January 20th, 2008
The Philippines’ Ati-Atihan Festival
The third Sunday in January is the Ati-Atihan Festival, one of the most colorful festivals in the Philippines. The celebration has its roots in the 13th century, when a handful of families escaped Borneo for a new life in the Philippines. These new arrivals, members of the Ati tribe, were darker skinned than the existing, […]
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