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 AKLAN, ...

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-long ...

KALIBO, Aklan (PIA) — Thirty-four contingents will compete for higher cash prizes for this year’s Kalibo Sadsad Ati-atihan Contest. The Kalibo Sadsad Ati-atihan Contest, one of the must-watch events ...

KALIBO, Aklan (PIA) — The local government of Kalibo is all set for this year’s Kalibo Señor Santo Niño Ati-atihan Festival on January 20-21. The week leading to the third Sunday of January, Aklan’s ...

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 younger ...

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 ...

KALIBO, Philippines – Aklanons abroad are celebrating their annual Ati-atihan Festival on January 10, organizers said. The Aklanon Sto. Niňo Association are organizing what his hoped to be the ...

KALIBO, AKLAN—Hernany Lao lined up along with hundreds of devotees at the St. John the Baptist Cathedral here. When his turn came, a lay worker placed the feet of a six-inch wooden image of the Child ...

Catholic Church leaders tried to bring religious sense to two of the country’s biggest festivals—Sinulog in Cebu and Ati-Atihan in Aklan—which had taken on a character detached from the solemnity that ...

Aklan Gov. Florencio T. Miraflores is ecstatic with another tourist attraction in his province, in addition to world-renowned Boracay and Ati-Atihan. He is hoping that the world-class woven piña ...

Among the revived Ati-Atihan traditions in 2023 are face-to-face street dancing, the public chanting of Viva kay Senyor Santo Niño, and the Palapak, a tradition where church volunteers massage ...