Parade of the Pigs, Phillipines

Posted by Jackie Hewett on Sat 14th June 2008 at 02:30 AM, Filed in Unusual Events,  June

This festival (Parada Ng Lechon) is definitely unusual!

In Balayan on the south coast of the Luzon (Phillipines) the night before the festival an anniversary ball is held at the town plaza when the ‘lechon queen’ is crowned.  Then, on the 24th June some 50 roasted suckling pigs are blessed in the name of St John the baptist (their patron saint).  The pigs are then paraded through the streets dressed in their finest (T’Shirts, ceremonial clothes, raincoats and sun glasses).  After the end of the parade the pigs are devoured in a feast (make sure you are hungry!). 

But be prepared to get wet as well as fed.  As the parade coincides with / marks the feast of John the Baptist and the theme of baptism spills (sic) over to this parade.  After lunch the town embarks on a huge water fight with water pistols and water thrown from moving cars.

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