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Purple happiness People were really going crazy. Between the nakedness and the free stuff, even the rain couldn’t rain on their parade, so to speak. Arms outstretched and wide-eyed the flocks waited for little advertising trinkets flying off the passing floats: empty cups with huge beer insignia, plastic tubes filled with air and adorned with [...]
Viva el carnaval! Today the streets filled up with people dressed in traditional Yucatecan clothes – women wearing huilipes (traditional dresses) with flowers in their hair and men dressed all in white. Other styles of dresses and costumes also made their appearance and there was a happy, festive atmosphere everywhere we went. It seemed that [...]
Happy despite it raining on their parade The Desfile de Bachata (Party Parade) flew through the city with the rain. It was pleasantly cool in the morning and the drizzle started shortly before noon. It rained moderately yet constantly throughout the whole parade and the sky cleared up just as the colorful troops were out [...]
Tired feathered angel Zoe went out to the parade and met our wonderful hosts there, Miriam and Enrique, who waved her over and gave her a nice seat in the first row to get some good pictures. Carnival is a worldwide celebration of excess and craziness celebrated particularly by Christians and most famously in the [...]
Little sweetie at the Mérida carnival Mérida will be hosting a week-long series of colorful and happy parades and fiestas beginning last night with the Quema del mal humor (The burning of bad humor) to get everyone off to a happy start. The Mérida carnival is advertised in the local tourist magazines as one one [...]