Carnaval in Mazatlan


             Carnaval in Mazatlan

            colorful, loud, riotous

 Preparations include giant statues and thousands of chairs set up along the malecon. The main street is blocked off.
People dress up and camp out on the sidewalk a day ahead. The beaches are crowded.
 
The beaches are more crowded.
Lots of soldiers dressed in hot uniforms with guns. Do we feel safe now?
Hours of elaborate floats with nearly naked, gyrating dancers
and fireworks.
 
 



 

Comments

  1. NicoleMarch 4, 2025 at 6:37 AM

    How colorful and festive! Could you watch the parade from your balcony?

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
    First Carnaval statue put up Lit up puppies: January 25th, 2025 A pudding-consistency gingerbread dessert.                     Steve on the 15 kilometer malecon (boardwalk)                                    Lots of grafitti-like signs:                                                   Doggies lit up for a night walk.     Nephew, Rhett Farber, visited with his fun face masks to enliven the "old folks at home". The guys said this was they're best fried fish ever:   We had to visit the traditional colonial cathedral, of course. We tried to talk Rhett into renting one of these outrageous vehicles. Even the generation after us is too old to be temp...
Read more
Image
We're in Guaudalajara, 2nd largest city in Mexico, a medically oriented city. We're getting treatments from a wonderful Orthopedic Surgeon who is giving us shots. First he gives a combo of hyaluronic acid, colagen, ozone, and dmso. Then, if and when our system is ready, he gives us stem cell shots. My shoulder pain has decreased radically; Steve also feels enormous relief. We're old friends with Regina Ochoa whose family was one of the original movers and shakers in Guadalajara. Her father was one of the founders of the country club - very wealthy until a year or two of drought when he lost a lot. Regina's family lived in a home next door to the country club. Every day her mother would tell Regina and her 5 sisters and 2 brothers to go over to the country club in the afternoon. Now there is a high rise where her home once stood. Lots of expensive high rises line the streets leading up to the club. Maty still belongs to the club. After a certain age and so many years of...
Read more