Parol: Christmas star of the Philippines

Here they do have artificial trees and Santa, but the symbol of Christmas is the Christmas star:


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but they can get really fancy:


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as I mentioned, we have a reform mayor who is busy tidying up the place.
So here is our city and the decorations in the park down the street.




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complete with a night market for eating (the main palenke is a block down, and also opwn at night).
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the Philippines in our areas has become much more affluent in the last ten years since I moved here, and the affluence even extends to the nearby rural areas.