Month-long Panagbenga Festival in Baguio City starts

Baguio City's month-long flower festival Panagbenga started Saturday, with more than two million tourists both local and foreign expected to visit the City of Pines.

The celebration kicked off with a traditional Cordilleran dance called Pagsayaw sa Gangsa, GMA News TV's "Balita Pilipinas" reported. It was followed with a street dance parade and a drums and lyre competition among elementary school students.



 "We asked the organizers to make the activity worthwhile for visitors. We try to evolve the festivities every year," Anthony De Leon, Panagbenga 2014 committee chairman, was quoted as saying in the television report.

More than two million tourists are expected to attend on February 22 to 23, when the main highlights—a grand street dance and a float parade—will commence, the report noted.