City Fair and Mosques Architectural Exhibit 2013

February isn't just the month of love, it is also the month of our yearly Festival here in General Santos called Kalilangan.

During Kalilangan Festival, the city are being visited by a lot of tourists from different places of the Philippines and by people from different places of the world.

Kalilangan Festival caters the tradition and culture that our city has. The local government also provided a lot of KALINGAWAN (Cebuano language or term for the word - fun) for the people.

This is the ferris wheel ride.

The dragon coaster ride. 

Jelai having her coaster ride with Anica beside her. At the back: Liza and Alexa.

 Kids with the carousel ride. The girls in front, Liza and Kurt at the back.

Another kind of ride, the elephant. That's Anica right there.

There are some rides I haven't took a photo. But the fun doesn't end with the rides. It's time for our hungry stomachs to be fed.

Just outside the city fair rides are the food stations where some of the food will be cooked in front of you like the SUGBA (Local Heneral term for the word -- grill). However, we tried a different thing. We tried local  Muslim food called PASTIL. It has rice topped with either fish or chicken pre-sauted with some spices. Traditionally this is wrapped with fresh banana leaves. But this time, we requested to serve it on plate.  It is very affordable but very delicious.

Muslims were some of the first settlers in Mindanao. Mindanao is where you can find General Santos City. They participate during Kalilangan to show the culture of Islam. 

 While waiting for the food to be served, the kids had fun.

This is the pastil.

The most interesting part is, you have to eat it with you bare hands.

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A few days later, my college friends and I decided to meet somewhere to catch up with each other. We found ourselves appreciating the wonderful architectural designs of our Muslim brothers for their mosques here in the Philippines.

Art Exhibit: Masjid / Mosque

With my college friends: Loraine Fillalan, Jessa Mae Bayle and Shylah Mae Dugaduga (all licensed teachers working for public schools or government schools) 

 This is the person responsible for your tour here in General Santos City during Kalilangan Festival.

 Gretchen Cumayas, Loraine Fillalan, Jonee Slimwitch, Shylah Mae Dugaduga, Jessa Mae Bayle

 Loraine, Jonee, Shy, Jessa and Leah Tahil

And that ends our tour for today. Have fun!!! There will be more to come for Kalilangan Festival.