy in …
Good news to the people of Lucban specially to those who will participate and compete in this year’s Timpalak Pahiyas, the yearly competition for the best Pahiyas-decorated house. Owners of a well-known restaurant is giving away twice as much as what the Pahiyas Organizing Committee is giving for the grand prize – a whooping P100,000. …
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His name is Iljaz Ahmed, a 26 year old Pakistani (not Indian) and he is in the Philippines, and went to see the Lucban San Isidro Pahiyas Festival last May 15, 2009. He claims to be 8 feet and four inches and weighs 287 pounds. The gigantic Pakistani has come to the Philippines to raise …
Aside from local and foreign tourists, politicians were here to celebrate the Lucban San Isidro Pahiyas Festival. Joining the early morning procession was Congresswoman Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel (party-list Akbayan). Later in the afternoon, Sen. Manny Villar was roaming around the Pahiyas route together with Cong. Mark Enverga of the First District of Quezon. Gov. Raffy Nantes …
The tallest man in the world from Pakistan is here for the Lucban San Isidro Pahiyas Festival. Measuring 8 feet and 4 inches (254 cm), he can be clearly seen from the hordes of people roaming the procession/pahiyas route but he was still dwarfed by the Higantes that measures 10 feet tall (304.80 cm).Also shown …
With less than 12 hours to go (as of this writing), Lucban is already in chaos – traffic, both man and vehicles are building up, thanks to the fine weather, though the sun seldom shines. There’s no rain but the sky is hazy and the threat of a downpour is likely to happen anytime of …
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3 more days to go and yet Lucban is already bustling with lots and lots of people, vehicles and sponsors. Not only the streets are full, even high above the streets are full – of buntings, small flaglets of sponsors hanging in the air in the whole stretch of the busiest streets in Lucban and …
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After nine days, the final result of our first online polling has came out.. 36 votes came in and distributed as follows: 26 votes (or 72.2%) are not in favor while 10 votes (27.8%) are in favor with no one undecided. The Pahiyas Festival is supposedly a Catholic feast because it is celebrated in honor …
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At exactly 11:00 am, Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan arrived. He was greeted by Mayor Villaseñor and other government officials.