Camarines Sur

Festivals:
1. Our Lady of Peñafrancia Church – The church was built in 1711
by the orders of Rev. Miguel Covarrubias and the second church
was built by Bishop Isidro de Arevalo in 1750. It also houses the
image of Our Lady Peñafrancia. This is a nice place to visit to pray
and admire the architecture of the church.

2. Adiangao Cave – This cave is located in Barangay Adiangao, has

a 300-meter canopy that are stretching onto the mountains of
Calinigan. It contains stalactite, stalagmites, dripstones and
enormous columns and huge pillars to the ceiling.

3. Sabang Beach – The beach is located in the coastal barangay

of San Jose. A lot of tourists make this place as an optional
stopover to Caramoan Peninsula. During the last week of April,
Sabang hosts the yearly Malasagui Festival which consists of
fishing competitions like catching the fastest or biggest fish on
that day.
4. Caramoan – This would probably the most beautiful place in
CamSur. Caramoan offers picturesque landscape and seascape and
numerous islands and islets are also just a boat ride away.
Caramoan became popular because of numerous Survivor shows
that were filmed here.

5. Kalupnitan Cave – The caves are one of the natural beauties in

Bicol. They contain natural carved pillars and stalactite
formations that are very magnificent in its interiors and millions
of bats.

Festivals:
1. Tinagba Festival – it is held at February 11 in Iriga City. A
tradition of the first harvest offering coinciding on the feast day
of Our Lady of Lourdes. Derived from the early rituals of the
ancient Bicolanos offering their harvest to their own gods as a
form of thanksgiving and to seek favor for a more bountiful
harvest throughout the year. A long parade of colorfully and
grandiosely decorated bull and carabao carts, carrying newly
harvested crops, ending with a mass before the Emerald Grotto
at Calvary Hills. Here all the offerings are blessed, then
distributed to indigent families.

2. Karanowan Festival – it is held at Feb. 15 in Bato. This fish-tival

was derived from a local dialect "Ranow" meaning lake, spawned of
giving significance to the beautiful Lake Bato, which is teemed
with numerous species of fishes such as the well-known "tabios",
tilapia nilotica, carp, eel and many others.

3. Kamundagan Festival – it is held at the month of December in

Naga City. A month-long activity during the month of December in
celebration of the Advent season. Belen contests, trade fairs,
regatta, carabao race, Miss Naga City Beauty Pageant and
tricycle race are some of the activities featured during the
festival.

4. Bamboo Festival – is held at December 1 in Bula. Old Bula

town in the Rinconada district of the province makes way for a
colorful December celebration of the Bamboo Festival, giving way
to the one of pride of this town which is the bamboo plant where
the name of the municipality is derived from.

5. Peñafrancia Festival is held at the 3rd week of September

in Naga City. A religious festival honoring the feast day of Our
Lady of Peñafrancia, Patroness of the Bicol Region. The festivity
begins on the second Friday of September when the Image of the
Virgin of Peñafrancia is carried by hundreds of male devotees
from her shrine to Naga Cathedral. Main highlight is the
ceremonial fluvial procession along the Naga River where her
centuries old image becomes an object of a stirring religious
event.