Reyna ng Aliwan 2018 Candidate - Micaela Ernee Manuel, Halamanan Festival of Guiguinto, Bulacan.
Guiguinto, known as the Heart of Bulacan, celebrates Halamanan Festival every first month of the year, a weeklong celebration as the Garden City of the North, Micaela Ernee Manuel is wearing a goddess of environment costume with a modern touch of Filipinana with accents of artificial plants, leaves, flowers, twigs, butterflies and birds, on her hand is a scepter with St. Ildefonso of Toledo painting, the Patron Saint of Guiguintenos.
The headdress is decorated with floral plants especially birtds of paradise which is present in the logo of Halamanan Festival. Birds represent hope among us. As long as plants and trees are there, there is life.(Text from Aliwan Fiesta FB Page)
