Cavite City Regada Water Festival
June 14, 200710 more days and Cavite City turns wet & wild, again!
Regada Festival
June 22- 29 : Cavite City (Regada Proper - June 24th)It has been a yearly tradition to celebrate the Cavite City Water Festival more popularly known as “REGADA” every June. The annual tourism oriented festival has evolved into a combined environmental, religious and cultural activity. More so, the month of June is significant in Cavite City’s history for its lasting contribution to Philippine independence and history.
“BE PREPARED TO GET WET,” warned Cavite City’s local officials to the guests and visitors of their Annual Water Festival. A wet and wild festival awaits tourist and other visitors when they come to the historic city to celebrate the feast of St. John the Baptist.
“Regada” was derived the spanish word “regar” from the chavacano speaking Cavitenos, which means water or to sprinkle. In a bid to hold the biggest water festival, Regada, will be staged in the one kilometer stretch along P. Burgos Avenue. The main thorougfare will be rigged with sprinklers and mobile sound system to transform P. Burgos Avenue into what could be the biggest wet party in the country.
Students and townfolks will fill the avenue to participate in the wet street dancing dubbed as “Basayawan sa Kalye”. The participants will interpret the essence of the yearly water festival through colorful costumes and body movements and dance to the music provided by the giant mobile sound systems installed along P. Burgos Avenue.
The festival culminates with the holding of Caracol ni San Juan Bautista at around 11 o’clock in the moring, a fitting climax to the festival’s origin in honor of St. John the Baptist in which people celebrate for the blessing by joining the “Paulan”.
Regada started in 1996 during the tenure of the Mayor Tim Encarnacion and from then on, was held every year thereon during the month of June.
source: http://www.lakbaypilipinas.com/
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kind of excited for this event! :lol:
joyce ira | June 15, 2007kind of excited for this event!
wey!! lingo ang Regada! ^_^ :mrgreen: S yet, ampayat ko
fionixe | June 15, 2007wey!! lingo ang Regada! ^_^
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yet, ampayat ko pa nung 2005…
:roll: pede bang sumama... ulit? :lol:
jhamez | June 19, 2007sayang may pasok ako sa June 24 :(
DarkBlak | June 20, 2007sayang may pasok ako sa June 24
jhamez punta lang!
poell | June 21, 2007jhamez punta lang!
Ang saya saya....sana next year marami pang banda para mas
ariel | June 24, 2007Ang saya saya….sana next year marami pang banda para mas masaya…..
who are you guys??????? that 2006 top middle
"Mr. White on Whites" AKA "the boy wonder" AKA "I'm the 1 that yo momma warned you about" AKA "I got an "S" on my chest" | June 25, 2007who are you guys??????? that 2006 top middle picture, i used to live around that area “THAT’S MY HOOD”, i was there last november. Last time i celebrated regada was back in 00′.