• Hinagdanan Festival

    January 9 on the Philippines ⋅ ☁️ 84 °F

    Today was a really good day, full of many fails.
    We started out with a great plan to get our visas renewed at the airport, but as we left breakfast, we realized we forgot our passports. Back to the hotel for those, then on to the airport. Only to find out you can't get your visas renewed at that airport.
    Next, it was off to snorkle with the sardine balls on the other side of the island, but no sardines today.
    Well hey, there's a cave just up the road. Let's go see that. Nope, it's closed today because of a festival celebrating it. You would think with such bad luck, we would have been frustrated and disappointed, but not so much. We were still having a great day. It's like with the parking attendant told us. The good news, the parking for the cave is free today. The bad news, the cave is closed. He also told us about the festival going on later that day.
    We went to a beach swam in the ocean, and came back at three to watch the dancers, and see the costumes.
    It was a very interesting show. There were at least 10 different dance troops performing a tribute to the cave. Each troop at their own moves, but they were all to the same song.
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