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It offers awesome tourist attractions, magnificent beaches, hot spring resorts, colorful festivals, hundreds of scenic spots and world-class hotels and facilities. Not to mention the tropical climate, the affordable prices as well as the friendly and hospitable, English-speaking people! You will be glad you came, and we’re sure, you WILL come back for more FUN in the Philippines!

HALAMANAN FESTIVAL

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The Halamanan Festival is celebrated in Guiginto , Bulacan every 23rd of January to celebrate their love of plants, flowers and trees, which provide them a means of livelihood.

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The town of Guiguinto is well-known for its plant nurseries, which provide people with a unique livelihood much appreciated not just throughout the province but also by city dwellers who yearn for their spot of greenery. The townsfolk thus celebrate the Halamanan festival in January to coincide with the feast of its town patron San Ildefonso. Simulating their own Garden of Eden, and manifesting a twin devotion to Sta Rita de Casia, the students from Felizardo C. Lipana Memorial High School and Tuktukan Elementary School, as supported by DepED and their honorable mayor Isagani Pascual, simulate the movement of plants as they depict the propagation, growth, and nourishment of their natural flora. – Read More: cbdpedicab.com

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