CHRISTMAS IN PHILIPPINES IS BEAUTIFUL! Visiting Giant Lantern FESTIVAL in Pampanga!

My first time visiting this famous and beautiful Christmas Event in the Philippines - The 114th giant lantern festival in San Fernando, Pampanga! I was so amazed by the beautiful, huge, hand made parols! Also got try some local Christmas food at the festivals night market.
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I'm Susie and I was born in Hungary. Although I used to live in the Philippines for 4 years, I spent an unexpectedly long time back in my home country due to the Pandemic.
2022 has brought the change I've been waiting for and now I'm back in the Philippines to further explore the local life and the country's beautiful destinations, food, and culture.
Thank you for joining me on my adventures!

[@maximoaleguas3905]

Salamat sa pagmamahal mo sa Aming bansa Miss Susie, enjoy , stay safe and healthy

[@ricardomalelang8339]

Aside from beautiful parols that are blinking I also love to watched ur sweetness as a couple ,nice vlog again thank u

[@rodneylavitoria482]

Glad to see you the philippine lanterns... Enjoy...

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

They were so beautiful!!

[@rv_PH]

The thick wrap also helps to keep the tamales warm ü If you love suman and its variety as we do, pretty sure you'll enjoy the Suman Festival in Aurora Province on the 2nd week of Feb (next year!) Maligayang Pasko / Merry Christmas / Boldog Karácsonyt! Hope you had a good one!

[@AngryKittens]

Modern giant parols, I think, are computer-programmed. But the original old versions (before computers) are really impressive. They were just controlled by a rotating drum that connected different wires at different times. Also giant parols used to be made in different shapes. Before the "dancing" electric lights were added.

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

According to the events website it's still done the traditional way on the competition! They are using metal vires tho instead of traditional materials but it's so cool that it's controlled by the team behind the scenes!

[@AngryKittens]

@@SusieinthePhilippines Nice! I guess only the commercial ones are digital. The metal wires are traditional. I think the first electric giant parols were invented just before World War 2. It's only during the Spanish era when they were actually lit by candles.

[@rodneylavitoria482]

Tamalis is so yummy from Pampanga and tarkac provinces.. Bsta capampangan they have the best delicasies in the entire Philippines...

[@wintersojourn9356]

@Rodney Lavitoria Merry Xmas & HNY 2023, can you describe Filipino Tamalis? Is it a suman variation? Susie, did you try the local way of eating your leftover suman purchase? with sugar & powdered milk as the local man suggested? I wonder if he meant condensed milk...

[@rodneylavitoria482]

Tamalis is not a Suman though it also made from rice. Its a little bit salty with egg, pieces of chicken a bit of shrimp and some seasoning to taste. We in Pampanga and tarkac province we love to eat it with bread like pandesal or monay bun. Some has a little toppings of peanut too..

[@wintersojourn9356]

@@rodneylavitoria482 HNY! Ty for your reply. Sounds masarap.

[@dorellcaligagan2307]

You can also try going to Orchids Garden, Lakeshore or Capitol for Christmas destinations in Pampanga. If you're around Angeles City you can try the traditional tsokolate batirol drink with bibingka and puto bumbong in front of Holy Rosary Parish Church. They only sell these food during Christmas season.

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

Thank you for the recommendations! 😊

[@Liriqos]

I love how you narrate your stories...🥰

[@tonybondoc1649]

Merry x'mas to both of you!! Masarap ang mga pagkain diyan sa Pampanga!!!

[@ricmanalo434]

At least 3 of you foreign vloggers are there, there's the Whilst family and the Dodo explorer and you guys are vlogging at the same time

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

Too bad we didn't meet them!

[@joedimaunahan4525]

Enjoy your holidays. Coming next is a long hot summer. Keep safe always guys.

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

I don't mind I prefer the heat haha 🤗

[@Philosopino]

It's Sushi in the Philippines!

[@wintersojourn9356]

😆Good one🙌. 🍱👸🏻🗾&🤴🏻

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

Haha perfect 😂

[@angelotimonera7967]

Hi Susie and John, if you time going back to Manila, visit the Ayala Christmas Light Show in the evening at Makati. You'll be amazed with it!

