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    1. The document describes several attractions and festivals found in Camarines Sur province, Philippines. It discusses the Our Lady of Peñafrancia Church, Adiangao Cave, Sabang Beach, and Caramoan as popular tourist destinations that offer beautiful natural scenery and religious sites. 2. Five annual festivals are also summarized: Tinagba Festival celebrates the rice harvest in Iriga City in February; Karanowan Festival honors the fish of Lake Bato in February; Kamundagan Festival in Naga City features various events throughout December; Bamboo Festival celebrates the bamboo industry in Bula in December; and the Peñafrancia Festival honors the Virgin of Peñaf

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    1. The document describes several attractions and festivals found in Camarines Sur province, Philippines. It discusses the Our Lady of Peñafrancia Church, Adiangao Cave, Sabang Beach, and Caramoan as popular tourist destinations that offer beautiful natural scenery and religious sites. 2. Five annual festivals are also summarized: Tinagba Festival celebrates the rice harvest in Iriga City in February; Karanowan Festival honors the fish of Lake Bato in February; Kamundagan Festival in Naga City features various events throughout December; Bamboo Festival celebrates the bamboo industry in Bula in December; and the Peñafrancia Festival honors the Virgin of Peñaf

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    1. The document describes several attractions and festivals found in Camarines Sur province, Philippines. It discusses the Our Lady of Peñafrancia Church, Adiangao Cave, Sabang Beach, and Caramoan as popular tourist destinations that offer beautiful natural scenery and religious sites. 2. Five annual festivals are also summarized: Tinagba Festival celebrates the rice harvest in Iriga City in February; Karanowan Festival honors the fish of Lake Bato in February; Kamundagan Festival in Naga City features various events throughout December; Bamboo Festival celebrates the bamboo industry in Bula in December; and the Peñafrancia Festival honors the Virgin of Peñaf

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    1. The document describes several attractions and festivals found in Camarines Sur province, Philippines. It discusses the Our Lady of Peñafrancia Church, Adiangao Cave, Sabang Beach, and Caramoan as popular tourist destinations that offer beautiful natural scenery and religious sites. 2. Five annual festivals are also summarized: Tinagba Festival celebrates the rice harvest in Iriga City in February; Karanowan Festival honors the fish of Lake Bato in February; Kamundagan Festival in Naga City features various events throughout December; Bamboo Festival celebrates the bamboo industry in Bula in December; and the Peñafrancia Festival honors the Virgin of Peñaf

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    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.

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