Headed over to the mainland and took a bus to Kalibo to check out the ‘Kalibo Sto.Nino Ati-Atihan’ Festival. This happens every January and all of the tribes turn up in their traditional dress with fantastic floats and parade in the streets of Kalibo. These festivals happen all over the Philippines at different times but this is supposedly one of the biggest. Unfortunately the weather was miserable but we still managed to dance along with them for most of the day and in between we found a dry spot in the centre of the town square for warm coffee and sandwiches. It was here that we met Noel Cababo, a journalist for Manila and had a great time just chatting with him about his work, the festival and his perspective on many Philippine issues. That evening we came back and had a good meal in a restaurant called Christina’s. Some of us had eyes bigger than our bellies as the servings were huge and couldn’t be finished! We had to walk off the meal so we walked along the beach to the furthest point south and discovered a little natural cave/arch out into the ocean right at the end of the beach. We also discovered that this part of the beach was a lot quieter than where we were staying.
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