Philippines' colourful festival
A pig is roasted during a festival in Balayan, Batangas province, south of Manila to celebrate the feast of St John the Baptist. Roasted pigs decked out as superheroes and mud-coated farmers paraded in Philippine villages to mark some of the Catholic nation's most colourful religious festivals and several thousand revellers marched behind mini-trucks carrying roasted hogs through Balayan, with bystanders periodically dousing the raucous procession with buckets of water. (AFP PHOTO)
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A pig is roasted during a festival in Balayan, Batangas province, south of Manila to celebrate the feast of St John the Baptist. Roasted pigs decked out as superheroes and mud-coated farmers paraded in Philippine villages to mark some of the Catholic nation's most colourful religious festivals and several thousand revellers marched behind mini-trucks carrying roasted hogs through Balayan, with bystanders periodically dousing the raucous procession with buckets of water. (AFP PHOTO)
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Water from the local firebrigade is showered on residents during traditional St John the Baptist Feast Day celebrations in San Juan city, metro Manila. (REUTERS)
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A man shields his baby from water being showered by firefighters and residents during St. John the Baptist Feast Day celebrations in San Juan city, metro Manila. (REUTERS)
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Residents, covered with dried banana leaves and mud, take part in a religious ritual known locally as "Taong Putik" (Mud People), while attending a mass to celebrate the Catholic feast day of Saint John the Baptist in the village of Bibiclat, Nueva Ecija, north of Manila. (REUTERS)
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