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, ...

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 ...

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—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 ...

ILOILO CITY—The sounds of drums and lyres peaked over the weekend in the streets of Kalibo, capital town of Aklan province, in celebration of this year’s Sto. Niño Ati-Atihan festival. Amid tighter ...

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 ...

Days before the celebration of Ati-Atihan Festival 2025, the Municipality of Kalibo released the full list of activities for residents and tourists. From January 10 to 19, the province of Aklan will ...

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 ...