[@jojobartlette6055]

God bless you both 💞 Merry Christmas 💞

[@ricardoestacio598]

Jan sa pampanga ang masasarap na ulam. Basta kapampangan masarap clang magluto.

[@renecater9174]

We have plenty Dialects spoken in our Country Philippines. So were ever you to stay you must Learn for yourself, haha so Good Luck Susie, Stay Safe and Enjoy... Thanks po..

[@oliviolanza1933]

There are plenty of local dialects spoken in the Philippines but Tagalog is generally spoken anywhere if locals in that area are familiar with it whether you go up north or down south. Jonathan take care of Susie o.k., we love watching your videos. ♥️😉

[@manbibar4299]

🤟✌️🥳That's a nice place to start your travel in Pampanga. There's also nearby places like the Air balloons festival in Clark, Ocean adventure in Subic, Nayong Pilipino Clark, Aqua Planet, Deca Wakeboarding Park, ATV ride in Mt. Pinatubo, Sandbox, Mt. Arayat, Zoocobia, etc... Just surf the Net for these places and choose what you want to see.❤️🇵🇭

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

So many of these are in our list! Thank you for the recommendations 😊 I've only been to Subic ocean adventure before. Mt Pinatubo is on the top of my bucket list

[@manbibar4299]

@@SusieinthePhilippines I hope you enjoy your stay here. Good luck and be safe. Dont forget to use OFF Lotion to ward of Dengue mosquitoes and buy a small cheap 3-fold umbrella to shield you from sun and rain.✌️🤟👍❤️

[@febochestbox5507]

Welcome to my Province Susie.

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

Thank you we had such a good experience there 😊

[@ricardoestacio598]

Pasyal kayo dto sa la union, bisitahin nyo ang surfing capital of the north. Location is sn juan la union. Deretso kayo norte madami maganda mapasyalan.

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

One of the spots I want to visit early next year!! 😊

[@brilate]

Beautiful couple ❤️❤️❤️

[@wintersojourn9356]

I don’t know if it’s Xmas Season, settling into married life (Newlyweds!💕), or some mysterious Hungarian-Filipino alchemy (plz bottle & sell it!), but you two look even more beautiful than usual. You r glowing, the both of you. I think I started noticing that in the vlog on the Dona Aurora Memorial Rd trip. But…you have always been gorgeous🤩, so not sure 🤔 why I think “Hey! J & S r lookin’ FABulous, darlings”

[@wintersojourn9356]

🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🌟🎄♥️💚

[@wintersojourn9356]

Correction: now I think it was actually “You look MARvelous, darlings!” Apologies to Mr Billy Crystal. I always chuckle remembering his character’s line from those skits…”It’s not how you feel, it’s how you LOOK!…& U LOOK MARvelous..”.

[@renpinero3171]

1st to comment ha ha. Maligayang Pasko sa inyong dalawa. Ingat pag uwi.

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

Maligayang pasko din po 😊🎄

[@tete0032]

Maganda mg parol @ lantern 🏮🏮

[@harlenenalaza2646]

Enjoy

[@akotolozano9708]

Hi kapampangan here..thanks for featuring our local festival and you dont have to learn kapampangan or dialect here just tagalog is enough.

[@mharkalvarez3465]

Welcome to city of giant lantern festival

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

Thank you 😊

[@nyarkybarrios]

I miss that place too! Is it still held at Paskuhan Village? Just a friendly reminder, hope you are doing some body workouts regularly to burn the carbs. Filipino food is highly rich in carbs, fats and salt. Though you and Jonathan don’t look like you get easily gain weight. Great video! Thanks for this and advance Merry Christmas!

