HERITAGE CITY OF VIGAN: HOW DID BIGUEÑOS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS DURING THE PANDEMIC

     The Christmas in Heritage City of Vigan is started at "Ber months". Christmas is very special and getting ready to celebrate especially in the Heritage City of Vigan, Bigueños always prepare for Christmas they make their houses colorful with some Christmas lights on them. Christmas Season in Vigan City really hits differently, Bigueños usually celebrate it with full of effort. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 strikes and Bigueños we're not able to celebrate the event like how they celebrated before the pandemic. 

      Before the pandemic strikes, a lot of tourists are celebrating their Christmas in the Heritage City of Vigan. Most of them are family, friends, and couples, but all of a sudden the pandemic started to spread, and the Christmas in Heritage became more lonely and sad instead of joy and happiness. Last December 24-25 last year, many people felt a little nostalgic feeling, including me because I and my friends Celebrate Christmas in the Heritage City of Vigan and join the different activities regrading to the celebration of Christmas. The COVID-19 pandemic is really a life-changing experience, we are not able to celebrate different events like Christmas, different events and holidays that we have been celebrating for multiple years. Instead of celebrating happily, with full of excitement and enjoyment in that said event, some people are in their own houses celebrating the event with unusual feeling and unusual way, because of the fear of covid-19 may afflict them. In celebrating Christmas in the Heritage City of Vigan in New Normal, there are a lot of challenges people were faced, the local vendors who are expecting that many tourists will come and visit are disappointed, because usually every celebration of Christmas in the Heritage City of Vigan, there's a lot of tourists that will buy local souvenirs and Products and purchase a hotel room to stay with to celebrate Christmas here in Heritage which will help our local government and vendors are lessen because of the pandemic during the Christmas.

 

     Therefore the Bigueños experienced the Christmas season during the pandemic in the Heritage City of Vigan is great unlike how we celebrate Christmas last 2020. In the 2021 economy and tourists are back and local government and local vendors are Seems a bit happy because it helps them both and the tourist and local tourist experience a new normal and a little bit of nostalgic feeling because we experience Christmas the way we usually do.

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