http://www.visitmyphilippines.com/ RSS feed en-us Copyright (C) 2014 visitmyphilippines.com FESTIVALS KALIBO ATI-ATIHAN - Scene of yearly celebration in honor of Sto. Nino held every third week of January, popularly known worldwide as Ati-Atihan. So called because Aklanons, domestic and foreign tourists wipe soot on their faces and don ethnic paraphernalia and masquerade around town as Negritos and make merry and dance in the streets to the beat of ambulant ethnic troubadors. SPECIAL INTEREST POTTERY MAKING/POP RICE (AMPAW) MAKING, Lezo. The industries that have augmented the people's livelihood in this municipality. Residents near the river bank make clay pots and jars the old-fashioned way, as others engage in poprice making. Popularly known as "ampaw" in the local dialect is being processed from cooked rice, dried, deep fried with oil and sugar and then molded into the same sizes and dried slowly. http://visitmyphilippines.com/index.php?title=Aklan&func=all&pid=1596&Page=1&tbl=0&view=rss Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:59:11 +0800