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Water buffalos as you have never seen them before
When:
May 2009 (annual)
Where:
Pulilan
See a water buffalo as you have never seen it before - oiled, shaved and generally ornamented - during the Pulilan Carabao Festival.
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San Isidro Labrador is the patron-saint of farmers and is revered in momentous style during this strange festival in Pulilan. On the first day of the festival, the otherwise moderately respected (and very dirty) carabao (water buffalo) is made king for a day. Families gather round their carabao, scrape off the mud the buffaloes have rolled in, and even smarten them up by shaving their hair. The clean pink flesh is then massaged with aromatic oil and dressed in crowns of frangipani and hibiscus!
Every family then proudly brings their anointed buffaloes to the church square in a fabulous procession of floats and trucks decorated with flowers, fruit and vegetables of every colour imaginable. The priests then ask the buffaloes to kneel and bless them, ensuring their good health and vitality for the coming year.
Watching them return to the mud is good fun too!
Every family then proudly brings their anointed buffaloes to the church square in a fabulous procession of floats and trucks decorated with flowers, fruit and vegetables of every colour imaginable. The priests then ask the buffaloes to kneel and bless them, ensuring their good health and vitality for the coming year.
Watching them return to the mud is good fun too!
Event details can change.
Please check with the organisers that the event is happening before making travel arrangements.
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