Bacolod Public Plaza
‎Bacolod City, Philippines
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 Barney visits Bacolod
„The City of Smiles“ in the Philippines

Today our friend Dennis sent us pictures from Barney’s first visit to the Philippines. Thanx a lot also to Glen, who took care of Barney and joined him in these nice pictures showing his own smile 🙂

Bacolod City and the MassKara Festival

Every year the MassKara Festival, a kind of carnival parade and street dance  is held in Bacolod. The mask motif of the festival has changed from masks influenced by native Filipinos to those influenced by the Carnival of Venice and the Rio Carnival. Earlier masks were hand-painted and adorned with feathers, flowers and native beads, while contemporary masks feature plastic beads and sequins.

Glen is showing some of the masks for this festival.

This is how you wear a MassKara Mask

Beautiful masks

Showing another mask

Masskara Masks old native style

Facts about the MassKara festival
Facts about Bacolod, PH (German Language)
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