Panagbenga Festival organizer: Expect events every day for next five weeks

This month, tourists to the Summer Capital of the Philippines will experience more than Baguio City's cold temperatures as the "season of blooming"—the Panagbenga Festival—begins.

Baguio Flower Festival Foundation Inc. co-chairman Federico Alquiros said in a report on GMA News TV's News To Go that aired on Monday that visitors should expect events in Baguio City for the entire duration of Panagbenga, the city's annual flower festival.

"The entire community of Baguio—all barangays, all private sectors, all government [agencies], lahat po—nagko-contribute. And they put in their little activities and their little schedules into these five weeks para po talagang every week, every day, meron pong nangyayari," he said during the festival's kick-off ceremonies on Sunday.

For the entire five weeks of the event, there will be a Baguio Bloom Exhibition and Exposition at the Lake Drive in Burnham Park. Festival goers can also enjoy kite-flying challenges, variety shows and concerts, floral arrangement and landscape competitions, parades, and firework displays.

On its 20th year, the Panagbenga Festival 2015 is celebrating the theme, "Across 20 Years, Blossoming Together."



If you're planning to catch the activities in Baguio during its "season of blooming," make sure you're ready to fight way through the two million tourists who are expected to watch the Grand Street Dancing Parade on February 28 and the Grand Float Parade on March 1.

For its opening bonanza last Sunday, 12 schools joined the elementary division of the Drum and Lyre Dance Competition. — Trisha Macas/BM, GMA News