ADB delegates take ‘fun’ Pampanga tour

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — The delegates in the 45th Meeting of the Board of Governors of Asian Development Bank (ADB) experienced fun in the province, said Department of Tourism (DOT) Central Luzon director Ronnie Tiotuico.
“The 45th Meeting of the Board of Governors of Asian Development Bank (ADB) at the PICC (Philippine International Convention Center) which was attended by some 5,000 delegates from 67 member countries ended on May 5 with a ‘More Fun’ sightseeing and experiential tour of the sights and sites of Pampanga,” Tiotuico said.
Tiotuico said some 22 delegates and their companions were treated to a fun-filled day of creating awareness about what the province of Pampanga offers in the realm of travel and tourism, history, culinary arts, and trade and industry.
A few hours before the visitors arrived in Pampanga, some 50 policemen were already dispatched in strategic areas leading to the towns of Bacolor and Guagua.
Members of the Sinukwan Performing Arts showed the ADB delegates some of the native dances.
DOT personnel greeted the guests with sampaguita leis courtesy of the provincial tourism office, Tiotuico said.
A visit to the San Guillermo Church in the historic town of Bacolor awed delegates as they discovered how some 67,000 Bacoloreños struggled to overcome the challenges of Mt. Pinatubo’s eruption in 1991.
“Delegates were amazed by the community effort, as explained by Vice Mayor Atty. Jun Canlas, in rebuilding their half-buried church to become the site of frequent visitation from local and foreign tourists including the people’s unwavering campaign to start up its social development through the conduct of the Makatapak Festival (barefoot festival) now well organized more than 20 years after the volcanic eruption,” Tiotuico said.
The Betis Galleria in Guagua town also gave the delegates an on-the-spot practical lesson in the Kapampangan brand of wood carving to create a variety of religious icons, according Tiotuico.
The instructional guide was well handled by no less than the recipient of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Merit on Ecclesiastical Art, Wilfredo T. Layug, himself a Kapampangan and an advocate of community-based training and education in local craftsmanship to perpetuate the local tradition beyond his lifetime, Tiotuico said.
“Mr. Layug likes to be called a sculptor, painter and maker/designer of retablo. To help save the environment, this eclectic graduate from Seville, Spain has turned his incomparable competence to terracota or simply the art of handcrafting icons out of earth clay. It took him only 20 minutes to mold a delegate’s face out of terracotta,” the DOT official added.
The final stop at the Betis Craft was even more “fun-tastic” as the talented couple, Myrna and Boy Bituin with their three entrepreneurial siblings led the family in welcoming the guests.
The couple prepared a sumptuous native lechon, sisig topped with the so-called “ebon pugo” and many more local dishes.
A tour of the furniture factory and well-appointed showroom reveals some interesting facts: the furnishings on the famous TV show “Sex in the City” were done by Betis Craft including the bed of singer and songwriter Boy George.
Their daughters have succeeded their parents in the business of crafting Betis-designed wood products now exported all over the world.
The Sinukwan Performing Arts, directed by Peter De Vera, gave the visitors a colorful rendition of native songs and dances featuring traditional practices during fiestas and celebrated events in the province.
The famous culinary artist the province has ever had, Lilian Borromeo gave the guests a quick but lasting impression on how to prepare and muster the art of making local pastries like Sanikulas (sweet biscuit named after St. Nicolas as the saint of all bakers) complemented by her skillful use of templates or mold patterned after the images of saints and the Virgin Mary.
Multi-awarded Roland Quiambao also gave the guests a lesson on how giant lanterns are being made, using a mini-lantern complemented by an electrically operated rotor that operates the multi-colored design as shown during the lantern festival in December of every year.
The ADB delegates expressed gratitude to the Kapampangans for the festive reception during their five-hour stay in the province.
They even vowed to spread their experiences and the good news about the province when they fly back home, Tiotuico said.
Tiotuico expressed his congratulations to Governor Lilia Pineda, Bacolor parish priest Fr. Jess Manabat, Pampanga Police Director Edgardo Tinio, Bacolor Vice Mayor Canlas, De Vera and Arwin Lingat for accommodating the guests and assisting the DOT in the event.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2012/05/08/adb-delegates-take-fun-pampanga-tour-220370

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