LOOK: Lucban, Quezon’s vivid Pahiyas Festival

The hospitality and creativity of the residents of Lucban, Quezon were laid out in colorful splendor last Friday and Saturday, when the town kept local tradition alive and gave thanks for bountiful harvests with the Pahiyas Festival.

Thousands of tourists came from near and far, with thick crowds forming around local bakeries, restaurants, and souvenir shops and the houses adorned with flowers, fruit, vegetables and the colorful kiping.

Curiously, there were no passenger buses to ferry tourists to and from Lucban. Some motorists had to leave their vehicles outside the town's limits and then walk from there to the streets of Lucban.

The only available means of  public transport were a handful of commuter vans, some jeepneys as long and wide as small buses, and scores of tricycles. There were no buses serving Lucban. Buses ran only along the main highway running through Lucena City. Commuters going to Lucban had to either take the jeeps or the tricycles at the terminal near the intersection of the national highway and the diversion road.