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| LANZONES
FESTIVAL October 25-28 Camiguin, Northern Mindanao |
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A celebration of bountiful harvest celebrated every year in October with a weekend of street dancing, parade and pageants in the town of Mambajao. This festival includes an exhibit of agri-cottage industry products, barangay beautification, indigenous sports, tableau of local culture, grand parade of the lanzones, which is the golden and extra sweet fruit, found in the entire province of Camiguin. |
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| Lanzones is a tropical fruit that grows abundantly on the north-central coast of Mindanao. It is said that the sweetest lanzones comes from Camiguin. Portrayed in the photographs below are typical lanzones trees found in the province of Camiguin. The lanzones fruit, which has a pale brown skin and sweet translucent flesh, is also shown. This fruit ripens sometime during the third week of October. |
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