{"id":181,"date":"2016-12-22T08:43:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T08:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mabuhaytravel.co.uk\/?p=181"},"modified":"2016-12-22T08:43:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T08:43:41","slug":"leading-unique-filipino-christmas-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mabuhaytravel.uk\/blog\/leading-unique-filipino-christmas-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Unique Filipino Christmas Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Planning a<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mabuhaytravel.uk\/holidays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Philippine holiday<\/strong><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">during Christmas time is simply amazing. Christmas in this destination begins on Christmas Day itself and its culmination on the Feast of the Magi. A Philippine Christmas is the most extended commemoration of the Messiah\u2019s birth on Earth. It is always packed with different shades, lights, songs, dances, food and drinks for the celebration.\u00a0 As well as these: joy, kindness, forgiveness and giving. \u00a0Here are the top unique Filipino Christmas Traditions you should know about.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Government and private firm workers get their commission and extra things like a box of Noche Buena tidbits, red wines and a bric-a-brac of memento products.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A truce is maintained and commemorated among conflicting sets in some areas of the country even for a while prior to and following Christmas.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">People, families or groups with related, work or government space make hugs-and-kisses and forgive-and-forget the bygone.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The next-door people and even unknown people receive Merry Christmas honestly with a smile.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Personal companies, firms and people who choose to stay unnamed or unidentified arrive at orphanages, clinics, prisons, government health centres and ghetto region to bring joy and presents of food, toys, candies, Bibles, clothes, clutches, wheelchairs and medication in the big trucks.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Individuals do volunteer work such as babysitting so a friend could do her shopping, repairing the nozzle or fixing up the roof of a neighbour\u2019s house and so on.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kids are extremely cheerful due to the fact that they are in their best clothes and shoes on this day. They pay regard by kissing the hands of their godparents, grandparents, uncles and aunts and acknowledge them for the customary presents of cash and toys.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Churches, schools, administrative and company structures, freeways, roads, avenues, overpasses, houses, gardens, trees and electrical poles are brilliantly decorated with all types of Christmas lamps, Christmas lights and other ornaments and embellishments.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Elders, too, are cheerful because their family from far off locations visit them with presents.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Christmas singing and Christmas carols on the radio refresh the atmosphere.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bibingkang galapong and puto bumbong that flourish in various sites in regions and cities on the instance of the coming of Christmas tally to the Christmas time cheery atmosphere.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are road performances on Christmas Eve in various locations in the metropolis.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Churches are packed with people on the Eve of Christmas and the entire day of the 25<sup>th<\/sup> of December.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Families congregate for the Noche Buena spread on Christmas Eve which is continually the instance to open their Christmas presents.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Philippine weather is excellent which is a plus point for kids to make their rounds of Christmas visits to their godparents and relations places.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is said that the delight of Christmas is only for the kids.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is a fact for them during their Philippine holidays. \u00a0It is their most vibrant and cheerful day in the year.\u00a0 Contrary to mild sector countries, where kids stay indoors because of the cold and freezing weather.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is unusual though in Australia.\u00a0 Families stay and spend Christmas on the beach due to it been summer in this country.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mabuhaytravel.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Christmas-hats.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-189 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mabuhaytravel.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Christmas-hats.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas hats\" width=\"780\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planning a Philippine holiday during Christmas time is simply amazing. Christmas in this destination begins on Christmas Day itself and its culmination on the Feast of the Magi. A Philippine Christmas is the most extended commemoration of the Messiah\u2019s birth on Earth. It is always packed with different shades, lights, songs, dances, food and drinks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,96,97],"tags":[73,81],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philippines-holidays","category-travel-news-philippines","category-travel-tips-philippines","tag-holidays","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mabuhaytravel.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mabuhaytravel.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mabuhaytravel.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mabuhaytravel.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mabuhaytravel.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mabuhaytravel.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mabuhaytravel.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mabuhaytravel.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mabuhaytravel.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mabuhaytravel.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}