For years, the celebration of the Feast of Sto. Nino has always been celebrated with pure dedication. Aklan is a destination for it has the Kalibo Ati-atihan every third Sunday of January and our hometown's Ibajay Ati-ati on the fourth Sunday.

VIVA FOR LIFE!

Ibajay, Aklan

January 19 -25. 2009

Almost all who came to welcome the Image of the Sto. Nino went into a frenzy of emotions as the image was carried out to the shouting costumed people calling out VIVA!!!

The cry of VIVA is about Life – it is thanksgiving and asking for good health, better living, fortune, asking for forgiveness or cleansing one's soul from the grime one has collected the past year. In my many years of celebrating the Ati-ati fiesta in Ibajay, Aklan, this has been my first time to try not to intoxicate my brain with alcohol in order to absorb the real meaning of the celebration. People tend to drink for it is a way to celebrate the "celebration" and because we had celebrated too much the real meaning of the feast has been obscured by the power of alcohol.

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The IMAGES OF THE FESTIVAL

An Everchanging Landscape

The cold wins of December and January brought the river back to where it should pass. Everytime we go back to Aklan, we always look forward to what nature has transformed in Kayama Beach and this time again, nature has not frustrate us.