Trisikad Race La Carlota Pasalamat Best

Arvit, the winner

One of the entertaining fun in La Carlota Pasalamat Festival is Trisikad (pedicab) race.

Interested drivers of trisikad in the neighboring municipalities and the residents of La Carlota are joining in trisikad race, spanning a 5 laps around the plaza.

This is one the highlights in the annual celebration of La Carlota Pasalamat Festival which is usually held every last week of April nearest of May 1.

It is a thanksgiving festivity of the people of La Carlota. A week-long merry-making of thanking the Heavenly Father for the blessing of bounty harvest which the farmer and the residents of La Carlota have received for the year.

La Carlota Pasalamat Grand Arena Dance Competition

Forty-one days more to go for the La Carlota Annual Pasalamat Festival.

Grand Arena Dance Competition is one of the highlights in this week-long merrymaking.

More than 20 tribu (tribes) usually have enlisted to participate in this people-jammed-packed contest inside the festival park.

This is the group or Tribu Tres on their best grand arena dancing skills.

Live drum-beating to the sound of samba beat accompanied these more than 30 dancers.

The competition usually starts at 3:00 p.m. and lasts till 8:00 p.m., more or less five hours for 20 competing tribes one at a time.

What are you waiting for? Let's go La Carlota and get lost in the crowd comes the last week of April this 2012.

La Carlota Teachers Out To Streets Pawasak Dancing

Teachers and employees of La Carlota Division, Department of Education (DepEd) participated in the pawasak (anything goes) dance street merrymaking to usher the formal opening salvo of La Carlota Pasalamat week-long festival.

Twenty-three elementary schools and three secondary schools sent in their teachers street dancers to share their dancing prowess and enjoy to the samba beat of La Carlota Pasalamat music introduced by the late City Mayor Luis "Nonoy" Jalandoni, Jr.