Majayjay Day is celebrated every year on October 2 as part of the
celebration of the founding anniversary of the town. It brags off farm
and agricultural products produced primarily from the 40 barangays
composing it. This day has been given a new life and breathing in its
new brand name as AniLinang Festival.
The 1st AniLinang Festival
was held on October 2, 2016 as an initiative of the local government to
promote the town's laid-back, and peaceful way of life seen in its
agricultural produce as well as in their indigenous cuisines.
Majayjay, Laguna - AniLinang Festival
The Municipality of Majayjay (Filipino: Bayan ng Majayjay) is a 4th class municipality in the province of Laguna, Philippines. It is located at the foot of Mount Banahaw, and stands 1,000 feet above sea level. One hundred twenty kilometers south of Manila, it is bounded by the municipality of Magdalena on the north-west, by Lucban in Quezon province on the southeast, by Luisiana on the north-east, and by Liliw on the west. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 26,547 people. in 4,978 households.
If Cavinti, Laguna has the Pagsanjan Falls, Majayjay has the Taytay Falls.
Others call it the Majayjay Falls or even Imelda Falls, because
ex-First Lady Imelda Marcos financed the promotion of tourism in this
place. It is a two-storey high falls located in a remote scenery where
the forestry is abundant. To reach Taytay Falls, one has to go down the
stone steps leading to a kilometer-long trail. Constructed in 2008,
during the past, reaching Taytay Falls is a very hard task, as there
were no marked trails during that time. Recently, the World Bank has
sponsored the promotion of tourism in Taytay Falls.
Majayjay is geographically a landlocked area situated in the
southernmost part of the province of Laguna. It nestles at the foot of
the mystical Mt. Banahaw, and due to its higher altitude at some 2,700+
ft above sea level, the town makes for a good vacation destination
during summer season in the Philippines. It was once branded as the Summer Capital of the Philippines
300-400 years ago during Spanish era where most of the huge names in
the Spanish colonial Philippines visited this humble place. Other sights
along the streets are the remnants of the said era for Spanish-inspired
houses still stand at random key locations mostly in the town square.
Famous and affluent families then still have their ancestral houses
maintained.
Majayjay, Laguna - AniLinang Festival