KARERA NG KALABAW

The carabaos compete in a friendly race, each pulling a bamboo carriage on a 400-meter course. These carabaos were trained daily for several weeks before the festival begins.

Aside from the kneeling of the carabaos and the carabao race, which are considered as the highlight of the festival, there are other things that are equally entertaining such as the marching bands where the audience are treated with the majorette’s dancing and baton twirling exhibition, the children’s drum and lyre band and the street dancers who takes center stage and exhibited various folk dances which usually delights both tourist and locals alike.
 

The Carabao, the "National Animal"

The National Animal of the Philippines is the carabao, the Asian Water Buffalo!

If you travel through the countryside, you sure will discover the carabao. 

The carabao (water buffalo) is still a very important draught-animal on the

rice-fields. The carabao is also used for pulling activities in the forest. If not working, the water buffalo  can be seen while it is resting, many times in a place of water and mud. That's a standard activity of the animal too!