Ati-Atihan is the Philippines’ wildest Mardi Gras-like celebration, a week-long street party in Kalibo that rages from dawn to dusk, peaking on the third Sunday in January. Honouring Santo Niño ...

KALIBO, Aklan—Every January, Filipinos all over the world celebrate the Ati-atihan Festival, which is primarily devoted to the Santo Niño, or Child Jesus. But unknown to the millennial or ...

Days before the celebration of Ati-Atihan Festival 2025, the Municipality of Kalibo released the full list of activities for residents and tourists. From January 10 to 19, the province of Aklan will ...

Andrew Solidum recalls attending the Aklan Association’s Ati-Atihan festivals at Harmon cliffline and watching his cousins beat the drums in the 1980s. Curious, he took up the drums and started ...

ILOILO CITY, Iloilo, Philippines — Kalibo, the capital town of Aklan, welcomed back the show of colorful costumes on paint-covered street dancers and cheering residents and foreign spectators as ...

Malay Mayor Floribar Bautista says the high turnout has inspired the local government to elevate the Boracay Ati-atihan as a major tourism attraction for the resort island, starting next year AKLA ...

Niño Ati-Atihan festival. Amid tighter security measures, a record 30 tribes (up from 27 last year) competed in four dance categories on Saturday—eight in “Big,” six in “Small,” nine in ...

Kalibo’s Ati-atihan gets a real boost with President Arroyo as guest this weekend. That is a welcome gesture since Kalibo still has to live down last year’s bloody rampage that killed nine ...

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A week-long Mardi Gras-like festival honouring Santo Niño consumes the island of Boracay for pre- and post- revelry. Ati-Atihan is the Philippines’ wildest Mardi Gras-like celebration, a week ...

Days before the celebration of Ati-Atihan Festival 2025, the Municipality of Kalibo released the full list of activities for residents and tourists. From January 10 to 19, the province of Aklan ...