Are you looking for a brilliant holiday this May with your loved ones? If yes, then take your cheap flights to the Philippines as you will not be able to find a better holiday destination than this amazing and colourful country at this time of the year. The reason is that during the month of May the Philippines emit joy from each and every of its corner as it celebrates its Harvest Festival. Entire of the Philippines drenches into the festivity as it marks the rest period of thanksgiving after amazing harvest of crops and to honour the patron saint of farmers for protecting their crops and giving them high yields.
The most colourful and vibrant Harvest Festival celebrations take place in the towns of Lucban, Tayabas and Syria. All of these towns celebrate the same festival but each has their distinct yet mesmerizing style as the Philippines is a very diverse country. For rice alone, there are more than 250 names in the Philippines due to different dialects. It means that in one vacation to the Philippines during the month of May you can enjoy countless traditions and cultures. Can you think of a better refreshing and enlivening experience? Of course, you cannot!
As you take your cheap flights to the Philippines, be sure that an amazing and enriching holiday experience is coming your way. The preparations of the harvest festival start a week before May. Families gather together to find their favourite plants and fruits. They put together bananas and coconuts in finely arranged fruit baskets. Coconut and banana leaves are taken to make beautiful arrangements to decorate the doors and entrances of houses and streets.
Best of flowers is knotted into gorgeous and colourful garlands that are hanged from the doors of the houses. Wheat and rice flour are used to make a decorative item which to are painted in different bright colours and hanged outside the houses. The harvested fields are decorated with the statue like structures which are dressed in the attire of farmers. These statues stand in different postures to describe how farmers worked hard in the fields to grow a healthy harvest.
After all these arrangements are done, a date for the harvest festival procession is decided. On this date, the farmers and their families gather together to pay their thanks to their patron for enabling them to reap a good harvest. Afterwards, the procession walks through the fields and streets of the town. Children in the procession pull and run away with the ornaments like garlands and flour dolls that hand outside the houses and they are ‘gifts’ for them. The entire of the festival is full of fun and colour. You will love attending every moment of it.
Food is served at its best during the festival, and as you take your cheap flights to the Philippines to attend the brilliant Harvest Festival rest assure that you will be having delicious and sumptuous cuisines. Fish is the most loved dish during the festival and is cooked in a traditional fashion giving it a very unique and fine taste.
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