Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Panagbenga 2009 : Jeers, Cheers and Beers

Three of the floats who made their mark in this year's Panagbenga Float Parade where from Abanao Square, Jollibee and San Miguel Beer.

Abanao Square is a local mall in Baguio City and a consistent participant in the parade. This year, the theme of their float is a clown and their float was accompanied by clowns who do tricks before the crowd.


Of course, everyone knows Jollibee - touted as the new Santa Clause. This year, Jollibee float was rather simple with a young Igorot joining Jollibee on top of their float.

The San Miguel Beer Float featured a giant pale pilsen made of flowers with real bottles of SMB used to adorn the float. Alyssa Alano of "Keys Me" fame stars in their float.

With these three participants, the celebration continued with jeers, cheers and beers!

Abanao's Clown Doing a Juggling Act


Another Abanao Clown Waving at the Crowd


Abanao's Clown On a Stilt Showing Before the Lensmen


Jollibee Float


Everyones' Favorite Mascot


San Miguel Beer Float


Let's Drink To That

22 took the journey:

luna miranda said...

the clown is much more colorful. love your photo of a clown on stilts. beautiful colors all around.

Borneo Falcon said...

Love the beer!

Esther Garvi said...

Ha, the colours are next to surreal! What an experience it must have been!

bw said...

nice shots... very colorful festival !

Gata Verde said...

Festival de flores...lindo!!

vinzent said...

Very colorful festival. The first photo is so nice.

fortuitous faery said...

love the post title...sounds (and looks) like a fun fiesta, but with flowers! and where there's a pinoy party/fiesta, there's san miguel beer! :P

Vanessa said...

Kasama pala si Boyoyong. I will definitely go there next year.

the donG said...

dami pala talagang floats. saya ng panagbenga. photogrpahers haven.

Jacqueline said...

I love the colors of your festival. Seems fun everywhere.

Photo Cache said...

I would have liked to see Jollibee mascot in a bahag :D

HalfCrazy said...

I somehow passed by your place again. Now I'm gonna follow you so I'll be updated with your blogs hahaha.

WOW, beautiful!

I especially adore the San Mig Beer float! So awesome! Now I want to go there! I never really knew it could be that awesome!

Juz said...

so vibrantly cool!

uber nice ung SMB...

Fickleminded said...

Great shots. Enjoyed your series so far.

Nadia said...

Pretty.

Uno said...

Nice title. Cheers and Beers lang kumpleto na kasiyahan.

Nanaybelen said...

artistic naman. kuhang kuha ang pagkagawa ng beer .
Nice shots attorney. nakakainganyo ang magbakasyon sa Baguio.

REDLAN said...

May libreng beer din ba?

EM said...

wow...the designs are getting intricate and elaborate. just thinking about all those flowers being cut... sana most of them are made from paper.

amazing shots! thanks for sharing

Shey said...

Great shots! Last Panagbenga festival ko was way back 1998, when I was visiting Davao.

They have very colorful floats. Thanks for sharing!

Marco said...

this is cool!

juleste said...

wow SMB! parang nauhaw tuloy ako :-)