2011 Lucban San Isidro Pahiyas Festival

**dolina** · 05-17-2011, 09:33 AM

The feast of San Isidro Labrador is celebrated in many a farming town in the Philippines. But if you’re after the truly festive and colorful, you must head on over to Lucban in Quezon for the San Isidro Pahiyas Festival.

The Pahiyas in Lucban has the reputation of being the fiesta to end all fiestas. Tourists and locals alike flock to this small town at the foot of Mt. Banahaw to enjoy the extravagant displays of the bountiful harvest (the payas or pahiyas) in the houses that line the procession route.

The decorations are a form of thanksgiving to San Isidro and it is said that houses along the route will be favored and blessed in the coming year. The homeowner’s livelihood dictates what goes on display. A rice farmer will have chandeliers of kiping (ground rice powder formed into leaves and tinted in bright colors) along with rice stalks and grains on the façade.

Source: Pahiyas Festival in Lucban, Philippines - Philippines Pahiyas Festival

2011 Lucban San Isidro Pahiyas Festival by alabang, on Flickr

**wildfuzz** · 05-17-2011, 10:26 PM

nice pix bai dolina.............

**dolina** · 05-18-2011, 05:55 AM

thank you wild!

2011 Lucban San Isidro Pahiyas Festival by alabang, on Flickr

**dolina** · 05-19-2011, 04:37 AM

2011 Lucban San Isidro Pahiyas Festival by alabang, on Flickr

**dolina** · 05-21-2011, 12:37 PM

2011 Lucban San Isidro Pahiyas Festival by alabang, on Flickr

**dolina** · 05-23-2011, 05:10 PM

2011 Lucban San Isidro Pahiyas Festival by alabang, on Flickr

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