Panagbenga Festival 2015

 2015 will mark the 20th Panagbenga Festival, this will be a big event not only for the City of Baguio but also for the nearby municipalities and provinces.

Activities to start on February 1st and will last until the 8th of March 2015.

February 1, 2015 - Opening Ceremony with street dancing (Panagbenga Park to Baguio Athletic Bowl)

February 1 - 15, 2015 - Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition (Lake Drive)

February 15, 2015 - Variety Show and Kite Flying (Melvin Jones)

February 19, 2015 - Chinese Spring Festival (City Wide)

February 20 - 22, 2015 - PMA Grand Alumni Homecoming (PMA Loakan Road)

February 23 - 27, 2015 - Landscaping Competition 

February 28, 2015 - Grand Street Dancing Parade

March 1, 2015 - Grand Float Parade

March 1 - 8, 2015 - Session Road in Bloom

March 7, 2015 - Pony Boys' Day (Baguio Athletic Bowl)

March 8, 2015 - Closing Ceremony and Grand Fireworks Display (Baguio Athletic Bowl)

Lakay-Lakay and Baket-Baket

According to the legend - Once upon a time, there was a family who made fortune by fishing, and then one day came an old tramp who begged for food from Lakay-Lakay and Baket-Baket. Since they are like the "fishing magnate" in the village, they acted high and mighty that they pay no attention to the lament of the pitiful, old beggar, no matter what. Swollen with greed the couple were, the strange, old tramp foredoomed their family. As the strange, old tramp vanish into thin air, the couple became uneasy and hurriedly looked for their child who happened to be playing on the other side of the coast. Slowly, their child turned to a mass of rock. Baket-Baket gradually turned to rock as well, and before Lakay-Lakay  realized he's sorry, he himself was turned. This is why Lakay-Lakay and Baket-Baket stood each at other in Taggat while their child, Ubing-Ubing was on Sentinela Cove. 

These extraordinary rock formations in Claveria are dubbed as the sentinel of the fisher folks of the town, it symbolizes the great morals of sharing and compassion, despite the fact that Lakay-Lakay, Baket-Baket and Ubing-Ubing was given a harsh anecdote.