Saturday, October 10, 2009

Que alguien me expliiiique...

What is it about Guatemalan festivals and people dressed up as furry animals dancing to merengue? In San Lucas today there was one respresenting a canine Osama Bin Laden complete with orange Guatánamo jump suit!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I really like your blog. The dance you refer to is a convite. There's nothing religious about it (though is is performed during the fiestas patronales), ergo the weird pop-culture costumes. a convite is more culturally related to Samba schools than the Baile de la Conquista. I love them. I remember almost swooning when I saw Donald Duck dancing with Daisy and Osama bin Laden dancing with the Devil to the marimba in a crowded street in the highlands. It just doesn't get better than that.