Leading up to Sunday, they have beauty pagents, drum competitions and vendors covering the town plaza.
Sunday is the BIG day.
They start the day with a parade of all of the tribes or barangays.They have drums, dancers and beauty queens.
In the photos above notice my nice clean face.
After we watched the parade and went to church, we met at Fleurs for lunch. Now just so you know why the faces are black. It is tradition during the festival on Sunday to paint your faces black, now you can either do it yourself or the locals will gladly do it for you.It looks like Kesh and Geoff had a little painting done!
After a yummy lunch we headed to the town plaza for the tribal competition. Lots of tribes, 15 in all. Loud drums and great costumes and dancing. The handsome man in the corner of this photo is Efriam. He was our trusted driver at all hours of the morning and night and he got us VIP seats for the competition!
Kevin and I escaped many attempts at face painting. We actually made it to church without any incidents. But as we walked to the plaza for the competition, we had a few who wanted to paint the tall white americans, so we let them. That was the top picture. We left the competition before it was quite over and got mobbed! We ended up looking like the bottom picture. yuck!
Kevin and I escaped many attempts at face painting. We actually made it to church without any incidents. But as we walked to the plaza for the competition, we had a few who wanted to paint the tall white americans, so we let them. That was the top picture. We left the competition before it was quite over and got mobbed! We ended up looking like the bottom picture. yuck!This was one of those experiences where once in a lifetime is enough!
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Maybe it wasn't such a good idea for dad to wear a white shirt?!
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