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

It was held in Robinsons Starmills this time! I think the village is temporarily closed. We are pretty healthy and fit I would say haha. We walk / hike a lot and eat mostly vegetables. It's needed to be able to try all the yummy snacks haha Merry Christmas!! 🎄🎄😊

[@junsoriano9229]

😃👍❤️🇵🇭

[@stevenmercado5205]

🥰🥰❤️🤍💚👂🏻👂🏻🇭🇺🇭🇺

[@justchrissy743]

visit Iloilo idol :)

[@gamerwits4329]

Hey susie

[@izzy7ph519]

Who won the lantern contest? 😄

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

San Juan won 😊

[@wintersojourn9356]

@Izzy 7ph I liked the one that had woven palm/leaf in its design? Turned into a Santa image

[@jimtwotowns931]

There are more or less 175 dialects spoken in the philippines but the sad part of it is that some of these dialects are extinct already

[@JhanSnow]

They are not dialects, they are languages distinct from one another.

[@levzjhacinto6686]

Merryxmas

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

Merry Christmas!! 🎄😊

[@levzjhacinto6686]

Salamat

[@rjrich2322]

Dialect/dialects are variations of a language.If it's distinct then we can or should call it A LANGUAGE.🤫

[@markmadrigal9302]

Kung magpapataba sana si kuya ng kaunti ay siguradong lalabas pa pagka-pogi nya. Para mas makapantay pa sya sa katawan ng asawa nya. Bagay naman sila pero d maaalis sa iba na may masabi ang ilan sa kanila as couple...you know what i mean. May lalabas pa talaga si kuya sa kapogian nya kung medyo magdadagdag sya ng timbang. Merry xmas to all

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

I disagree and don't really care about fitting into standard, shallow ideas of what an "ideal" couple must look like. Luckily we don't receive judgmental comments as a couple except once I a while like this one.

[@lakerfanjr]

Ok but Kapampangans also speak Tagalog. It's taught in school along with English.

[@MrDac0964]

Surprised to see they have tamales in Pampanga, but it looks different than those made by Mexicans.

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

I think it's a completely different dish even though they have the same name! I just saw a video about the Mexican version 😊

[@MrDac0964]

@@SusieinthePhilippines yeah completely different and i love love mexican tamales, just had one for lunch today! 😀

[@mangwinnow]

Languages hindi dialect.

[@AngryKittens]

9:55 Jonathan! Don't do that. LOL. I don't think that kid was a beggar. Epal lang. It's bad to teach them that annoying someone long enough will make them give you things.

[@SusieinthePhilippines]

They were not annoying us, they were just playing and we even had a chat. So we offered them to share the food since we had too much anyway. 😊

[@AngryKittens]

@@SusieinthePhilippines Ah ok. I thought he was doing what I call "tourist-begging." My bad. :P

[@wintersojourn9356]

@Angry Kittens Hello AK! Thanks for relating a bit of the history of parol mechanics in your other reply in this comment section. Sounds kinda like a music box “rolling drum”. I’ve only seen the child part of this vlog once (so far😊), but since this topic arose I will chime in that I was quite struck by the confidence & innocence of the child, accepting the food. Seems like in my part of 🌎, children are hyper wary with strangers, as has sadly been our policy as well. There are obviously important reasons for it, while still trying to teach courtesy to our children. But I sorely miss the times you could happily accept “candy from a stranger”. Bad things happened always, but guess I was a lucky kid. One more observation, I recall Jonathan is very generous as he seems to always buy snacks for kids in your vlogs. I’ve heard him tell at least one street vendor, “give this to the children”, & the children weren’t even that near to he & Susie. That was heartwarming. But I understand your concern, AK.

[@AngryKittens]

@@wintersojourn9356 Yes, exactly like a music box drum. Except it connects wires. Imagine using that to program lights! As for the kid, I guess I didn't see the full interaction. Heh. I thought he was begging. I was just worried he was one of those kids who just basically annoys you until you give them something. Because that happens a lot nowadays, as more and more tourists come into the Philippines. I am strongly against giving those "pretend-beggars" anything. Because it teaches them the wrong thing. As one of those kids myself a looong time ago, I know that a lot of them are just doing it because they see others do it. They grow up thinking that if they just pester someone enough or look pitiful enough, they can get free stuff. Especially from foreigners who don't quite realize what's going on. They don't do it because they're hungry, pretty much all of them have a regular home and family. It's just an early lesson in scamming. And worse, the money you give them end up being used for worse things, like gambing. The real street kids who need help are few and far in between, because it's quite literally illegal. They're remanded to social services when caught.