This
festival is a toast to the hot spring bath of Los Baños coinciding with
the founding anniversary of the Municipality of Los Banos, which
features science discovery exhibit, beauty pageant, street dancing
competition and Makiling Quest Adventure Race.
Bañamos is an annual festival that is truly unique to Los Baños. It
showcases a shower of nature’s bounties and scientific discoveries. This
is a kind of celebration that will appropriately trace the Los Baños’
history & explain its current standing as “the Science and Nature
City. It features civic parade, street dancing, beauty pageant, the Los
Baños Science Community open house and exhibits, Mt. Makiling
eco-challenge, palarong pinoy, buco pie fest, sayawang bayan and other
events. The War of Our Fathers, Los Baños Flower and Garden Show, UP Los
Baños, Orchid and Garden Show are the other major events celebrated
here in Los Baños. Los Banos, Laguna - Bañamos Festival
Los Baños is a first class urban municipality in the province of Laguna, Philippines.
According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 112,008
inhabitants. It has a total land area of 56.5 square kilometers and is
bordered on the south and south-west by Mount Makiling, on the north by Laguna de Bay, on the north-west by Calamba City and on the east by the town of Bay. The town is located 63 kilometres (39 mi) southeast of Manila and is accessible via the South Luzon Expressway.
The municipality lies on the northern slopes of the long dormant volcano Mount Makiling and is known among tourists for its hot spring resorts. Los Baños also hosts the University of the Philippines, along with other foreign and local and international research centers, such as the International Rice Research Institute, the ASEAN Center for Biodiversity, the Philippine Rice Research Institute,
Philippine Carabao Center at UPLB, and SEAMEO-SEARCA, making the town a
temporary home for tens of thousands of both local and foreign
undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and support staff.
Aside from its importance in academics, science and research, Los
Baños is a well-known tourist destination. Because of the town's
proximity to Metro Manila, Los Baños' hot spring
resorts are frequent weekend or summer getaways for residents of the
vast metropolis and tourists from other places in the Philippines and
abroad. Tourists who visit Los Baños also come to the several native
delicacies stores in the town to buy the town's famous Buko pie (coconut meat pie) as well as a home-grown brand of chocolate cake.
Los Baños is nestled between two of Southern Luzon's most dominant geographical features - Mount Makiling to the south and south-west and Laguna de Bay to the north.
In fact, Laguna de Bay's southernmost tip is at Barangay Bambang, and
Barangay Bagong Silang is already halfway up Mount Makiling. Both the
mountain and the lake are volcanic features - Makiling being a
potentially active volcano whose geothermal activities gave birth to the
hot springs after which the town was named, and Laguna de Bay being the
filled-in caldera of a massive prehistoric volcano. Los Banos, Laguna - Bañamos Festival
