A week-long Mardi Gras-like festival honouring Santo Niño consumes the island of Boracay for pre- and post- revelry. Ati-Atihan is the Philippines’ wildest Mardi Gras-like celebration, a week-long ...

Every January, Kalibo’s streets explode with color, music, and dance (Sadsad) as thousands of locals and visitors flock to witness the Kalibo Señor Sto. Niño Ati-Atihan Festival. But beyond the ...

KALIBO, Aklan—Every January, Filipinos all over the world celebrate the Ati-atihan Festival, which is primarily devoted to the Santo Niño, or Child Jesus. But unknown to the millennial or younger ...

DRUM AND DANCE The street-dancing contest of the Kalibo Ati-Atihan Festival draws dancers from 20 Ati tribes on Saturday. Shown here is a dancer holding an image of the Santo Niño as he leads his ...

Hala Bira! Pwera Pasma! Viva kay Señor Santo Niño! These chants along with the rhythmic sound of the drums and lyres reverberate the streets of Aklan capital town of Kalibo, all in honor of the child ...

Andrew Solidum recalls attending the Aklan Association’s Ati-Atihan festivals at Harmon cliffline and watching his cousins beat the drums in the 1980s. Curious, he took up the drums and started ...

KALIBO, AKLAN , Philippines —— There has been no reports of threats, but authorities have deployed a joint team of 900 men to secure this year’s Ati-Atihan Festival, which runs from January 9 to 15.

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. Vice President Sara Duterte on Sunday called on the public to celebrate the Ati-Atihan festival in Kalibo, Aklan with ...

Catholic Church leaders tried to bring religious sense to two of the country’s biggest festivals—Sinulog in Cebu and Ati-Atihan in Aklan—which had taken on a character detached from the solemnity that ...

Aklan Gov. Florencio T. Miraflores is ecstatic with another tourist attraction in his province, in addition to world-renowned Boracay and Ati-Atihan. He is hoping that the world-class woven piña ...