MassKara Festival is alternately known as the ‘festival of smiles’ due to the tradition of the masks that the people wear donning smiles to represent the message of happiness. Because of the festival, Bacolod is also designated as the ‘City of Smiles’. The festival still today represents a time of the year when the people can take their sadness or any pain that they are experiencing and ‘throw it away’ as they did all those years ago when it first began. This is their new beginning or a fresh start. It is boasted as a magnificent sight to see and something that everyone should try to experience at some point. It is also touted as the longest festival being a month in duration in which there are multiple celebrations, parties, gatherings in honor of the theme.
The MassKara Festival is a beautiful, symbolic gesture of the type of resiliency the people of Bacolod hold. Flights from Manila to Bacolod may be difficult to get during that time of the year with the popularity of the festival. It is certainly worth a try to book well enough ahead of time that you get to see such an amazing event.
