Todos Santos Festival 2003

Todos Santos is a cozy, high attitude (2.470m) village in Guatemala were all the people still wear their colorful traditional Mayan clothes.

November 1st is the main day in the festival; the horse race day! The aim of the horserace is to get as drunk as possible and ride back and forth between two points with colorful scarfs, clothes and hats. The riders scream, drink, ride with hands outstretched, drink, fall off the horses, drink, whip the horses with (for a short while) live chickens and drink some more. Dead drunk locals are scattered around unconscious in the mud. At night we rocked the local disco.

The next day was Dias de los Muertes (Day of the Dead). More drinking, fireworks, dancing and xylophone music, but this time on the cemetery.

A very cool and memorable weekend!

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• todos
• santos
• guatemala
• central
• america
• festival
• race
• horses
• drink
• drunk
• maya
• helge
• travel
• sepultura
• Kaiowas

[gabriellemichaela]

and your point was?

[helgeroe]

In memory of a great weekend in Guatemala. And your point was?

[zzzackzzz]

Normally the people there dont like to be taken on movies and even to take fotos..

[antiguaguate87]

Guatemala es unica.

[beherit15]

that's a kind of drunk horse race

[gabriellemichaela]

I am sorry.I apologize.