HomeBacolod Masskara Festival 2010The City of Smiles, Bacolod City, will once again pulsate with the latin beat and throb with the colorful and fun spirit of the Masskara Festival this October 2010. The highlights of the Masskara 2010 will be on October 17Â to 19 and will feature a co By Marcos Detourista on August 31, 2010The City of Smiles, Bacolod City, will once again pulsate with the latin beat and throb with the colorful and fun spirit of the Masskara Festival this October 2010. The highlights of the Masskara 2010 will be on October 17Â to 19 and will feature a competition among various dance groups clad in very colorful costumes.MassKara is coined from two words: Mass, which means “many, or multitude,” and Kara, a Spanish word for “face,” thus MassKara is a mass or multitude of smiling faces.Bacolod Masskara Festival 2010 Schedule October 1, 2010 – Opening of the Festival Site (Public Plaza,SM MassKara Village October 9, 2010 – MassKara Queen (University of St. La Salle Coliseum) October 15, 2010 -Â Electric MassKara (Tourism Strip, Lacson St.) October 16, 2010 – MassKara Street Dance Competition – School Category (Araneta St. to Public Plaza Electric MassKara (Tourism Strip, Lacson St.) October 17, 2010 – MassKara Street Dance Competition – Barangay Category (Araneta St. to Public Plaza) October 18, 2010 -Â Countdown to the Charter Day Giant Street Party Celebration (New Government Center) October 19, 2010 – 73rd Charter Day AnniversaryDaily fastcrafts or fast ferries ply the Iloilo City (Muelle Loney River Wharf) to Bacolod City (BREDCO Port). Travel time is 45 minutes to one hour. There are also roll-on roll-off (RORO) vessels or slow ferries plying the Dumangas Port to Bacolod City (BREDCO Port) daily. The van terminal going to Dumangas is located at Baldoza Terminal in La Paz, Iloilo City. Travel time from Iloilo City to Dumangas is 20 minutes and from Dumangas Port to Bacolod via RORO, it is around two and a half hours.Don’t leave yet. There’s more!Leave a Reply Cancel replyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment *Name * Email * Website ΔThis site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.Comments exploredumaguete saysDecember 8, 2010 at 5:13 pmparehos pala ng dates yung masskara festival dyan at ng Buglasan Festival ng Dumaguete! Hi I invite all the readers of this beautiful website to visit dumaguete din. Check out this site for a lot of useful info including a free map! http://www.exploredumaguete.blogspot.comthanks explore iloilo!Reply Mattwilkie saysOctober 11, 2010 at 2:46 amGreat photo very clear.. bit late in the week to find the article mind will have to wait until next year to go. What is accommodation like in the area? How busy does the festival get as I know here in Cebu even with the smaller festivals everything becomes chaos when they are on.Reply Jasper Jugan saysSeptember 20, 2010 at 5:04 pmlapit na!Reply thomas saysSeptember 1, 2010 at 4:24 pmthanks for posting the details!Reply
exploredumaguete saysDecember 8, 2010 at 5:13 pmparehos pala ng dates yung masskara festival dyan at ng Buglasan Festival ng Dumaguete! Hi I invite all the readers of this beautiful website to visit dumaguete din. Check out this site for a lot of useful info including a free map! http://www.exploredumaguete.blogspot.comthanks explore iloilo!Reply
Mattwilkie saysOctober 11, 2010 at 2:46 amGreat photo very clear.. bit late in the week to find the article mind will have to wait until next year to go. What is accommodation like in the area? How busy does the festival get as I know here in Cebu even with the smaller festivals everything becomes chaos when they are on.Reply