CAMIGUIN (PIA) — San Juan sa Hibok-Hibok Competition 2024, organized by the provincial authorities, featured sports activities competitions, discos, swimming, volleyball tournaments, races, native delicacies, video games, and a conventional fluvial procession.
Held on June 22-24, the occasion kicked off with sports activities competitions showcasing native expertise, adopted by a night disco that introduced collectively residents and guests alike for an evening of dancing and pleasure.
Members sparred on bamboo poles at Lagundi Seashore, Poblacion, Mambajao, Camiguin through the celebration of the 2024 San Juan sa Hibok-Hibok Competition 2024. (Photograph courtesy of PGO Camiguin)
“Mao na atong opening ceremony, after which sports activities occasions. Nag-start diay ang sports activities occasion, diha ang elimination spherical. Ang atong occasion ana is interagency, women and men, seashore volleyball match. After which pagkagabii dayon disco didto sa atong Lagundi Lined Courtroom,” stated Noe Palad of the Camiguin Tourism Workplace.
(That’s our opening ceremony, after which sports activities occasions. The sports activities occasion has begun, and the subsequent step is the elimination spherical. Our seashore volleyball match is an interagency occasion for women and men. After which within the night, there’s a disco at our Lagundi Lined Courtroom.)
Individuals gathered early within the morning for the thanksgiving mass to start the ultimate day of the pageant, adopted by a conventional fluvial procession that highlighted Camiguin’s maritime heritage.
Numerous nationwide line companies participated within the San Juan sa Hibok-Hibok Competition 2024 Inter-Company Males’s Seashore Volleyball Event Elimination Spherical. (Photograph courtesy of PGO Camiguin)
The Nice Hibok-Hibok Race was a spotlight, that includes Scubasurero, Baroto Race, and Bamboo Boxing. These are underwater cleanup efforts and conventional boat races, showcasing each native traditions and environmental consciousness efforts.
Residents gathered on the Pista Sa Nayon on the pageant grounds to get pleasure from native delicacies and crafts, whereas pleasant competitions and conventional video games added to the festive ambiance. The occasion concluded with an Aqua Rave Social gathering, the place attendees danced and celebrated collectively late into the night time.
A complete of 45 athletes took on the problem of the open water through the San Juan sa Hibok-Hibok Competition 2024 Open Water Swimming Competitors. (Photograph courtesy of PGO Camiguin)
The winners of Mr. and Ms. Hibok-Hibok 2024 had been Icole Vener Guillen and Rika Ann Popera Alido.
Palad stated the pageant goals to advertise cultural heritage and group spirit, showcase native expertise, enhance tourism, encourage environmental consciousness, have fun achievements, improve social interplay, strengthen traditions, assist the native economic system, and promote well being and wellness by encouraging lively participation in sports activities and bodily actions. (ABR/PIA-10)
Members from numerous nationwide authorities companies and native authorities models in Camiguin joined the Nice Hibok-Hibokan Race through the 2024 San Juan sa Hibok-Hibok Competition. (Photograph courtesy of PGO Camiguin)