The annual event starts with a colorful fluvial parade with decorated motorboats and colorful bancas roving around the Pampanga River. The fluvial procession is called “libad bangka” by the Apalitenos.

Making the fluvial parade livelier are the spectators by the river bank shores, waving their guava branches at Apung Iru while the pagoda passes. It is also a tradition to do this and keep the guava leaves as a doubly effective medicine for stomach aches (probably because of Apo Iru’s blessing).

The celebration will end with the ritual “Pamanatad,” wherein Apung Iru is brought back to its shrine in barangay Capalangan in another fluvial procession via the same river routes.

                                              

-Thousands of devotees and tourists gathered to celebrate and pay tribute to the town’s patron saint.

VIVA APUNG IRU!!

                                                 

St. Peter Apostle Church 

-This is located at San Juan Apalit Pampanga. This where the mass for Apung Iru happen.

And before the fiest come they are having 9 days of mass or what we called 'Nobena'.

  -The feast is celebrated annually from June 28-30 highlighted by a fluvial festival and 

street dancing.